Benedict Cumberbatch has played a superhero involved in some precarious situations, and it turns out the actor has experienced an actual life-threatening situation in his past.

T hat near-death experience switched him into a thrill-seeker constantly searching for a way to get his adrenaline going. "The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that," Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch told Variety in a new interview that he was kidnapped while filming the BBC miniseries “To the Ends of the Earth” in South Africa in 2004. According to the article, the “Doctor Strange” star,