Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorNot only did Benedict Cumberbatch undergo dream analysis to prepare for his role in “The Power of the Dog,” but so did the film’s director and co-screenwriter Jane Campion.“It gives you so much confidence because whatever you find in that work it comes through you and it just feels grounded in something very real inside yourself,” Campion told me Thursday at the AFI Fest screening of her new Netflix film, “The Power of the Dog,” at TCL Chinese Theatre.In “The Power of the Dog,” based on Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name, Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a wealthy rancher in 1925 Montana who grieves for Bronco Henry, his late mentor, best friend and probably lover.
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