# EP.257 - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

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Podcast: [THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adam-buxton-podcast-1100461)
Published: 2025-09-08T08:34:58+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/adambuxton/episodes/ep257-benedict-cumberbatch
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Duration seconds: 3774

## Resource

Adam talks with English actor Benedict Cumberbatch about his new film The Roses, as well as appearing on SNL, the challenge of balancing a successful career with married life and young children, whether couples therapy works, why actors lose their shit on film sets and whether Adam should retire the Christian Bale on set meltdown jingle.  Conversation recorded face-to-face in London on 12 June 2025  Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for additional editing Podcast illustration by Helen Green Pre-order Adam's album BUCKLE UP with limited signed artwork Order Adam's book 'I Love You Byeee'  EXCLUSIVE NORD VPN DEAL Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! TALK 90s TO ME (Miranda Sawyer podcast on Podfollow) UNCOMMON PEOPLE by Miranda Sawyer - 2025 (WATERSTONES) WHAT HAPPENED TO COUNTER-CULTURE? Presented by Stewart Lee - 2025 (BBC SOUNDS) Comedian Stewart Lee presents a five-part series exploring the evolution and key ideas that have driven counter-culture from its beginnings with the Beats, folk and jazz in the 1950s, to its heights in the 1960s and 70s including the hippies and the early tech-communalists, the new liberation movements and punk, to the 1980s and early 90s, where political power on both sides of the Atlantic pushed back against the values of the ‘permissive society’. MORE LINKS (ON ADAM'S WEBSITE) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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