The Power of the Dog comes at a moment when Cumberbatch is ubiquitous onscreen. The role is a dramatic departure for the 45-year-old actor, who is best known for playing cerebral, refined characters, men like Sherlock Holmes on the BBC series, mathematician Alan Turing in Cumberbatch’s Oscar-nominated performance in 2014’s The Imitation Game and neurosurgeon-turned-magician Doctor Strange in the Marvel films. 10 as part of a tribute to the actor following premieres in Venice and Telluride - its acceptance to the three marquee fall film festivals already positioning the feature for a strong awards run, with Cumberbatch’s performance central to the campaign (he did, after many tries, nail the whistle). The Power of the Dog will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. “It’s a lesson in how tangled up you can become, how toxic masculinity can become if your true identity is not allowed or tolerated or celebrated or accepted,” Cumberbatch says of the movie, which Netflix will release theatrically Nov. The Power of the Dog, Campion’s first film to feature a male protagonist, is about the crushing weight of performing manhood. This is not how you want things to go when you’re trying to play a feared and charismatic cowboy. At the crucial moment, Smit-McPhee remembers hearing a hollow wheezing noise coming from his co-star and then Cumberbatch muttering “Damn it!” under his breath.īenedict Cumberbatch in Jane Campion's 'The Power of the Dog': Film Review | Venice 2021 “I did it again and again and again,” Cumberbatch says. For the first time in his career, the actor was staying in character during a shoot, and he had watched countless YouTube videos on whistling to prepare for the scene, practicing every day on the drive to set. ![]() But for one tense scene on horseback in which his character acts as a menacing mentor of ranch life to a pensive young man played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, Cumberbatch was supposed to whistle to summon a dog. For his role as a 1925 Montana rancher with a cruel streak in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, the British actor had already learned a host of rustic new skills, including how to play the banjo, how to roll a cigarette with one hand and how to castrate a bull. Early in 2020, in rugged countryside in New Zealand’s Otago region, Benedict Cumberbatch was immersed in a test of masculinity.
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