Benedict Cumberbatch plays Doctor Strange. (Photo : Twitter/@Anythingbatch)
"Doctor Strange" star Benedict Cumberbatch recently threw shade at his character on the upcoming movie.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the "Sherlock Holmes" actor said that playing the role of the Doctor in the movie was not part of his bucket list.
This does not mean though that he's not happy to be cast as Stephen Strange.
During the interview, Cumberbatch revealed how he grew to love Western logic and Eastern mysticism.
When he was just 19 years old, Cumberbatch went to eastern India to teach English to Tibetan monks.
"It was a very unfair exchange. Basically, they taught me reams, fathoms, more than I could possibly begin to teach them. I became interested in the meeting point between Western logic and Easter mysticism," he said.
Meanwhile, he added, "I knew it was on their slate. I knew it was coming up, so I got invested in it and I was interested. What happens here in this origin story is, Strange realizes the power he has within his body is not about his body. It's something that's beyond the causal-temporal-linear-reality that he knows so well as a surgeon. We come from this very casual world into this mystical, magical world of other realms and sorcery," he said.
In other news, Cumberbatch revealed that filming his scenes didn't come easy for him.
"It was like, okay, I've got to keep throwing these poses, these spells, these rune-casting things, everything he does physically... But, then, by the end, it was great. It's like anything, you just have to experiment," he said.
"Doctor Strange" is slated to hit theaters in the United States on Nov. 4, 2016.
