Some five years ago, long before Cumberbitches formed and just before the new Sherlock aired, Benedict Cumberbatch served as a narrator for a BBC nature documentary series.
This week, a clip from that series, South Pacific, has resurfaced thanks to an excellent discovery: Mr. Cumberbatch cannot, for the life of his handsome face, pronounce “penguins.”
And it doesn’t just happen once. A supercut on YouTube shows that it happens at least five times during the series.
In other Cumberbatch-Pengwings news, one of the British actor’s new films this year is Penguins of Madagascar (wish I made this up). No word on whether or not his character — a wolf named Classified — actually says the word “penguin” in the animated film.
Watch Cumberbatch try to say “penguins” in the clip, above.
[Lead photo courtesy of FameFlynet]
[h/t Reddit]
