Thom Yorke interviews Benedict Cumberbatch for Interview magazine

Thom Yorke has interviewed Benedict Cumberbatch for Interview magazine, which has the whole conversation on its website.

As a teenager Cumberbatch spent five months in a Tibetan monastic community in Darjeeling, and Yorke opens the interview with it. You were 19 and signing yourself up to sit on a cushion for how many hours a day?¹ Yorke, though he is the one asking, tells some of his own story: the ambition he had at 19 grew debilitating, and after a full crash he took up meditation.

They spend a while on Nikola Tesla and his fights with George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison. We'd be living on a different planet if Tesla had won this¹, Yorke says.