![]() “Today there would be disinfectant and bio-gloves involved, but back then this is close to how it would have been done.” The fact that Phil doesn’t wear gloves in the scene is a pivotal character detail directly from Thomas Savage’s novel, but it also has a practical purpose. “The scene is pretty accurate especially for the time depicted,” Russ tells Tudum. ![]() Warning: The real deal may be a little graphic. “It’s such a big step for him.” It’s an even bigger step for the bull!Īll of this got us wondering: Just how much did Cumberbatch learn? How hard is it to castrate a bull? Is his scalpel technique, dare we say it, Oscar-worthy? We reached out to Patti Russ, co-owner of Montana’s 4-R Ranch, to find out. Even his director is bragging about him: “He had to do castrating, and learn how to do everything,” Campion said in an interview with IndieWire. (We should note that for the purposes of the film, Cumberbatch used a prosthetic bull scrotum, not unlike Mark Wahlberg’s in Boogie Nights). “Everything you see in the film, I learned,” he told Variety, adding, “‘Learned’ is a big word.” In the mark of a true cultural flashpoint, PETA even got on his case about it. On Jimmy Kimmel, Cumberbatch dodged the question elegantly. And for some reason, the subject just keeps coming up. That’s right: Just as his character does on-screen, the Oscar nominee had to know how to neuter a fully grown male cow. ![]() He also went (very) deep into character on the New Zealand set, learning how to actually castrate a bull. Sure, he didn’t bathe for a week, developed nicotine poisoning from smoking too many cigarettes and learned to whittle, but that’s not balls. As he hits the awards trail for his blistering performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, there’s one piece of prep for the role that Benedict Cumberbatch just can’t stop bringing up. ![]()
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