There were a lot of actors linked to the role of Doctor Strange. What made Benedict perfect?
I think it was a combination of his real-world intelligence – to play someone who is brilliant you have to have an edge of intellectual brilliance, which Benedict has. I believe if Benedict committed himself in real life to neurosurgery, he’d be the top neurosurgeon in London in New York.
Also, he hadn’t shown it yet, but I just suspected from watching his previous work that he could be an action star, and I was right about that.