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Cumberbatch asked fans “Tweet, blog and hashtag the (expletive)” out of his request. He has told off several supporters outside the theater about cameras and red lights he has seen in the audience.
He complained that restarting the play had been made even harder by the “blindingly obvious” filming of “someone in the third row”.
Benedict, who has amassed a devoted following worldwide as TV’s Sherlock, appeared outside the Barbican theatre in London to plead with his fans in person to stop recording him.
The current West End staging of “Hamlet” is directed by Lyndsey Turner.
“I can’t give you what I want to give you, which is a live performance that you’ll remember, hopefully in your minds and brains whether it’s good, bad or indifferent, rather than on your phones”, he said. In fact, he called the experience “mortifying”. When a phone goes off or when a LED screen can be seen in the dark it ruins the experience for everyone else – the majority of the audience at that performance and the actors on stage. “I am so defeated by this issue that I seriously question whether I want to work on stage anymore”.
He added: “This isn’t me blaming you, this is just me asking you to just ripple it out there, in the brilliant attractive way that you do with your amusing electronic things”.
Since it was uploaded on Friday night, the video of Cumberbatch’s speech has been viewed over 700,000 times on YouTube.
Interest in Cumberbatch’s Hamlet may be particularly high as the production, which runs until October 31, has completely sold out.
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His plea was captured on video after his performance where he said “It was one hell of a week”.
