Benedict Cumberbatch responded to Sam Elliott's criticisms of ThePowerOfTheDog: 'The more we look under the hood of toxic masculinity and try to discover the root causes of it, the bigger chances we have of dealing with it.'
Benedict Cumberbatch has responded to Sam Elliott's vitriolic comments about his new movie The Power of the Dog. The film, which premiered in theaters in November 2021 and on Netflix in December 2021, is a psychological Western drama following Cumberbatch's character Phil Burbank, a ranch owner who struggles with his repressed sexuality in 1925 Montana.
I'm trying very hard not to say anything about a very odd reaction that happened the other day on a radio podcast over here. These people still exist in our world. Whether it's on our doorstep or whether it's down the road or whether it's someone we meet in a bar or pub or on the sports field, there is aggression and anger and frustration and an inability to control or know who you are in that moment that causes damage to that person and, as we know, damage to those around them.
The more we look under the hood of toxic masculinity and try to discover the root causes of it, the bigger chances we have of dealing with it when it arises with our children.