“...although I’m not OCD, I have been known to check my temperature and worry too much about symptoms. And I do have threshold anxiety. I have this thing where I have to check the gas is off two or three times.” Usefully for this part, he has always felt something of an outsider. His grandmother paid for him to go to Harrow school, where, rather endearingly, he “fell in with a nice bunch of teachers”. They inspired him to act, but didn’t help him feel more like his affluent classmates. “Everyone was always going on fantastic holidays, and I would be like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to see my gran in Brighton.’”

Benedict in an old interview from The Sunday Times about The Last Enemy

He was friends with the teachers…oh my God I love him so. <3