There is a moment in Sherlock that Cumberbatch has described as the hardest thing he has ever been asked to do on screen. It is not a dramatic scene. It is not a physical challenge. It is eleven words — and how to say them to someone who cannot hear them.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Said the Hardest Scene He Ever Filmed in Sherlock Was Eleven Words Long. Here's Why Those Eleven Words Required Everything He Had
The scene is from .
Not the rooftop. Not the fall. The phone call.
Holmes, standing on the roof of St Bartholomew's Hospital, makes a call to Watson.
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