Improvising an interpretation that makes sense and fits well into the ensemble of a film should not be easy. We recently learned that the great Meryl Streep pulled up to twenty-five phone calls out of her hat in don’t look up, the Netflix hit made by Adam McKay. And, now, Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted the same thing in a capital scene of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), where he plays Doctor Strange for the sixth time.
“[John Watts, el director] it’s fantastic. It has very good taste. He is also very detailed. He handles tone beautifully, all the time, and yet he’s very nimble,” the London-based actor tells Christina Radish during an interview for Collider. Great directors can leave out a snippet of the script or a big stage and say, “Oh, maybe that’s the story.”
“There was a moment near the end of the movie where we were really trying to make it work, on top of the Statue of Liberty”, Benedict Cumberbatch continues about Peter Parker and his Doctor Strange. That same monument alluded to in the series Hawk Eyethe work of Jonathan Igla (2021), to link it with this third adventure that stars the wall-crawler in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Tom [Holland] I was having a hard time with the script, like before the retakes. And then we did them and I came up with this idea: to show that I love him, I didn’t want him to make the sacrifice of being forgotten”, tells about those emotional seconds of Spider-Man: No Way Home. “He said, ‘That’s going to be in the movie.’ And I was like, “Okay, great. That’s great””.
Benedict Cumberbatch Let loose in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
To solve the problem in which they find themselves and through which the villains and other characters, who know Peter Parker in others, arrive in his universe, the superhero decides that there is no other solution: a new spell from Doctor Strange to let no one remember him. AND the reaction to this proposal it is what Benedict Cumberbatch improvises with in the Marvel film.
“You throw yourself into those huge sand pits,” he says in the same interview, referring to the uncertainty of creating dialogues and interactions as you go. “How remarkable I learned from Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. in infinity war it was seeing how comfortable he was just improvising about Aunt May with him. He did this thing that wasn’t scripted at all.” like him in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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“I’m a pretty canon guy. It’s about the text for me”, admits the English artist. “Being free with it and having some maneuverability and being able to improvise, and on such a large canvas, it was a real eye opener”. Otherwise, it’s possible that parting between Doctor Strange and young Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home I wouldn’t have had the capacity to move us like that.