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gears up to play feline-loving artist Louis Wain on the big screen, Benedict Cumberbatch muses: ‘I like cats, but I compare it to living with a supermodel. I admire them, but they are a little bit daunting.

There’s a little bit of fear involved — whereas dogs are a bit more dopey.’ Playing Wain, a 19th-century painter known for his paintings of large-eyed cats, is clearly a three-pipe problem for the Sherlock star.