Benedict Cumberbatch News Update: 'It's Mortifying' Actor Asks Fans to Stop Photographing Him on Stage

Benedict Cumberbatch is speaking to fans on Saturday after a show of Hamlet at the Barbican Theater asking them to put off their cameras while the play is going on.

The Sherlocke Holmes actor was caught on video by a fan who immediately posted it online which has been shared by netizens since then.

"Can I ask you all a huge favor? I can see cameras. I can see red lights in the auditorium, and it may not be any of you here that did that but it's blindingly obvious like that one there, that little red light, it's very very obvious.

"I could see a red light in about the third row on the right, it's mortifying, and there's nothing less supportive or enjoyable as an actor (than) being on stage experiencing that," the actor said in front of his fans.

Cumberbatch is said to have experienced being stopped twice in saying his lines on Saturday with the show's 'technical difficulties.'

The actor further urged his fans to spread the word in social media to alert incoming patrons to observe the practice.

This is not the first time that somebody from the theater condemned the use of cameras to take shots of actors on stage.

The Wallstreet Journal recalled a similar incident in 2013 when James McAvoy stopped in delivering his lines to yell at a fan who is caught filming the play, 'Macbeth' at Trafalgar Studios.

Kevin Spacy also lost his temper towards one person in the audience whose phone rang during 'Clarence Darrow.'

"For me, a ringing phone or an LED light is akin to a usurping of the performance's power. It breaks the spell of an audience as a communal force; it says, 'I'm more important than this experience is, and screw you if you don't like it," Peter Marks, a theater critic of The Washington Post's who also thinks that phones can be 'ruinous' to the overall stage's atmosphere in a report by The Atlantic.

Benedict Cumberbatch had his first performance for Hamlet in August 5. Due to the actor's presence, the play is one of the most sought-after events in London with tickets costing up to $2,300 (£1,500), CNN said.