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Benedict Cumberbatch talks Doctor Strange's size on the new Avengers: Infinity War poster
Was his character short-changed?

Benedict Cumberbatch is beyond excited for the release of Avengers: Infinity War.

However, some diehard fans of his alter ego Doctor Strange aren't happy with the movie poster for the new film.

During an interview with the actor on Good Morning Britain today (April 19), Richard Arnold asked the star for his thoughts.

"Oh there's always a big hoo ha about that," Benedict said. "Don't forget about me, you know."

But the star made it clear that the poster certainly wasn't an issue for him as he went on to praise his co-star Robert Downy Jnr.

Revealing what it was like to work with the Iron Man star, he said: "It was a good meetings of egos and facial hair. We don't kiss but we have similar tache things going on, goatee vibes. It was really daunting standing on set with those characters as well as those actors."

Benedict continued: "[This film] is mind-blowingly epic. It is not underselling it to say that it is one of the grandest, most exciting movie events of the last decade. It feels like it has been building and building and building to this."

Earlier this week, new details came to light about Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange heading into Infinity War.

It turns out he's a lot more powerful than we realised.

If you cast your mind back to 2016's Doctor Strange, you'll remember that Strange becomes the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto – aka the Time Stone – and the climax of the movie centres on the creation of a time loop.

Strange enters the Dark Dimension and uses that time loop to 'bargain with' Dormammu, ultimately being killed again and again as Dormammu gets more and more frustrated by his inability to break the cycle, before giving in to Strange's demand to leave Earth so that Dormammu can escape Strange's trap.

But as well as preventing Dormammu from taking over Earth, it turns out Doctor Strange's time in the Dark Dimension served another purpose, as Strange was given a lot of time to experiment with his powers.

In response to a fan questioning how long exactly Strange was in that time loop, screenwriter C Robert Cargill confirmed it was long enough that Strange gained "even more mastery over his powers".

"We left it intentionally vague with room to address it later – but it wasn't just a few minutes, I'll tell you that," Cargill wrote. "He was there long enough to gain even more mastery over his powers."

While the exact length of time isn't specified – days, weeks, months, years?! – the fact that Strange was there so long not only explains why he was very skilled in the use of magic in last year's Thor: Ragnarok, but also suggests that he's one of the more powerful characters heading into Infinity War too.

Bring on the superhero showdown.

Good Morning Britain is on ITV, weekdays at 6am.