Interesting fact:

Cumberbatch took a gap year to teach English in India at a Tibetan monastery. When talking about his experiences abroad, he mentioned how they have helped his acting career: “stillness is an essential part of acting, so I already had a certain amount of focus in that beforehand. A still point is a very, very hard place to find, especially among the usual kind of pulped sheep pushed around by the blinking flashing world of modern technology.”