-Benedict, I saw you do a magic trick...
-Oh. -...on somewhere online,
and I didn´t even know that you were a magician.
But I was -- -Neither did I, Jimmy.
[ Laughs ]
-But I was wondering if you could do the trick...
-Oh, God. -...for us tonight.
-Oh, God, -It involves --
it involves water. -Oh, okay.
Well, last time I did this, I had a magician
off camera teaching me [laughing] how to do it.
So, I´ll give it a go.
How´s best to do it? Shall I come around there?
-Or can I do it from here? -Yeah, sure, yeah.
-So I´ll be your assistant?
-I can´t promise that this will work.
-Yeah, can I have a bit of music please?
-Do you want to be on this side or that side or does it matter?
-Okay, okay. -Which side?
-I don´t think it matters as long as I´ve got...
-All right, good. -I don´t want to be to near
electronics in case it goes wrong.
-Yeah, okay. -Ladies and gentlemen,
here we have a bottle of water. -Okay.
-[ American pronunciation ] Bottle of water for you guys.
-Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, America, yeah, America.
Water in England, but maybe it was...
Could have been imported. -Could be.
-Could be water, but now it´s water.
-So I just broke -- I just broke the seal,
but that doesn´t matter. Look. There´s the bubble.
It´s a bottle of water, bottle of water, water.
Uh, I´m opening a bottle of water.
Could be imported. Might be. We don´t know.
It´s an unbranded bottle. -Unbranded bottle.
-It´s not part of the magic. Not part of the magic sort.
Okay, so. Uh...
-The trick gets better than this, you guys.
Trust me. This is not the trick.
-That´s it. It´s a bottle of water
-It´s him holding water. -Thank you.
-That´s the whole trick.
-Okay, so, if I get this right.
If I think really hard,
I should be able to --
See, I´m shaking because I´m so nervous.
I should be able to take my hand away
and no water will come out.
Oooh.
It might not work. It might not work.
It might not work. Ahh.
There we go. Okay. [ Cheers and applause ]
Got to keep this cup in case it does come out.
If I concentrate -- -Want me to hold it?
-No. I think I got it.
If I concentrate really hard,
the water should then come out.
There you go. -That´s un -- how --
-That´s a normal bottle of water.
It´s a normal bottle, and it´s not -- it´s, you know...
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That´s what I´m talking about right there.
-No water. Yeah, look. No water.
-Benedict Cumberbatch, everybody.
-Wait a minute. Where -- where did it go?
-"The Current War" opens November 24th.
When we come back, Benedict and I are playing a fun game.
Stick around. How did you just -- wait.
-The water went into that. Now, where the water go?
-I don´t understand.
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