Penélope Cruz And Benedict Cumberbatch Talk Working With ‘Master’ Directors

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There’s nothing like working with a true visionary to bring out the best in an actor. In the new episode of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, “Parallel Mothers” star Penélope Cruz and “The Power Of The Dog” star Benedict Cumberbatch sit down for a chat. READ MORE: Penélope Cruz Explains Her And Javier Bardem’s Strict ‘No Social Media’ Rule For Their Children In the conversation, the actors talk about getting to work with “master” directors like Pedro Almodóvar and Jane Campion on their respective films. “We rehearsed four and a half months.

I love having directors that want to give you that time,” Cruz says of Almodóvar’s process. “I enjoy every single moment of the process with him — of trying everything, making mistakes, not being afraid of doing it all wrong.” “I had a similar experience with Jane,” Cumberbatch says. “It wasn’t just rehearsing.

It was just letting the character marinate, talking about him, trying to discover him and his past. And like you said, all the kinds of skill acquisition I had to master, from the accent to the roping to banjo playing and whittling.

But really the most important thing was just excavating him and his psyche. The only time I’ve really experienced that before, certainly not in a film, was in the theatre.” Cruz adds, “Pedro and Jane have something in common that is very rare.