Benedict Cumberbatch spoke to The Globe's @thatkatetaylor about playing eccentrics and outcasts.
The actor is at the #TIFF21 to accept a TIFF Tribute Award and to promote two films – The Power of the Dog and The Electrical Life of Louis Wain.
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“I play normal people as well,” insists actor Benedict Cumberbatch as he sits down for an interview during #TIFF21.
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In the new biopic, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Cumberbatch plays artist Louis Wain – who fits his pattern of playing awkward geniuses for whom society would do well to make space.
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In the gothic period drama, The Power of the Dog, he plays Phil Burbank, a viciously macho cowboy – and his arresting performance is already generating Oscar talk.
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“I think those characters that are more unique pop, because we look into them as things that are other,” Cumberbatch observed of the various eccentrics he has played.
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“But what I’m always wanting to do is break that away and show what is universal about these people, what is relatable about these people.”
Read the full interview:
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