Benedict Cumberbatch: The True Story How Two Men Saved Us from Nuclear War

In The Courier, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Greville Wynne in the true story telling of a British businessman who’s recruited by the CIA and MI-6 to make contact with the KGB to prevent nuclear war from occurring in the 1960s.

Jon Stenvall sits down with Benedict to talk about the movie and whether he felt a sense of duty to get the role right.

The Courier is now playing in theaters nationwide.

Synopsis: The Courier is a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.