I worked with Timothy Carlton, when he was a young man, and Timothy said to me: ‘My real surname’s Cumberbatch. But I mean… can you imagine trying to have success as an actor with a name like Cumberbatch?’ 

Ian McKellen on working with Benedict′s Father (x)

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Those cheekbones though.

Is this from when Timothy was in The Scarlet Pimpernel? I remember watching that in my early teens.

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Mind you, when I was Benedict Cumberbatch’s age I looked a lot like him.

Sir Ian McKellen

In response to “If someone was to play you in a movie of your life who would it be?”

THIS HAS TO HAPPEN!

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