--- title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Benedict Cumberbatch Video description: He gets doused five times in the two minute clip, and his video may be the best one yet. canonical: https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T16:02:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:41.137Z og:title: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge og:description: In the shower...in a tux... og:url: https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Benedict Cumberbatch Do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge twitter:description: In the shower...in a tux... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Benedict Cumberbatch Strips Down for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 22, 2014 4:02 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Aug 22, 2014 4:02 PM CUT Benedict Cumberbatch did the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in a suit. And in the shower. And on a motorcycle. He gets doused five times in the two-minute clip, part of the viral fundraising campaign in which people post Facebook videos of themselves getting buckets of ice water poured over their heads or donate $100 to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research. Nominated by Tom Hiddleston, the _Sherlock_ star then nominated Harvey Weinstein, Kylie Minogue and race car driver Lewis Hamilton. Let’s see if they can top Cumberbatch’s creativity and dramatic use of slow motion. The fundraising effort has raised more than [$50 million](http://time.com/3159673/als-ice-bucket-challenge-donations/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/"},"headline":"Benedict Cumberbatch Strips Down for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge","datePublished":"2014-08-22T16:02:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:41.137Z","description":"Nominated by Tom Hiddleston, the Sherlock actor has challenged Harvey Weinstein, Kylie Minogue and race car driver Lewis Hamilton","url":"https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3160643/benedict-cumberbatch-als-ice-bucket-challenge/","name":"Benedict Cumberbatch Strips Down for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge"}}]}] ```