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St. Aubyn describes Cumberbatch’s performance as “astonishing.

”“Being a novelist, I suppose I was very aware of how much of the inner life of the characters was simply not going to be on the screen, because I spent so much time describing people’s mentality,” says St. Aubyn, who visited the set at different junctures. “So I thought, ‘What’s going to happen?’ What I saw was someone manifest a whole psychological history with a gesture or with a tone, and I thought it was miraculous.“   (source)