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 recently opened up about a traumatic experience he faced while filming in South Africa for a BBC miniseries in 2004. In an interview with Variety, the Doctor Strange actor recalled the terrifying incident,