Benedict Cumberbatch got “knee-deep in margaritas” with Stephen Hawking and their night out sounds amazing

Benedict Cumberbatch is one busy guy. Of course, he’s in Marvel’s Doctor Strange and has been promoting it everywhere. He and costar Tilda Swinton even played Jenga — while answering questions from fans — and it was amazing.

But the latest on Cumberbatch? His revelation about a night he went out drinking with Professor Stephen Hawking.

Of course, you probably remember that Cumberbatch played Hawking in the 2004 TV movie of the same name.

But back to their night out.

“We were at the Royal Society for a discussion on the future of science and it was a long night, so we decided to go for a drink, Cumberbatch said on a recent episode of the BBC’s The Graham Norton Show, reported People. “We got knee-deep in margaritas and it was at that drunken moment I thought I would tell him I was playing Khan in Star Trek.

Cumberbatch only told Hawking, he said, and “It made him smile.

Nothing like some in-your-face honesty, amirite?!

Here’s a pic of Cumberbatch with Hawking from March 2015, when the two attended a reception and dinner in support of the Motor Neurone Disease Association at Buckingham Palace in London — because we doubt they have photographic evidence from their margarita night!

Speaking of nights out, don’t forget — Cumberbatch will be hosting SNL ~for the first time ever~ on Saturday, November 5th. We’re ready. Are you?!