Sunday 20 November 2011

Benedict Cumberbatch on filming Sherlock

"Rufus, who’s a mate of mine, gets Italy in spring, Ken Branagh gets Sweden in summer, and I get Cardiff and Newport in January and February,” Cumberbatch says mock-grumpily. Some days it was so cold he had to clasp hot water bottles to his cheeks in order to articulate Holmes’s quickfire deductions. A mark of his professionalism is that he soldiered on, believing he had a touch of flu, when in fact he’d caught pneumonia and had a temperature of 39.4 degrees. Seeing the producers blanch at the thought of shutting down production made him realise what a big deal Holmes was

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