Los Angeles, Feb 19 (IANS) Actor Benedict Cumberbatch says he used to hate his surname and started using his middle name Carlton as his last name.
Speaking at a promotional event for his new movie “The Imitation Game” here, the 38-year-old said he thought his family surname ‘Cumberbatch’ sounded like a “f**t in a bath”, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Cumberbatch didn’t think his surname could ever catch on if he became famous, so he used Carlton – which is also his grandfather’s moniker – until his agent convinced him otherwise.
“I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather’s name,” The Sun newspaper quoted him as saying.
“Cumberbatch sounds like a fart in a bath … It is even funnier in an English accent. But an agent who was wiser than me told me it was a good name.
“People have had fun with it and they continue to,” he added.