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Stars rush to beat cancer

Dashing celebrities – all part of photographer Greg Williams’s charity campaign

When the photographer Greg Williams took these pictures, he was looking for one thing: urgency. Gillian Anderson flung off her heels and ran barefoot along the pavement; Idris Elba bolted down a London street; Steve Coogan leapt over a hedge. It was all in aid of the Stand Up To Cancer campaign, which launches this autumn.

Williams lost his mother to ovarian cancer in 2008, after three relapses that spanned 19 years. For this project he asked his subjects to sprint towards him “as fast as they can, as if trying to save a life”.

The first person Williams enlisted was his good friend, the actor Tom Hardy, who charged down the road near his house in a dressing gown and boxer shorts. The idea was that, “He could have just been making his breakfast at home and then suddenly it’s this mad call to arms. He drops everything and the most important thing in the world is saving that life,” says Williams.

Other stars soon came forward to support the campaign. Benedict Cumberbatch, Eddie Redmayne and Anna Friel all took part in a bid to increase awareness. “The quicker we move, the faster we can find cures and help people,” says Williams. “It makes perfect sense really.”

Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 (standuptocancer.org.uk)

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Benedict Cumberbatch accepts his GQ award 2014

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Benedict Cumberbatch in British GQ magazine-Actor of the Year

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Benedict Cumberbatch panel 06.04.2014 OZComicCon - tweet compilation

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MORE photos of Benedict Cumberbatch in Finland from High Life mag! Thank you @jmecreates! "The photoshoot that keeps on giving!"

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So I met Benedict Cumberbatch today and when I went to get his autograph and he was passed my Frankenstein painting he went “oh, wow! who did this??” and looked up as I sort of stammered ‘I… I did’ and he said something like “it’s beautiful” (I can’t remember because I WAS TOO BUSY DYING) and then he signed it and now my life is complete, basically :)

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Benedict Cumberbatch attends the Laureus Welcome Party ahead of the 2014 Laureus World Sports Awards at the Carcosa Seri Negara on March 25, 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia[HQ]

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The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.

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