He inadvertently caused offence while discussing racial inequality in entertainment for non-white actors.
Benedict Cumberbatch has called himself an "idiot" and apologised for describing black actors as "coloured" during a televised debate about the lack of diversity on British TV screens.
Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters
Cumberbatch was on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS when he said:
I think as far as coloured actors go, it gets really different in the UK, and a lot of my friends have had more opportunities here [in America] than in the UK, and that's something that needs to change. Something's gone wrong, we're not representative enough in our culture of different races and that really does need to step up a pace.
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