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Benedict Cumberbatch on Studying Lizards to Portray Smaug in ‘The Hobbit’ and Sort of Working Again with ‘Sherlock’ Co-Star Martin Freeman

I don’t think any actor can claim to have had the year that Benedict Cumberbatch has had.  Cumberbatch starred in Star Trek Into Darkness, 12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, and, through motion capture, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (okay, there was also The Fifth Estate, but you

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Laura Linney’s strategy to her ‘Fifth Estate’ role: “I really approached it from a storytelling standpoint”

Laura Linney is currently in theaters in The Fifth Estate about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his rise to power as a free-speech activist. The story raises many complicated issues about information and how it should be distributed even when it affects global security. The Big C actress talked to

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Benedict Cumberbatch Reveals the Physical Transformations He Underwent to Play Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate’

2013’s hottest actor in Hollywood is on a winning streak right now. With career-making turns in August: Osage County, 12 Years a Slave and The Fifth Estate, Benedict Cumberbatch is making himself a household name. In a recent interview with Moviefone at the Toronto Film Festival, the actor revealed the

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Benedict Cumberbatch talks doing Motion-Capture for ‘The Hobbit’: “It’s very freeing, once you put the suit on and the sensors”

Benedict Cumberbatch will soon be known for playing two famous literary characters—Sherlock Holmes in the BBC television series, Sherlock, and Smaug the dragon in the new film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

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Benedict Cumberbatch talks ‘Sherlock’: “I’m much slower than him. I have to rev up an engine that needs a lot of oil and concentration and focus”

Benedict Cumberbatch has gained the attention of worldwide audiences in Oscar-nominated films such as War Horse and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. However, his most defining role, to date, can be argued to be that of “Sherlock Holmes” in the hit BBC series, Sherlock.

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