Just take a minute to think about a world without Benedict Cumberbatch. Well, a world where the name ‘Benedict Cumberbatch’ doesn’t exist, anyway.
The Oscar-nominated actor revealed recently that he tried to change his name to Benedict Carlton – his middle name and his grandfather’s name – but his agent convinced him his name would make him a star.
While promoting his film* The Imitation Game* in LA, newly-wed Benedict said: “I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather’s name.
“Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath... it is even funnier in an English accent. But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name.
“People have had fun with it and they continue to!”
We never actually thought it sounded like a fart in a bath before. But now that’s all we can think about. Thanks a bunch, Benedict Fart-in-a-bath…