“I’m trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here,” Cumberbatch said at a BAFTA Film Sessions event.
of the podcast WTF, Elliott called the movie a"piece of s---" when host Marc Maron asked him whether he liked"The Power of the Dog," likening the cowboys in the film to Chippendales dancers.
Cumberbatch — who plays Phil Burbank, a closeted gay man, in Jane Campion's neo-Western psychodrama — said he's “trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here.” “Someone really took offense to — I haven’t heard it, so it’s unfair for me to comment in detail on it — to the West being portrayed in this way,” he said during a“These people still exist in our world,” he said.
Cumberbatch added that there was “no harm in looking at a character to get to the root causes of that” and that “this is a very specific case of repression, but also due to an intolerance for that true identity that Phil is that he can’t fully be.” Representatives for Cumberbatch, Elliott and Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment.