ABC/Rick Rowell(LONDON) — Benedict Cumberbatch appreciates the fans who come out to see him in the new London production of Hamlet and discussing it on social media — just no cameras, please.
In a YouTube video posted following his performance Saturday, the 39-year-old Sherlock star greets fans outside London’s Barbican Theater to talk about “all these cameras, all these phones, everyone filming me.”
“I don’t use social media and I’d really appreciate it if you did tweet, blog, hashtag the s*** out of this one for me,” he jokes. “I don’t mind this, this is part of it, photographs, whatever, outside — fine.”
“[Inside] I can see cameras, I can see red lights in the auditorium. And it may not be any of you here that did that but it’s blindingly obvious,” he adds.
Cumberbatch, explains that that during Saturday’s performance, he “could see a red light at about the third row on the right,” declaring, “It’s mortifying.”
Cumberbatch warns the fans that the venue plans to install devices that will have shutterbugs “detected and evicted.”
“I don’t want that to happen,” he pleads. “So listen, this isn’t me blaming you, this is just me asking you to just ripple it out there, in the brilliantly useful way that you do, with the funny, electronic things. I really appreciate it.”
The new production of Hamlet, which opened on Wednesday, runs through October 31.
Copyright © 2015, ABC Radio. All rights reserved.
