Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another edition of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

Thank you so much.

As always, for clicking and being with us this week, my guest is one of the best and I

think most interesting actors in all of Hollywood, Benedict Cumberbatch.

He and I got together over what else?

Some morning tea, the British star going over his career that's spanned so many iconic

characters, both fictional and real life.

His big break came as Sherlock Holmes and the BBC series won him an Emmy here in the

United States and really spurred his popularity both here in the US and around the world.

It also gave birth to a phenomenon known as Cumbermania.

We'll get into that in his crazy fans.

Some of the other roles you might know, he played Stephen Hawking, he played Julian Assange,

the founder of WikiLeaks, and of course World War II code breaker Alan Turing.

His performance earned him a breakthrough Oscar nomination in 2015.

More recently this year, getting a lot of critical acclaim for his role as Patrick Melrose,

a title character in that showtime series, a guy with a very dark past.

His latest project, though completely different than all that heavy stuff, he plays the Grinch

in the new animated version of the Dr. Seuss classic.

He tells me all about why he decided to take on that part and how he puts his own new

spin on a role that's been around for a long time.

A fun conversation with a really smart guy, Benedict Cumberratch right now on the Sunday

sit down podcast.

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