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Benedict Cumberbatchis remembering his “dear friend” who died ofCOVID-19.
The actor shared that Monroe (who died in September at age 52, according tohis IMDb page) also trained him for 2013’sStar Trek Into Darkness, “to bulk up for playing Khan.”
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“The last I heard from him was a text [when he was] on a ventilator in an ICU unit,” Cumberbatch added of Monroe.
TheDoctor Strangeactor acknowledged that “this has been a really painful year for so many hundreds of thousands of millions of people around the world” due in part to the COVID pandemic.
“Not just those who’ve lost loved ones because of this, but also because of the separation and the anxiety and tensions that that has caused,” Cumberbatch added.
“There’sa lot going on for us to beconsiderate of, to be kind of — to try and understand what legacy is, and how to leave something that’s gonna last longer than this star in a better [condition] than we found it, and we have to double down our efforts,” he continued, after also citing the “global climate crisis.”
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In January, fellow Marvel starSimu Liushared thathis grandparents died from the viruslast year.
“They were still waiting for their vaccines,” wrote theShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsstar on Twitter. “I’m fortunate to have been double-vaccinated and boosted when I got COVID 2 weeks ago. Felt like a cold.”
Added Liu, 32, “The media needs to stop spotlighting opinions that are not rooted in facts or science.”
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