Cumberbatch said that his diet while playing the Sorcerer Supreme included five meals per day, plus "a couple of boiled eggs between those five meals, or some kind of high protein snack, cheese and crackers or almond butter and crackers — crackers, lots of crackers."

Benedict Cumberbatch has labelled his need to eat beyond his appetite for Marvel’s Doctor Strange film as "horrific". The London-born actor, 49, known for playing the spell-casting superhero, stated he could have fed a family "with the amount of eating" he did.

Benedict Cumberbatch has described his diet for Marvel's Doctor Strange as 'horrific', calling the practice of eating beyond the body’s needs 'grossly wasteful'. The actor revealed he had to consume five meals a day to meet the energy demands of the role,