![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, in acting, as in life, the most worthwhile ventures are often the toughest. It has to be very, very worthwhile for me to leave home." "So, whatever work, which is a huge deal, it offers me a great deal of life experience and opportunity, nothing, as anyone with children knows, compares to that." "The priorities I have in my life, there's nothing quite like my family in my work life," he said. But lately he's been playing a different kind of hero, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And that, and making both of them proud really, is a sort of essential ingredient to what motivates me day-to-day."Ĭumberbatch got an Oscar nod for "The Imitation Game," as the British mathematician who helped crack the Nazis' secret code. ![]() And just to give that level of blessing, that ego-less love, it floored me. It's such a huge thing for a man to say to his son, or for any parent to say to any child. "I mean, yeah, every time I say that, I say – I get a lump in my throat. And I support you, and I can't wait to see what you do.' Dad sort of got hold of my shoulders and he went, 'Look, you're better at this than I ever was or ever will be. "And there was this one moment in a car park after I'd played Salieri in 'Amadeus' at university. He has managed to make them proud, and they let him know it early on. And I threw it all back in their face by becoming an actor!" Cumberbatch said, "They gave me a very securing upbringing, and offered me every opportunity with my education, with their upbringing of me, through love, and a lot of resources, to give me the choice to do anything but be an actor, to do something a little bit more secure, less peripatetic. Yeah, it was like a sort of 12-year overnight success in 90 minutes."īut it seems that he'd been waiting for it all his life.īorn to a pair of working actors, young Benedict considered law school for a moment, before following his parents onto the stage. ![]()
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