The Power of the Dog follows a charismatic, but abrasive rancher named Phil Burbank (Cumberbatch). He taunts a boy named Peter Gordon (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and his mother, Rose (Kirsten Dunst).

Benedict Cumberbatch had to strip down for his latest role as a rancher in Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog Benedict Cumberbatch is leaving little to the imagination in his latest film.

Cumberbatch used to take on demanding roles to avoid being pigeonholed. For "The Power of the Dog," the impulse was different. Over the past decade, one that has found Benedict Cumberbatch ...

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This is FRESH AIR. Benedict Cumberbatch is nominated for a best actor Oscar for his role in the Jane Campion film "The Power Of The Dog." The film has received 12 Academy Award nominations ...

Benedict Cumberbatch knows you have questions about that “Power of the Dog” ending. He has questions too. Maybe they’re the same ones. But before he dives in — and this is a man prone to ...

Benedict Cumberbatch is defending “The Power of the Dog” against criticisms made last week by actor Sam Elliott, who called Jane Campion’s Oscar contender a “piece of shit” in part ...

The Power of the Dog sees Cumberbatch playing Phil Burbank, who is a disagreeable man hiding a plethora of emotion and pain underneath his tough exterior. He bullies a young man named Peter Gordon ...

Benedict Cumberbatch has responded to criticism against Jane Campion's Western "The Power of the Dog" and his own Oscar-nominated portrayal of rancher Phil Burbank. Speaking as part of BAFTA’s ...

Telluride: Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee parse the specific challenges of their roles in Jane Campion's evocative new Western. Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee are ready to have the ...

For his The Power of the Dog role of Phil Burbank—a hyper-masculine, repressed rancher in Montana— Benedict Cumberbatch went to ‘dude school’ to learn such old world cowboy skills as ...

In his new film, The Power of the Dog, British actor Benedict Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a hyper-masculine cattle rancher living on the plains of Montana in the 1920s. In the novel upon which ...