Benedict Cumberbatch Details Awkward Madonna Encounter!

Benedict Cumberbatch gets up close and personal on the cover of British GQ‘s January 2014 issue, on newsstands now!

Here’s what the 37-year-old The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug actor had to share with the mag:

On finding love: “It is harder [meeting women], because people think they know more about you than they actually do. And you can’t control that… you can’t control perceptions of you.”

On his strange meeting with Madonna: “She said, ‘You’re the one with the strange name’. I said, ‘Yes, I am, Madonna’”

On not having time for “posh-baiting”: “All the posh-baiting that goes on…it’s so predictable, so domestic, so dumb. I’m an upper middle-class kid. I know that’s counted as posh, but then I know people who I would call posh, and I don’t talk like them.”

For more from Benedict, visit GQ-magazine.co.uk. Bigger cover inside….