{"id":26727,"date":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26727\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T07:13:08","slug":"benedict-cumberbatch-criticises-grossly-wasteful-film-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/26727\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch criticises \u201cgrossly wasteful\u201d film industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benedict Cumberbatch<\/a> has described the film industry as \u201cgrossly wasteful\u201d in its excessive use of resources and energy.<\/p>\n

The Doctor Strange<\/a> star was speaking to the Ruthie\u2019s Table 4 podcast last week when he was asked about the process of bulking up to play the Marvel superhero.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s horrific eating beyond your appetite,\u201d he said, revealing that preparing for the role would require him to eat five meals a day, in addition to multiple other snacks, including boiled eggs and cheese.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing back to responsibility and resourcefulness and sustainability, it\u2019s just like, \u2018What am I doing? I could feed a family with the amount I\u2019m eating,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a grossly wasteful industry. Think about set builds that aren\u2019t recycled, think about transport, think about food, think about housing, but also light and energy. The amount of wattage you need to create daylight and consistent light in a studio environment. It\u2019s a lot of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putting forward one suggestion to make film sets more ecologically acceptable, he added: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to give the crew plastic bottles. If you\u2019re in the middle of a desert and you can\u2019t get glass bottles there, fair enough. But we\u2019re in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Cumberbatch was one of hundreds of people to sign an open letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer earlier this year urging him to \u201cend UK complicity\u201d<\/a> in the ongoing destruction in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Led by refugee charity Choose Love<\/a>, the letter called for all UK arms sales to Israel to be immediately suspended, immediate humanitarian access for experienced aid agencies to be provided, and that the government commit to seeking a ceasefire for \u201cthe children of Gaza\u201d.<\/p>\n

Cumberbatch most recently appeared in Wes Anderson<\/a>\u2019s The Phoenician Scheme. In a four-star review, NME wrote<\/a>: \u201cAs ever, Anderson really cranks up the knowing whimsy. We see Korda grappling with his conscience in dream sequences where God is played by\u00a0Bill Murray<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 who else? But\u00a0The Phoenician Scheme\u00a0never becomes smug or too self-referential; it\u2019s simply a lot of fun peppered with unexpected bursts of action, a new addition to the Anderson arsenal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benedict Cumberbatch has described the film industry as \u201cgrossly wasteful\u201d in its excessive use of resources and energy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-26727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}