Benedict Cumberbatch on working with his seven-year-old co-stars

Benedict Cumberbatch describes how he got through an emotional scene with an unruly child co-stars on 'The Thing With Feathers.'

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00:00and he in the audition process they were the only ones he really really wanted

00:05and when I went in to do a test with them I came out and go and I just I was

00:10I'm scared I'm actually scared it was day it was so dangerous they're not

00:15actors they're untrained they're two seven-year-old and their brothers they're

00:18twins purity of their vulnerability was the scary thing no just the fact that

00:22they are children mental and out of control yeah no you know they were

00:27fighting each other they were throwing insults at me they were tearing around

00:31the room oh wow but yeah but they are extraordinary and Richard is the slightly

00:38older one by seconds to Henry is sort of preternaturally old soul he looks older

00:45even though they are the seconds apart in birth and there were two moments that I

00:48remember very chiefly foot how we kind of got through it and can't quite believe we

00:52did it one moment when I'm telling them their mothers died and Richard just found

00:56it unbelievably funny from and then you know eventually he got into it and I

01:09said I think you know because you're upset you might want to just sort of allow me

01:13to just cut it I think we should have a huddle here I think this is a kind of a

01:15cuddle moment he went no I don't like cuddles I don't like colors well just just this

01:22once just this once he did it and and during the take he whispered in my ear

01:27like this he was like you owe me big time

01:31a weak man

01:34a weak man