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Benedict Cumberbatch is someone that I ask for advice a lot about acting. I went through a phase where I was really, really struggling to cry. In my personal life also. And it was really affecting me on set because I would really just worry about crying scenes and worry and worry and worry. And I would worry so much that I would almost like worry myself out of tears. And I don't know if you got, I'm sure everyone in here has seen The Imitation Game. there is that beautiful scene at the end of the film where he breaks down and I just remember watching that as a kid just sort of being blown away by it and I was lucky to be working with him on a film called Current War and I remember asking him like how did you do that did you draw from your own personal emotion or was it from you know is there a technique that you do and truth be told it's a combination of both but the technique that he told me was this kind of thing that he's able to do with his diaphragm, which is almost like laughing. I'm probably giving away his secrets here. He's talented. It's great. Yeah, no, listen, I'm helping. Yeah, right. Keep going. Keep going. Benedict will love this. We need this for the video. But yeah, he sort of does this thing where he like, he showed me on set and we were just hanging out, having a coffee and, you know, people probably look past us like, is Benedict crying at the coffee station? But he just would, he would do this thing where he would kind of simulate laughing and he would breathe really, really quickly. and that would sort of, I guess, bring the emotion to the surface and then he could just take it and ride the wave from there. And fuck, I started doing that and I love crying scenes now. I love it. I feel really confident. It's something that I really feel like I have in my wheelhouse. I don't have to draw on past experiences or personal matters anymore, which is really important, especially for a show like this.