Benedict Cumberbatch’s Dr Strange can summon space portals, cast kick-ass spells and deploy the mysterious Cloak of Levitation – but even he can fluff his lines.
Case in point: the trailer for Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War’s digital and Blu-ray release, a sneak peek at the two hours’ worth of making-of features, deleted scenes and bloopers. And it’s in the latter where we can see Cumberbatch slurring his own name while striding towards camera. Because even the pros mess up sometimes.
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Interestingly, the DVD director’s commentary reveals a classic Cumberbatch Easter egg that didn’t make it to the film. Remember the scene when Strange and Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark first meet in New York? Co-director Joe Russo and writer Christopher McFeely said they originally planned Stark to drop a reference to a role both actors have shared.
“Should’ve said, ‘No s***, Sherlock,'” McFeely noted. “Everybody really wanted that joke.”
So why was it dropped? “It’s a meta-joke that requires you to be a fan of other movies,” McFeely explained.
Russo added: “It is also a very obvious joke. Not that we can’t be accused of having made obvious jokes before.”
Cumberbatch, of course, played a modern-day Holmes in BBC’s Sherlock series, while Downey played a Victorian version of the super-sleuth in two Guy Ritchie movies, in 2009 and 2011.
So there you have it: Marvel films may be stuffed with quips and pop-culture references, but there’s some fruit simply too low to take.
Avengers: Infinity War is available digitally now and on Blu-ray from 14th August
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