sherlock’s approach to research

Early this year, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts launched its interview series,In Conversation, with Benedict Cumberbatch. (Good choice!) Something he said about how he researches a new role struck a chordwith me:

[Research is] a security blanket. Not all of it — very little of it ends up on screen, often. And it’s just to take a little bit more possession of the extraordinariness of what I’m being asked to do. Because it’s so far removed from my experience. It just gets me a l...