Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange ... He also got questioned about playing Stephen Hawking in the 2004 TV movie Hawking. "He was dubious about it," Cumberbatch said about of the famous cosmologist.

Written for a non-specialist audience, Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is the very definition of a smash-hit science book. It may be a joke (repeated by Hawking himself in h2g2) that it’s ...