Benedict Cumberbatch strips down in steamy ad…you won’t guess why-Pierra Willix-Entertainment – Metro

Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest screen role has seen him strip down for a good cause.

Throughout his career, the 48-year-old actor has starred in Hawking, Sherlock, 12 Years a Slave and Doctor Strange.

Some of his past screen roles have seen him play villains, with the actor now doing the same to highlight how Brits can use their pension funds to tackle climate change.

In the new campaign created on behalf of the group Make My Money Matter, Benedict has stripped down to a towel and declares he’s ‘so hot right now’.

In the ad, he plays a chief executive named Benedict Lumberjack who is enjoying a sauna session and thanks people for helping destroy the environment.

‘The business of deforestation is on fire and it’s all thanks to you,’ the character declares.

Benedict Cumberbatch has declared he’s ‘so hot right now’ (Picture: Make My Money Matter/ PA Wire)

The actor is playing a villain businessman in an ad to tackle climate change (Picture: Make My Money Matter/ PA Wire)

‘We’ve taken billions of your hard-earned pounds and used them to fuel our exploits through the Amazon and beyond.

‘The money from your pension has helped scorch, slash and burn entire rainforests, and our profits are growing like, well, wildfire.

‘Some parts of the world are literally burning, but you know, it’s just the bits that nobody cares about. Look, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the rainforest.’

His spine-tingling role as Benedict Lumberjack is truly terrifying (Picture: Make My Money Matter/ PA Wire)

The ad ends with him declaring ‘this is lit’ and watching a forest burn (Picture: Make My Money Matter/PA Wire)

The terrifying businessman then tells people to ‘not change a thing’ and keep their pension cash ‘pouring in’ so they can ‘keep the fires of profit burning’.

After a spine-tingling declaration that ‘this is lit’ he then slides on a pair of sunglasses and sighs deeply in satisfaction before tuning to watch a forest burning just outside the sauna’s windows.

As the description for the ad explains, £300 billion of UK pension savers’ money is linked to deforestation across the world.  

The role is one of the actor’s most spine-tingling ever (Picture: Daniele Venturelli/ Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)

Research from the campaign group, which was co-founded by Richard Curtis, also found UK pension schemes invest around £88 billion in fossil fuel companies.

It then goes on to say that two-thirds of the largest UK pension providers are yet to publish policies to address deforestation but that customers can push for this to make a difference.

Last year Olivia Colman appeared in an ad for the group, playing a latex-wearing oil executive called Oblivia Coalmine.

At the time she said the ‘important campaign’ highlights the ‘shocking impacts of our pensions’.

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