Benedict Cumberbatch: “Sherlock is nothing without Moriarty - I’m a bit obsessed with Andrew Scott” (RADIO TIMES)

"Andrew Scott is a lovely human being," says Cumberbatch - “I was very sad when he put a gun in his head and blew his brains out”

Paul Jones
12:00 PM, 09 October 2012

Moriarty is dead. As Andrew Scott, the actor who plays the arch-villain in BBC1’s Sherlock, has himself pointed out “It’s very hard to come back from shooting yourself in the mouth.”

Yet with a third series in the pipeline, the show’s star Benedict Cumberbatch has admitted “it’s nothing without that dynamic between Holmes and Moriarty.”

“I was very sad when he put a gun in his head and blew his brains out,” said Cumberbatch, adding that, along with his fondness for Moriarty, he is also “a bit obsessed” with Scott.

“He’s brilliant. He’s another person [as well as Martin Freeman] that when he was cast, it was music to my ears,” said the star. “I knew how good he was because I’d seen all his stage plays.”

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