Los Angeles: Actor Benedict Cumberbatch says he used to hate his surname and started using his middle name Carlton as his last name.
<img title="Why did Benedict Cumberbatch hate his surname?" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/feb/19-benedict-cumberbatch.jpg" alt="Why did Benedict Cumberbatch hate his surname?" />Benedict Cumberbatch
Speaking at a promotional event for his new movie 'The Imitation Game', the 38-year-old said he thought his family surname 'Cumberbatch' sounded like a 'f**t in a bath'.
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.
&ldquo;I started off as Benedict Carlton, which is my middle name, my grandfather's name,&rdquo; The Sun newspaper quoted him as saying.
&ldquo;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.
&ldquo;People have had fun with it and they continue to,&rdquo; he added.

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Actor Benedict Cumberbatch says he used to hate his surname and started using his middle name Carlton as his last name

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