but we might be getting more of him sooner than we thought — at least if Benedict Cumberbatch's latest comments are to be believed. On the red carpet for the premiere of his new film "The Thing ...

The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that. It made me go, "Oh, right, yeah, I could die at any moment,"' Cumberbatch admitted. 'I was throwing myself out of planes, taking all sorts of risks.