Benedict Cumberbatch plays Doctor Strange in Marvel Universe, and he recalls his reaction to a surprise the studios gave last year.
During last year’s Comic-Con panel, his co-star Robert Downey Jr. came out as Victor von Doom.
In an interview with Variety, the British actor revealed he did not know about this earlier and texted the studio’s boss Kevin Feige: “‘What the ****?’ And then quickly added, ‘Good what-the ****. I mean, good what-the-****.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he reflected on his approach to taking the mystic processor, sharing what he learned from Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Homecoming.
“I learned a lot by seeing how at ease and improvisatory they are,” the Academy-nominated actor said. “It’s hard because you have this huge apparatus around you, but it’s so important.”
He also shared that he bonded with Robert over their shared history of playing different versions of Sherlock Holmes.
“We had a gas about being the two Sherlocks on set,” he recounted. “But there was some line of dialogue where someone turns to us and says, ‘No shit, Sherlock.'”
“Well, we took out all that meta stuff. We just said, ‘No, no, no. Better to leave that for the fan fiction,'” he concluded.
