Star Trek Into Darkness Star Cumberbatch: True Life Villains Inspired Harrison

During a new interview with MTV Geek, embedded below, Star Trek Into Darkness villain Benedict Cumberbatch discussed the historical influences that helped shape his character, John Harrison, saying that he finds parallels to real-world terrorists chilling.While many, including MTV, suspect that there’s more to John Harrison than meets the eye, Cumberbatch wasn’t interested in talking about that.”[Look at] real social history and present history, everything that’s going on: uprisings, people who are trying to spread democracy or fight their cause, not necessarily through political means … he is a terrorist, and sadly, that’s part of the fabric of our modern world,” the actor said. “You don’t need to look far to research that one.”He added, “It was important to me to ground him in a reality that’s based more on his story than, say, a parallel in the real world.”Star Trek Into Darkness hits theaters on May 17.

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