Celebrity Life

Benedict Cumberbatch is the quintessential English gentleman: Eloquent, well-dressed and sophisticated. Incidentally, he's also one of the most brilliant actors of his generation. But there's more to him than thespian talent and impeccable manners, as we learn from a thought-provoking interview.

From the stage to the big screen, Benedict Cumberbatch has treated us to some of the most memorable and brilliant performances in recent years: A cape-donning master of mystic arts, a gifted, sociopathic detective, a closeted mathematical genius, and one of Shakespeare’s agonisingly conflicted protagonists, to name but a few.

When Cumberbatch isn’t dazzling us with his methodically brilliant performances, or indulging us with his charmingly self-deprecating ways, he meditates and dives – as we learn from a short film he’s made in collaboration with Jaeger-LeCoultre, called In A Breath.

Shot off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand at the magical Rakino Island, it depicts Cumberbatch as he comes to terms with the parallels between meditation and free-diving, and the impact both have on our sense of time. As the stunning film reveals, in the otherworldly realm under water, all forms of external distractions disappear, and one loses all sense of the temporal world – a somewhat jarring yet cathartic experience.

[caption id="attachment_212121" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Benedict Cumberbatch free dives at Rakino Island in New Zealand.[/caption]

In the midst of preparing to reprise his role as Dr Strange, Cumberbatch is taking the time to sit down and speak with a select group of media from around world about this life-changing, first-time free dive and how, at this unsettling time of Covid, making value of your time is ever crucial.

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