Penelope Cruz and Benedict Cumberbatch on Masterful Directors, Imposter Syndrome and Smoking With Meryl Streep
variety.comPenélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Power of the Dog”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios.
For more, click here.Benedict Cumberbatch is so over Zoom. But a new spike in COVID-19 cases with the omicron variant has meant that his planned sit-down with Penélope Cruz will instead unfold over a screen.
It’s a change that’s causing some technical hurdles. A vacationing Cruz (who is somewhere in Spain) is battling a weak internet connection, and Cumberbatch is grappling with instructions that require him to upload video to the cloud, check his microphone levels and make sure that his iPad battery doesn’t run out. “Is there an actor who enjoys this process?” he asks with an exaggerated sigh.But once the conversation gets going, the two performers — who briefly appeared together in 2016’s “Zoolander 2” — quickly fall into a familiar rhythm as they talk about their most recent films roles.
In Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” Cumberbatch stars as a sexually repressed cowboy. Cruz, too, is harboring her own secrets as a single mother in Pedro Almodóvar’s drama “Parallel Mothers.”BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: This is so surreal.
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