Benedict’s happy at a home from Holmes

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe revealed he’d walked round ComicCon in disguise as Spider-Man to get a look at some of the weird and wonderful costumes – which sounded like a good idea to Benedict.

“I’m a bit excited about the peoplewatching which, hopefully, I’ll get to do,” he said.

“I want to see what other people are enjoying.

“I couldn’t possibly say if I’ll get myself a costume. I couldn’t tell you if I’mgoing to dress up and go out on the floor in disguise.”

In Penguins of Madagascar, Benedict plays a wolf who’s also, somehow, a CIA agent.

He’s a bit more Her Majesty’s Secret Service than US super-spy, though. Think Bond, James Bond. I wonder…

“There’s a bit of that in there, that’s why I kept it English, and near to my own voice,” he went on.

“The character is very professional, he knows how to seduce and control and plan.”

Did he channel any Bond actors with the performance?

“A bit of Timothy Dalton, actually!” he said. “I didn’t intentionally do it, I just heard his serious Bond voice in bits of my performance.

“There’s a wee bit of Roger Moore in there as well,” Benedict added, slipping into a pitch-perfect Moore impersonation.

“I don’t just want to do all my Bond impressions now though!” What a nice guy he is. If the Bond producers need a successor to Daniel Craig then Benedict would be a fantastic choice.

I also sat down with character actor John Malkovich, who’s very intense.

He plays the villain, who’s an octopus- cum- scientist. Typecast again, John!

“What I’ve seen looks very good,” he said. “It’s interesting work to take a word or a phrase and try to place it where it needs to be for something you’ve never seen.”

Of course the great Sir Laurence Olivier always said you built a character from the shoes up – so where did Malkovich start with an octopus?

“I guess from the arms?” he quipped.

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