But with plenty of major characters to his name, there’s one particularly controversial one Cumberbatch would never play ...

Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange ... He also got questioned about playing Stephen Hawking in the 2004 TV movie Hawking. "He was dubious about it," Cumberbatch said about of the famous cosmologist.

Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...

Reviewed on September 7 A largely lethargic look at the life of Stephen Hawking ... Or will it be Jake Gyllenhaal, Benedict Cumberbatch or Eddie Redmayne for the win?