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Benedict Cumberbatch: Actors Are ‘Really F—ing Weird Creatures. We Want to Be in Extreme Situations Sometimes to Tell a Real Story’

Benedict Cumberbatch joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss playing the extreme grief of his new movie.

Benedict Cumberbatch touched down at the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance ahead of the world premiere of his new drama film, “The Thing With the Feathers.” Written and directed by Dylan Southern from the book “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers” by Max Porter, the movie casts Cumberbatch as a grieving father struggling to raise his two sons after the sudden loss of his wife. Cumberbatch spoke to Variety for a Sundance cover story before the festival started and said he was attracted to “The Thing With the Feathers” because “it shines a light on male grief.” “You have a man facing up to his limitations as he deals with the pressure of work, life, raising kids, all while his sense of self is just brutalized by grief.

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