Confronted with the deleted “Star Trek Into Darkness” scene during an interview on “Conan” later that same year, Benedict Cumberbatch shared that he had spent quite a bit of time sculpting his physique before stepping into the on-set shower but clarified that he was not upset after J.J. Abrams informed him that it had been taken out due to a lack of cohesion. “I thought, ‘Oh, well, never mind.’ A lot of chicken I ate and a lot of other things and just a hell of a lot of working out, and that’s gone, but that’s fine. That’s how you roll when you’re doing movies,” he said.
The actor then suggested he felt slightly mortified when he first heard whisperings about Abrams’ May 2013 interview, relating, “Somebody said, ‘Do you know you’ve just been on Conan and you’ve been half naked in the shower scene?’ So I watched it, and I was like, ‘Damn it. Damn it. The man’s just sort of thrown me out there, under the bus.'” The host then had Cumberbatch watch the edited scene, making the actor appear uncomfortable.
