Jack Seale
8:30 PM, 09 April 2012
The film and theatre director Danny Boyle has sung the praises of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, calling the 35-year-old actor "extraordinary" and "one of the leading actors in the world". Boyle directed Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller last year in Frankenstein at the National Theatre.
Their alternating roles as Dr Frankenstein and his terrifying creature have earned them a joint nomination for Best Actor at the 2012 Olivier Awards, the winners of which will be announced this Sunday, 15 April, at the Royal Opera House in London.
Talking to Radio Times for the new issue's Olivier Awards picture special, Boyle recalled the casting of Cumberbatch – who had just been seen on BBC1 in the first series of Sherlock – in the play. "I didn’t really know him as a stage actor," Boyle said.
"I knew what a fine screen actor he is. But there's a physicality involved in the theatre. It's not just about mannerisms or impersonation, which screen often is: it's about sustaining a narrative with mind and body. When I saw him for Frankenstein, that was the only thing I wanted to know. Did he have that physical capacity? And of course he does.
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