While talking to Variety previously, he said that roles like The Thing with Feathers are something bold and stories like these need to be told. This is the reason Benedict Cumberbatch tries his best to finance them.
He loves the artistic part of the cinema and this was the precise occasion when The Thing with Feathers shone brightly at the Sundance Film Festival premiere. The reviews have been coming out where the critics are still confused, yet fascinated, by the idea of an amusing blend of grief and horror.
While the co-creators of Sherlock, Steven Moffat and Watson actor Martin Freeman have shown interest in doing the series again and might have contemplated the script of the next season, Benedict Cumberbatch has other opinions.
When he was asked about his return to Sherlock, where he played the titular role from 2010 to 2017, he revealed that it would require “a lot of money.”
He validated, “There’s always that itch to scratch” since whatever Sherlock is going to be in the future, it needs to be superiorly better than its previous version.
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He added, “It would take it to be better than it ever was.” At one instance in Australia, he even explained that he realised that people love Sherlock but he is not going to do the same thing over and over again.
He gave the reason for being more open to new roles so that he is able to explore himself and surprise the fans. He revealed that he wanted to “stretch” himself despite knowing that fans might not like the stuff he generally does.
The Imitation Game actor, 48, elaborated that he had been lucky to have been fed by the scripts of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss as they are “trusted entities” but he feels it needs to excel this time, as the benchmark of Sherlock’s excellence is already set too high in the past seasons.
As per People Magazine, Cumberbatch remained straightforward on being focused on his production company founded in 2013, Sunny March.
He knows his direction as he is now putting more energy into the projects that are about a “difficult subject or is really a niche piece of art-house cinema.” He appears in most of such projects in order to finance them.
In conversation with Metro, Steven Moffat is clear on the idea that Sherlock cannot happen without Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, as they both define the entire show. Despite being game for the next season, he relies heavily on the possibilities of both stars’ availability for another batch of episodes to roll on.