Benedict Cumberbatch Was Almost "Ben Carlton"

Let's meet our guest tonight. She stars as Wanda Maximoff in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness. It's Elizabeth Olsen Doctor Strange in the multiverse of madness. It's Benedict Cumberbatch Thank you for having some fun with us earlier, I loved it. It was a great time really good Can we talk about this suit for a minute? Oh I don't know that there's anybody Who quite rocks a suit like Elizabeth Olsen? When did this happen? When did this love affair with a tailored suit begin? Well, it's been a long time coming and I'm just really starting to feel more confident and who I am today Right, but I was very confident when I was 16, and I would just pretend like I was Annie Hall constantly Oh, that's where it comes from. It comes from Annie Hall. It was like a long journey to get back here. I love it It's an absolute triumph. Thank you. It's sensational. Thanks. I don't own it, but I'm enjoying wearing it If we're talking about triumphs, let's pause for a moment and Congratulate Benedict Cumberbatch on what has been a phenomenal year Spider-man Nominated for the power of the dog and your film comes out and I'm certain it's gonna be massive You just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame This must have been a magical day. It was a magical day. It was it was extraordinary I mean, I was full of trepidation and nerves and being a bit English sort of Mawkishly kind of embarrassed about it as well. I get But then I really ended up enjoying it It's a nice sort of ego stroke. And yeah, it's been a bit of a few months of it. There was this lovely Festival at Santa Barbara Film Festival made they did a similar thing with the vantage award It was just a weird but bizarre sort of flashback of my 20 years worth of that It has it's been quite a ride and you both you both you both recently in London and Elizabeth you've been spending a lot of time in the United Kingdom. What's something you've noticed about the English way of life? That was surprising to you that you didn't know just when you'd visit for a weekend or whatever Well when I lived in Richmond, hmm, I went to the park a lot. Yeah, and I'd go in the morning and About 7 a.m. All the Brits had like Lots of different varieties of cake with their coffee like birthday cake I would like a just chocolate cake with icing and and that was the thing that I hadn't really seen before But they really liked their cake Do you this does not resonate with you living in England with in their cakes in the morning for breakfast? Are you sure you weren't hanging out with addicts? Potentially because it's not something I've ever heard before. Have you been no You and you Brits and you cake in the morning It's not a thing. I don't think so. Maybe it's a Richmond thing. It's a thing in Richmond. We're North London boy Yeah, we don't know what goes on that side of the really Venture that side of the road. I'll get a taxi really Like actual slices of first slice of cake like Slices of birthday cake slice Okay, I know think you was it just with people wearing a lot of very brightly colored clothes And did they have very big pupils and were they sweating slightly? No, mostly mostly in like outdoor rain gear because no one uses umbrellas either in Richmond No, it is like a badge of honor to just go out in the rain And so I the rain you have I started buying like every outdoor British Gear I could have and just never ever use an umbrella. So I'd be like one of the country Brits Well, that's the thing you once you set your mindset if you're in Britain to go there is no bad weather There's just a bad attitude towards weather. Yeah You have to embrace the rain I didn't embrace the cakes that I couldn't get behind Can I tell you one thing? I know for sure If this cake thing was a thing I'd know Gaslighting me right now. I'm so serious about this cake thing. I Don't think we can consider this gaslight. No, no, I don't think you're just feeling very uncomfortable I'm feeling like you're acting like I just think it might be something specific to that park in Richmond. Mmm cake Thing you do have in common is that you both the pair of you considered Changing your last name Benedict. What did you consider changing your name to instead? Well, this is it. I'm Ben Ben Carlton Yeah, but I think Benedict there might even been another Ben Carlton but that wasn't really the reason it changed it changed because My slightly more sensible agents went the adventure people I was with when you've got a great son And why are you calling yourself by your middle name? And I don't know any actors called cumberbatch because it's just kind of like but it sounds like a fart in a bath or something You know, I find it difficult to say on a Monday morning and it's it's it's a great sort of Scrabble school but apart from that it's It's a bit clumsy and they went it's great It's very unique and it's it's different and people might remember it So you should change it and so I didn't I I started work almost immediately after that. That's it I'm thrilled that you stuck with the old Benedict cumberbatch. I think it's wonderful. It's my vocal warmer What were you what were you considering changing your name to and why well when I was about nine years old I thought when I was an act. Well, I when I'm going to become an actress I'm going to be Liz the chase also my middle name. Oh, yeah, so I can stand on my own two feet, right? Yeah, yeah, and then when I started working I didn't have a thing about it, so I was just like whatever yeah That's me well stick around because Ben Cartman Elizabeth chase will be You