Drama was elementary to Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, who learned acting at £64,000-a-year Harrow School.
However, he and his wife, theatre director Sophie Hunter, don’t want to send their three sons to boarding school.
‘Not unless they really want to, but no way,’ the actor says.
‘And Sophie [feels] the same. Selfishly, I want them around – I still want to be there, in case the call comes, [when] the fall happens, I wanna be there.’
He does, however, praise his alma mater, whose alumni include Winston Churchill and pop star James Blunt, for its ‘amazing facilities and very structured timetable’.
Harrow is a boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 and was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I.
Benedict Cumberbatch insists his three sons won’t be going to boarding school – after he was educated at £64,000-a-year Harrow
Harrow is a boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18 and was founded in 1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I
It comes after Benedict enjoyed a rare date night with his wife Sophie at the New York screening of The Thing With Feathers last Wednesday.
The actor, 49, who plays a widowed father in his latest drama, looked dapper in a navy double breasted suit and white T-shirt as he posed on the red carpet at The Crosby Hotel.
Sophie, 47, cut a chic figure in a black sequin dress and heels as she styled her brunette locks into a voluminous, curled blowout.
An official synopsis for the movie reads: ‘A father and two sons struggle to cope with the sudden loss of their wife and mother.
‘As they try to move on with their lives, the family also has to face grief, which is depicted as a large crow.’
The Thing with Feathers hit UK cinemas on October 24.
The Emmy winner previously opened up about family life and revealed his emotions have become ‘paper thin’ since he became a father.
Benedict married Sophie in 2015 and the couple have sons Christopher, 10, Hal, eight, and Finn, six, together.
Benedict married Sophie in 2015 and the couple have sons Christopher, 10, Hal, eight, and Finn, six, together
Sherlock actor Benedict next stars in The Thing with Feathers where he plays a grieving father
He admitted having children changed his perspective on life, the way he acts onscreen and has made him more likely to cry at films or get ‘angry’.
He told The Times: ‘[Fatherhood made my] emotions paper thin. That’s what changes how you act, when you become a father.
‘It isn’t necessarily crossovers between your experience and the character’s, it’s that you become an unfettered channel to stuff that you weren’t before.
‘Barbie makes you cry and other things make you angry.’
