Benedict Cumberbatch has a fear that he could be “patient zero” when it comes to bringing the coronavirus to the United States.
In a new interview while discussing his new movie, The Mauritanian, the 44-year-old actor opened up about the fear. He had been shooting the movie in Cape Town, South Africa, when he became “terribly ill with what he believes now was COVID-19″, and although he kept filming, Benedict was “throwing up between takes.” “I was incredibly ill, to the point that when all this COVID stuff suddenly broke in the new year, I was thinking, ‘Oh my god, was I actually patient zero?’” Benedict wondered. “I was so ill — it was borderline pneumonia.” There had been an ongoing search into which person could be patient zero.
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