Benedict Cumberbatch: ‘The Power of the Dog’

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Academy Award nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch, who is up for Best Actor for his portrayal of Phil Burbank in Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog.” Cumberbatch is also currently reprising his role as Dr. Strange in “Spiderman: No Way Home.” Cumberbatch talks about the superhero’s evolution while trying not to reveal plot spoilers for the upcoming “Dr. Strange” film. He discusses the central role physicality plays in his portrayals of both real life and fictional characters. And he talks about the two hardest days filming “The Power of the Dog.”

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to the treatment, the Endores Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. My guest today, well, let's see,
0:19.6	maybe you've seen him in such real-life roles as Dominic
0:22.2	Cumming or Gravo Wynne or Louis Wayne or Thomas Edison or Alan Turing or Satan.
0:28.7	He's real?
0:29.8	That's contentious.
0:31.2	To some of us in the United States, or perhaps as Dr. Stephen Strange and the Dred Dormammu.
0:37.8	And, of course, his most recent role is Phil Burbank in the adaptation of The Power of the Dog.
0:41.8	I'm, of course, talking about Benedict Cumberbatch.
0:44.0	I love to interview, Ben, but I think we're at a time with an introduction.
0:46.7	Sorry about all that.
0:47.6	You work too much.
0:50.2	It's your kind.
0:51.3	You're too kind.
0:52.6	Yeah, that's quite a roll call.
0:58.3	I've never talked to you really about seeing you on stage before,
1:03.1	and I got to see you doing Danny's Frankenstein, which was really something.
1:04.4	Thank you.
1:05.1	Well, it was.
1:06.8	I mean, just as an experience from my point of view,
1:09.1	and I got to see a little bit of that.
1:11.7	As much as I could watch a film version of what we thought we were doing on stage. I find that a little bit difficult. I find it hard to watch
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