Benedict Cumberbatch Gave Himself Nicotine Poisoning 3 Times While Filming ‘The Power Of The Dog’

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorJonny Greenwood’s score for Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” is dark and complicated, just like its characters.Campion’s latest film has garnered critical acclaim and could land her a historic best director nomination at the Academy Awards.

Benedict Cumberbatch is getting candid about toxic masculinity.

Benedict Cumberbatch wants to see real change.

READ MORE: Benedict Cumberbatch suffered nicotine poisoning three timesJoaquin Phoenix most recently captured attention in The Joker but has a long-established career as a Hollywood heavyweight. He forged his image via method acting in several films, where he refused to break character.

Radiohead biopic, after forming a friendship with guitarist Jonny Greenwood.The actor’s next film is The Power Of The Dog, scored by Greenwood, where he plays cowboy Phil Burbank who runs a ranch in Montana with his brother George (Jesse Plemons).Speaking to NME, Cumberbatch recounts his “weird” first meeting with Greenwood and Thom Yorke after they watched his performance of Hamlet at The Barbican in 2015.“[Radiohead producer] Nigel Godrich and Edgar Wright came to see me in Hamlet,”

Benedict Cumberbatch has a real knack for playing unique, oftentimes misunderstood egomaniacs. Whether it’s Doctor Strange, Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Melrose, Julian Assange, or Khan, the actor finds a way to ground his oftentimes sociopathic characters in a real emotional truth.

Jennifer Yuma editorJane Campion will be honored with the director of the year award for her work on “The Power of the Dog” at the Palm Springs International Film Awards, taking place Jan. 6-17.Based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, “The Power of the Dog” stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a masochistic cattle rancher named Phil Burbank, whose bullying demeanor is drawn from a frontier-worn masculinity and deeply closeted sexuality.

Jon Burlingame editorOne of the most intriguing, and certainly dark and disturbing, scores of this season is Jonny Greenwood’s music for “The Power of the Dog,” filmmaker Jane Campion’s Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a surly, complicated cowboy in early 20th-century Montana.It’s one of three scores the Radiohead musician-songwriter has in end-of-year awards contention.

At this point in 2021, Marvel‘s Phase 4 is well underway, with the MCU’s new movies swiftly catching up to the Disney+ side of things that initiated proceedings earlier this year. The overarching theme of Phase 4 so far? For one, there’s a changing of the guard afoot, but things are also about to get loopy, with the multiverse becoming a narrative precedent in new shows and films.

critically acclaimed Netflix drama “The Power of the Dog.”Set in 1925, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as a charismatic rancher named Phil Burbank who, when his brother (Jesse Plemons) brings home his new wife (Kirsten Dunst) and her son (Kodi Smit-McPhee), terrorizes the trio as he inspires fear and awe.The track above is called “West Alone” and offers a tantalizing preview of Greenwood’s score, which vacillates from beautiful and melancholy to downright sinister.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNot only did Benedict Cumberbatch undergo dream analysis to prepare for his role in “The Power of the Dog,” but so did the film’s director and co-screenwriter Jane Campion.“It gives you so much confidence because whatever you find in that work it comes through you and it just feels grounded in something very real inside yourself,” Campion told me Thursday at the AFI Fest screening of her new Netflix film, “The Power of the Dog,” at TCL

Deadline’s Contenders L.A. returned for an in-person edition Sunday at the DGA Theater, with 31 buzzy awards-season titles showing off their wares in panels that featured the likes of Nicole Kidman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Hudson, Kristen Stewart, Javier Bardem, Adam McKay, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Ben Affleck, Kenneth Branagh, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, Simon Rex, Marlee Matlin, Andrew Garfield and Dakota Johnson to name a few.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kirsten Dunst are promoting their new project together!

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is about much more than a man who drew remarkable portraits of cats. According to the movie’s star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the Amazon Studios project is about an artist in Victorian London who pursues many subjects with passion: boxing, painting, composing an opera (not a very good one, says Cumberbatch) and theorizing about the mechanical workings of the world, including the mysteries of electricity.

Writer-director Jane Campion and star Benedict Cumberbatch said Paul Newman was one of the previous stars who tried to adapt Power of the Dog before them, relating the history of their new film based on Thomas Savage’s book during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles panel Sunday at the DGA Theater.

The stars of The Power of the Dog are stepping out for the movie’s latest screening!

Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that he was actually sick as a dog while filming The Power of the Dog.