Jane Campion on her Oscars frontrunner The Power of the Dog and the canny casting of Benedict Cumberbatch
ABCThe Oscars 2022 nominees won't be announced until February 8, but at time of writing, two films are topping experts' Best Picture predictions — and one of them is The Power of the Dog: a Montana-set western starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a rancher with a cruel streak, streaming now on Netflix. "When I did the work of adapting the story, I kept going back to that experience of that first read of the novel, and saying, 'Well I've got to trust that experience, and try and lay this film out at this point in the same way, and hope that people will have the same experience I did — which is they just don't know what's happening here." "As Peter arrived at the ranch, I remember thinking, 'Uh-oh, something really bad's gonna happen'," Campion recalls of reading the novel for the first time. "I had a list we had a list … it's almost you don't need a casting agent, everybody knows who could finance a film — and so the list isn't particularly long. "One of the reasons is that when someone has to put an enormous effort to get there with the part — because they're not American, didn't grow up with horses or whatever all the other requirements are — they tend to commit deeper … It's not in their back pocket, they've got to really stretch themselves for it.
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