Benedict Cumberbatch: Actors Are ‘Really F—ing Weird Creatures. We Want to Be in Extreme Situations Sometimes to Tell a Real Story’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Benedict Cumberbatch touched down at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance ahead of the world premiere of his new drama film, “The Thing With the Feathers.” Written and directed by Dylan Southern from the book “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers” by Max Porter, the movie casts Cumberbatch as a grieving father struggling to raise his two sons after the sudden loss of his wife.

During the interview with Variety’s Brent Lang, the “Doctor Strange” actor said the father he plays is perhaps the closest he’s come to seeing his real self on screen.

He explained: “We’re really fucking weird creatures, us actors. We want to be in extreme situations sometimes to tell a real story.

And it does tell something universal. This character is as near to me as any others I’ve played, to be honest. The middle class, the father, being in northwest London.