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street roots 8 Jan. 31,2014 Benedict Cumberbatc He shot to stardom playing Sherlock Holmes, but lately he’s all over the silver screen, including last sum m er’s blockbuster ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness, ’ portraying Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate, ’ and a starring turn in ‘12 Years a Slave. ’ P H O T O B Y S T E P H A N IE B ER G ER BY ADRIAN LOBB a hell of a lot of running recently. It’s C O N T R IB U T IN G W R IT E R because I’m playing Alan Turing, who, as herlock lives! And judging by viewing well as being an absolute genius, was a very figures in excess of 10 million and good marathon runner. It’s great, though. I Twitter going wild to the tune of love i t Yep, I’m playing yet another brainy 260,000 tweets per hour during the episode guy. “The Empty Hearse” on New Year’s Day, the return of Benedict Cumberbatch’s A. L.: And is this role stretching ypur mind lanky sociopathic detective will remain | | as well as your body? highlight of 2014. For the 37-year-old actor, it marks the B. C.: Yes, like you wouldn’t believe! As start of a big, big year. At Charlotte Street well as running pretty much all the time, Hotel in central London midway through I’m carrying around thé môst ridiculous filming the series finale, he looks more like selection of books at the moment. But it’s ; a. wealthy holidaymaker than one of the great, and I’m learning,so much. I’m loving g planet’s busiest actors. He bounds in, it. I hope the plates keep spinning, so that I wearing a crisp white T-shirt, smart blue can keep finding these interesting roles and shorts and blue cloth cap, singing and carve out a little niche for myself in the film loosely dancing to the music coming out of world. And, you know, keep the work varied. a pair of massive headphones... I would love to get hack on the stage. S Adrian Lobb: How are you today, Benedict? A. L.: So Sherlock returned on New Year’s Day. This season is about fleshing him out? Benedict Cumberbatch: I’m actually feeling it a bit this morning. I’ve been doing B. C.: There is a lot more'backstory. There are a lot more scenes where you find out why he is the way he is. The first conversation I ever had with Steven Moffat about Sherlock was asking: “How did this happen?” His response was: “What do you mean, he’s just brilliant” But someone isn’t just brilliant, there is something that has happened. I didn’t want Sherlock being easily labeled as being either on the spectrum of "1 kn o w Stow h a ckf 1 am to be Asperger’s or paid to be In a position to have autism. a voice, do my work and also The reality of those problems fast the fact that it's really good and difficulties is fnn. Ton owe society a little hit very different in for that." each individual case. It would have been lazy for us to just say: “Oh, that is what he is,” So that is examined a lot more in this series. After two years away, he is rusty about human relationships, especially with his best friend and with London. And it takes time for him to get back on his game. Will See CUMBERBATCH, p a g e 9
