EP.257 - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
Adam and Benedict Cumberbatch, London, June 2025
Adam talks with English actor Benedict Cumberbatch about his new film The Roses, as well as appearing on SNL, the challenge of balancing a successful career with married life and young children, whether couples therapy works, why actors lose their shit on film sets and whether Adam should retire the Christian Bale on set meltdown jingle.
Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 12 June 2025
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for additional editing
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
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