Benedict Cumberbatch opened up a about a terrifying ordeal that happened 21 years ago: he was briefly abducted. In an interview with Variety, Cumberbatch recalled that in 2004, while shooting BBC miniseries To The Ends Of The Earth in South Africa,

Benedict Cumberbatch and his friends were returning from a diving trip when their vehicle suffered a tyre blowout. Stranded on the roadside, they were approached by six armed men who abducted them at gunpoint.

Benedict Cumberbatch recently shared a harrowing experience from his past in an interview with Variety, revealing that he was kidnapped while filming the BBC miniseries To The Ends of the Earth in South Africa in 2004.

Benedict Cumberbatch has recounted a harrowing experience from 20 years ago when he was robbed and kidnapped while filming in South Africa. In a recent interview with Variety, the Oscar-nominated actor,

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch detailed his terrifying kidnapping in South Africa which changed the direction of his life for good. He spent hours in captivity with his friends.