In The Thing With Feathers, Benedict Cumberbatch discusses his experience portraying a heartbroken father.
Benedict attended the Sundance Film Festival’s European premiere with Dylan Southern, the film’s writer-director.
Benedict portrays a young man in The Thing With Feathers who is raising two sons and lamenting the death of his wife while also losing his sense of reality.
Grief is about letting go, and this movie is largely about letting go. “What was there is no longer there,” Cumberbatch remarked.
You could say that as actors, we engage in that activity. In a deeper sense, you want to learn as an artist or as a person, not just take this work home in a literal sense.
