Benedict Cumberbatch blasts 'grossly wasteful' film industry
The aftermath left the London-born actor feeling 'horrific' as he was instructed to eat beyond his appetite.
The 49-year-old Marvel star said he could have fed a family with the 'amount he was eating.'
Cumberbatch recently appeared on podcast Ruthie's Table 4, where he exposed all of his eating secrets that made him Doctor Strange.
Throughout the podcast, he discussed all things food, which led to him criticising the film industry for being 'grossly wasteful.'
Speaking to host Ruth Rodgers, he said: 'You have someone who can prescribe you what you're eating and they can cook for you.'
He went on to share the pure volume of food he was given, adding: 'We had a fantastic chef on the last Doctor Strange film. He needs to be on this many calories a day.
'He needs to have five meals, he needs to have a couple of boiled eggs between those five meals, some kind of high protein snack, cheese and crackers or almond butter and crackers, crackers, lots of crackers.'
It was not all negative for Cumberbatch as he did enjoy the exercise part of his transformation and felt as if he was fueling his body properly for gruellingly long days of filming.
'For me, the exercise is great and the end result is that you feel strong and you feel confident, you hold yourself better, you have stamina through the exercise and the food that makes you last through the gig,' he added.
The Sherlock Holmes star continued to speak passionately on the film industry and how it contributes to waste.
He went on to say: 'It just slowly, slowly, you have to meet people where they are on these issues in filmmaking.
'So let me think about set builds that aren't recycled, think about transport, think about food, think about housing, but also light and energy.'
'The amount of wattage you need to sort of create daylight and consistent light in a studio environment. It's a lot of energy,' he added.
Cumberbatch continued to speak out on behalf of actors and producers who often stay silent when it comes to speaking on global issues: 'So the first people to stick their head above the parapet to talk about anything to do with climate and excessive use of things, or hypocrisy, or systems that don't work, get slammed if they're actors, because they're ferried about.' More Trending
He carried on by saying: 'It is a systemic thing, but as a producer, I'm really hot on that.
'I try to push the green initiative, the green handshake into every agreement I can.'
There are two Doctor Strange films in the Marvel Universe franchise – both starring Cumberbatch post-bodybuilding.
The Marvel star also starred as Sherlock in the BBC mystery crime drama series, which ran from 2010 to 2017.
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