Doctor Strange: 10 Reasons Benedict Cumberbatch Is Perfect
9. ...And He Can Do Genre
That said, Benedict Cumberbatch is no stranger to the, ahem, less refined things. Sure, he's performed Shakespeare at Regents Park Open Air Theatre and was dynamite as both Frankenstein and The Monster in Danny Boyle's production at the Royal National Theatre, but he also does a lot of big silly genre films as well. No doubt you've seen the motion capture footage of him "playing" the dragon Smaug in the last Hobbit film, where he gets to chew the scenery with a rather impressive set of gnashers once Weta have done their work. For a serious man who often plays serious roles, Doctor Strange might look like a bit of a misstep. Can he handle being in what will, to all intents and purposes, be a superhero film? Is that really in him? Well, yeah. In the past few years he's been in The Hobbit, played Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, and is set to do a voice in Penguins of Madagascar, of all things. Cumberbatch is just at home in his genre roles as his more po-faced dramatic fare plus, what's Sherlock but a superhero without a cape?
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