In honor of BenedictCumberbatch's 46th birthday, revisit his W Magazine cover story where he talks about why he never thought he'd be a leading man.
I heard that Jane Campion wanted to meet. I heard what the project was called. I read the book, I read the script, and then I met her. I was always going to say yes, no matter what the ask was, to be frank. I just think she's truly a living icon, an extraordinary filmmaker, and I was less concerned or aware that it was her first film in 11 years or her first male protagonist. That didn't matter to me. I just wanted to work with her.
How did you train yourself to ride horses and wrangle cattle and make it look like you’ve been doing it your whole life? I think it was integral to convince and authenticate how lived an experience it was for him to do that, to manage the animals, the men, the land, the weather, the braiding, the cigarette rolling, the whittling. I never quite mastered the one-hand cigarette rolling. It's harder than most people think.
He's knocked around by the hardness of the world, this Victorian, stay-in-your-lane kind of status quo, this conservative society of prescribed behavior. He, now, would be a much-celebrated artist in the vein, I think, of someone like Grayson Perry. But in his day, he had to be an extraordinary hero, in a very quiet way. And that's what really drew me to him. He persisted and lasted a long time.Yeah, I was an art scholar at my school. I was quite good. I did it a lot and loved it.
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