Paul Jones
12:17 PM, 21 January 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch has been named guest director of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival, and the Sherlock star says he’s particularly keen to attend two events that would be of interest to his detective alter ego.
“As someone who has portrayed Sherlock Holmes, I’m of course looking forward to [a talk] about why the violin is so hard to play," said Cumberbatch, who mimes to a professional musician when his character plays the instrument on the show.
"[And I'll be] testing my real-life deduction skills in the mock crime scene,” he added.
The actor also revealed how other roles had helped fuel his interest in science: “My link to a science festival may seem a little tenuous at first glance,” admitted Cumberbatch, “and yet as an actor who has researched playing Stephen Hawking, Joseph Hooker, Heisenburg and both Frankenstein and his creation I’ve long had a passion for all fields of science.”
READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-01-21/benedict-cumberbatch-to-test-sherlock-skills-as-guest-director-of-the-cambridge-science-festival
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