There are perhaps two creative minds working in the cinematic landscape today that hold secrecy above most everything else; Kevin Feige and director JJ Abrams, both of whom
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has worked with, leading him to have to keep a great many secrets.
While
Avengers: Infinity War is arguably the highest profile film the actor has worked on, the level of secrecy on Cumberbacth's shoulders for the Marvel film isn't nearly to the level it was for 2013's
Star Trek Into Darkness werein all the buzz and rumour was surrounding his character, "John Harrison".
On the
Graham Norton Show promoting the upcoming Avenger's film, Cumberbatch revealed that while everyone else in the production of
Star Trek Into Darkness went to great pains to keep the reveal of his character hidden, he told someone everything. That someone? Stephen Hawking.
One person who I thought deserved to know, was Stephen Hawking. We were into our third margarita I think - and I decided to tell him, and he, literally, apart from the agents who told me the news and the people hwo employed me, were the only people who were supposed to know. So, I told him.
Interestingly, while people would naturally think of Eddie Redmayne's Oscar winning turn as the physicist in
The Theory of Everything, Benedict Cumberbatch was actually the first actor ever to portray him on screen in the 2004 BBC TV-Movie
Hawking. So it only seems natural that it was to him, that Cumberbacth broke his silence.
Also, who else loves the image of Cumberbatch and Hawking drinking margaritas together?
What do you think? Would you have told Hawking everything? Did you see the character reveal coming anyway? Leave your thoughts below.