The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is about much more than a man who drew remarkable portraits of cats. According to the movie’s star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the Amazon Studios project is about an artist in Victorian London who pursues many subjects with passion: boxing, painting, composing an opera (not a very good one, says Cumberbatch) and theorizing about the mechanical workings of the world, including the mysteries of electricity.“He felt this thing all his life about electricity,” Cumberbatch said on the panel for the movie at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event Sunday.
But “the real electricity is love,” continued the actor. “That’s the flow, that’s the course that runs through his entire life.
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