Benedict Cumberbatch spent weeks studying the movements of Komodo dragons at the London Zoo before crawling around a carpeted studio floor in a skin tight gray tracking suit to…

Hollywood will gladly pay an Oscar-nominated British actor millions to squirm around on a dirty carpet pretending to be a giant reptile. The unsung absurdity of motion-capture artistry is the absolute humiliation required before the millions of dollars in CGI get added. You haven't truly earned your paycheck until you've roared at a tennis ball on a stick while wearing a ping-pong ball onesie.