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Benedict Cumberbatch Talks Portraying A Father’s Grief In ‘The Thing With Feathers’ & Why He Loves Producing — Berlin Film Festival
'The Thing With Feathers' Star Benedict Cumberbatch and writer-director Dylan Southern arrived in Berlin for the film's European bow.
Cumberbatch talked about how he sees grief and despair differently in his life, producing under his SunnyMarch label and also showered praise on the two young child actors that he worked with on The Thing With Feathers. “This subconscious thing, the dream state, as a kind of manifestation of grief in the film… the fact that the father has lost his wife and he realizes that and breaks down in remorse and asks for the forgiveness — it’s definitely written into the script in the psychological way, but also in a pseudo- and semi-conscious way as well. “Children, a prosthetic giant crow suit and bits of tape on the floor for a dead wife, as opposed to an actual human — there were lots of things that weren’t always the perfect conditions for being vulnerable when making the film,” said Cumberbatch.
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