TIFF 2017 | The Current War: Benedict Cumberbatch has no vanity about his characters
Benedict Cumberbatch, who will be seen playing Thomas Edison in upcoming The Current War, believes that he will leave it to others to debate whether the light bulb inventor was a genius scientist or a robber baron.
Talking at a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival, Cumberbatch said, “It’s deadly to judge your character if you’re portraying someone you have to inhabit with a certain understanding and empathy.”
Adding, “I leave it to other people to judge characters I play. I find it very hard not to be defensive. I have no vanity about my characters.”
“It was interesting to examine the poisons of fame and how it affects a character + the human instinct for this role” — Benedict Cumberbatch pic.twitter.com/tKLy30wyzV
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2017
In order to inhabit a character like Edison Benedict Cumberbatch could not judge but instead sympathized to fully give life to the role. pic.twitter.com/VicfWrCHw2
— TIFF (@TIFF_NET) September 10, 2017
He also expressed sympathy for Edison as he battled the same challenges of celebrity that Cumberbatch knows as a stage and screen star.
The Sherlock star also shared that it was interesting …read more
