Benedict Cumberbatch: What disappointment has stayed with you longest?

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Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Not being a dad by the age of 32.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2012 source ↗

Others on this question

Rory Kinnear English actor

Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗

Jonnie Peacock British athlete

I try not to have disappointments, because a lot of the bad things that happen in life teach you things.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 January 2018 source ↗

Sally Hawkins British actress

Realising that I wasn't a fairy changeling child and that David Bowie wasn't the fairy king.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2011 source ↗

Alison Steadman British actress

Not making a movie with Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 January 2009 source ↗

Amber, my aunt, and her boyfriend, Gian Luigi Valino – he has primary lateral sclerosis and she cares for him.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2012 source ↗

With the sun on my face and a beer in my hand, the morning after I had been in a car-jacking in South Africa.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2012 source ↗

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