Benedict Cumberbatch’s “near-death” experience in South Africa still affects him 20 years later. In an interview with Variety published Wednesday, the Dr. Strange actor opened up on the harrowing time he and his co-stars got abducted by six men while working on the BBC miniseries To the Ends of the Earth in South Africa in 2004.

Benedict Cumberbatch was fundamentally changed after he was the victim of an alleged robbery and abduction. "It gave me a sense of time, but not necessarily a good one," Cumberbatch, 48, told Variety in a profile published on Wednesday,

Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that he was the victim of a robbery and abduction. "It gave me a sense of time, but not necessarily a good one," Cumberbatch told Variety in a profile piece published this week.

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