What Benedict Cumberbatch Does With His Face in the First 10 Seconds of Every Scene — And Why Directors Love It.
There is something that happens in the opening seconds of almost every scene Benedict Cumberbatch plays in Sherlock that most viewers register without consciously noticing.
Before the first line, before any movement, there is a moment of absolute stillness.
Not the stillness of an actor waiting for their cue. Something more active than that — a quality of attention, directed inward, that communicates that the character has already been thinking before the scene began.
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