These days, Benedict Cumberbatch is a worldwide star, having played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Strange. In the early aughts, he was still making a name for himself, he and several of his acting pals working on the 2005 TV series, “To the Ends of the Earth,” were driving in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, when they had a tire blowout, requiring a stop to fix it.
While working on the car, six armed men popped up and yelled, “Look down! Look down! Put your hands on your heads! Look at the floor!” They frisked the actors, looking for money, drugs, and weapons. After finding nothing of value, they kidnapped the actors, bound their limbs, and left Cumberbatch on the ground, leading him and his friends to assume they were about to be executed.
Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and inexplicably, the kidnappers let them run free. In recounting his story to The Hollywood Reporter in 2013, Cumberbatch said of the kidnapping incident, “It really, really enriches your values in life. It’s incredibly important.” Cumberbatch came away from the experience loving life, and thankfully, his life and career only improved following the assault.
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