Benedict Cumberbatch is far from done with playing Doctor Strange. The actor, who is at the Red Sea Film Festival with “We Live in Time” — produced by his company SunnyMarch — called the superhero a “complex man motivated by a need to control everything at any cost.” “I am interested in seeing where these costs take him,” he said. “There is a lot more to play and it’s very exciting.”

The actor also briefly touched upon his upcoming film with Wes Anderson, “The Phoenician Scheme,” saying that it was a different experience from their previous collaboration in “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” in that “this was just character” instead of stepping into a meta-narrative based on pre-existing literary work. Of Jay Roach’s “The Roses,” Cumberbatch said the film had “pretty cool ingredients” in “amazing” Olivia Colman and a “great script” by Yorgos Lanthimos’s frequent collaborator Tony McNamara.