
Campion asked Cumberbatch to employ the Method acting technique and not break character while they were filming. That’s not to say that he didn’t go through something uniquely emotional.

How often are you able to do that if you experience real pain in life in those situations?” “Whatever you go to or whatever you use of yourself, forget pain. “There’s so much catharsis in what we do,” Cumberbatch continued, while seated center stage on the panel alongside moderator by Kathryn Hahn and his colleagues on the film, Campion, Dunst, Smit-McPhee, editor Peter Sciberras and cinematographer Ari Wegner. How Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Found Emotional Repression Through Music in 'The Power of the Dog' Score Based on the novel by Thomas Savage, Power of the Dog finds Cumberbatch playing Phil Burbank, a charismatic yet troubled rancher who torments his brother (Plemons), his surprise sister-in-law (Dunst) and her young son (Smit-McPhee).

His experience is the opposite, especially on the Jane Campion film that cast him opposite Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee. “I fucking love my job, and we’re so lucky to do it,” Benedict Cumberbatch declared on Thursday night during a Q&A inside TCL Chinese Theatre following the AFI Film Festival premiere of his latest film, The Power of the Dog.Ĭumberbatch made the statement as a way to express displeasure for how often actors talk about suffering for the craft.
