Benedict Cumberbatch on Netflix's Eric: 'As a parent I couldn't watch some scenes but as an actor I could go there'
While filming his major new Netflix show Eric, Benedict Cumberbatch had to spend a day running through the streets of New York, dressed in a huge blue and white furry monster suit.
It was a hot day, and as he sprinted through Sixth Avenue and across Central Park past extras and “random punters”, face fully showing, he though, “Yep it’s me, I’m dressed as a puppet. This will be one of the most wonderfully embarrassing moments of my life.”
But then… it was fine.
“It’s New York,” he reasons. “They’re like ‘Oh my God… anyway as I was saying.’ It was a momentary distraction.” Did people wonder what Doctor Strange was doing dressed like that? “Yep there was a bit of that.”
Eric is a six-part series arriving on the streaming, it is about puppeteer Vincent (Cumberbatch) working on a Sesame Street-style show in New York in the Eighties.
