Situations where what I say echoes much further than what is healthy. I would love to just have the work do the talking. We’re in positions where peo… - Benedict Cumberbatch

It's part of the job to mythologise the experience, and you don't have to do that with this one. It's as easy as breath to talk about this one.

It's time to start playing the smallest violin in the world for me right now. I was very lucky because I had other people's pets. I was like an uncle or godparent. You get all the benefits without any of the trauma. We had animals at school that we tended to, I don't know how they survived. I didn't go through the trauma of seeing them as babies and then going through their life cycle with them and the inevitable end. I love, love, love, love, love dogs. Cats, on the other hand... Don't ever do a film with them. They just wander around looking really unimpressed with everything. I love them, but working with them is really tough.

There have enough people who been vilified in American politics to have American villains now, but it is a very American thing, to have British villains.