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Benedict Cumberbatch Wanted To Change His Name To...

Star confesses that his agent talked him out of ditching his unusual moniker...

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 12:02

Benedict Cumberbatch is about as famous as you can get right now, but at the beginning of his career he was worried that his distinctive surname could be a barrier to success.

And the 38-year-old Oscars nominee has confessed that he was only talked out of dropping his awesome surname by his (very smart) agent.

Heat quoted him as saying: "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!"

Anyway, you'll have to excuse us - we're just off to run the bath for a little experiment...

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