Best Of: Benedict Cumberbatch / Brian Cox

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🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Jane Campion's Western The Power of the Dog as Phil Burbank, a hyper-masculine cattle rancher living on the plains of Montana in the 1920s. We talk about how body odor helped him channel the character, toxic masculinity, and filming on location in breathtaking landscapes of New Zealand.

Maureen Corrigan reviews one of this year's most anticipated books, To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara.

Succession actor Brian Cox says ruthless business tycoon Logan Roy is one of the most extraordinary roles he's ever played: "He is a misanthrope [who] is very disappointed with the human experiment."

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0:00.0	From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:06.8	Today we talk with Benedict Cumberbatch, star of the new film The Power of the Dog.
0:11.7	He was voted best actor for his performance by the National Society of Film Critics.
0:16.3	He's also in the new film Spider-Man No Way Home as Dr. Strange.
0:20.9	Many Americans were introduced to him as the star of the BBC series Sherlock.
0:26.0	Also we hear from Brian Cox, star of the HBO series Succession.
0:30.5	He plays the ruthless patriarch and a family that runs a conglomerate which includes a conservative
0:35.7	cable news network.
0:37.6	Cox has written a new memoir that begins with nearly dying in childbirth.
0:42.1	The drama on and off stage and screen continues from there.
0:46.2	A Marine Carrigan reviews one of this year's most anticipated books, Two Paradise by
0:51.4	Hanya Yana Gajara.
0:55.2	My guess Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the new film The Power of the Dog.
0:59.4	The film was named one of the 10 best films of 2021 by the American Film Institute, appeared
1:04.6	on many critics 10 best lists and won this year's Golden Globe for Best Movie Drama.
1:10.4	Cumberbatch was named best actor for his performance in the film by the National Society of Film
1:14.6	Critics and by Film Critics Associations in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort
1:19.5	Worth and the San Francisco Bay Area.
1:22.4	You can also see Cumberbatch now in Spider-Man No Way Home as Dr. Strange and he's just
1:28.1	completing work on the new Dr. Strange movie.
1:31.9	Cumberbatch was nominated for an Oscar for his starring role in the film The Immutation
1:36.0	Game based on the story of Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who was instrumental
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