Benedict Cumberbatch on The Power of the Dog, Spider-Man Fan Theories & Jimmy's Kraven Action Figure

our first catch tonight is an oscar-nominated actor who has exceeded the dreams of all the world's nerds combined he's in four marvel movies three hobbits even a star trek now he plays the villainous cowboy phil burbank in the power of the dog all right now gentlemen look see that's what you do with the cloth it's really just for wine drips oh you got that boys only for the drip now get us some food the power of the dog is in select theaters wednesday and on netflix december 1st please welcome benedict cumberbatch [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh it's good to have you here very good to see you thank you very much i have to tell you i love to hear you speak with an american accent i you know it's doctor strange etc i like it i just it amazes me i was just saying backstage how difficult it is to speak in an english accent after doing a whole day's filming of doctor strange something just happens when i kind of slide into it and it's really odd i i thought to myself i hope i want to go on stage oh i'm doing it now it's a really really really weird thing it's pretty amazing to hear that just kind of phase into america like that very kind yeah go on you face into english uh well you know what there's nothing more annoying than hearing an american do in english like oh hello and you know everybody's you know i love it though it makes me feel good about my end of things you should feel good about the fact that power of the dog i'm sure you know everybody's saying it's gonna get an oscar nomination it's actually like at the top of the list of these movies that are uh being buzzed about very nice and that's rare for a dog movie you know airbud for instance got zero nominations at all that's true this is not a life of pets it's not quite about a dog not a pet movie no no no no you know that sort of stuff is fantastic it means that all that hard work and it was hard work we got interacted by covid we had a fantastic crew down in new zealand shooting it and we were we were in suspension like the rest of the world not knowing what normal would be again and we managed to get back in there and finish it so the idea that that's now gonna get seen because people are talking about it that's that's what all this the movie is set in montana correct you did not shoot it in montana we shot it in new zealand yeah yeah it was set in 1925 montana of which there is very little left in montana that's 1925. i mean right this place in new zealand was like 360 degrees of wilderness and untouched unhumanized land and it's uh it's one of the characters in the film really it's extraordinary have you been to montana i have yeah i went to dude camp i kind of went there to dude camp yeah man yeah to to learn the life of a rancher because my my fellow does a lot of stuff he's you know he's adept with a knife uh castration he does braiding and roping he does whittling and whistling and rolling cigarettes with one hand all the hard stuff you learned castration i learned a lot of things i learned a lot of things what things did you learn i learnt uh well horse riding i sort of honed my skills on that and then how to treat a skin a hide and turn that into rope into what you use in a in a rodeo you can turn hide into rope i mean yeah i'd push yeah wow i tried with an expert randy how long were you up there with i was there for about three weeks yeah and i met some incredible folk on two different branches and i hung out with uh with randy who with his wife jen put me up in their house and we just drove around that state and met some extraordinary people whose livelihoods you know i was trying to authenticate in uh in my character wow what a thing for randy and jen to like they're up there on their ranch doing ranch stuff turning hides into rope and stuff and then you show up and you stay with them yeah yeah i think they're they're very cool about it they're they're the yeah were they things they tried to teach it you're like yeah yeah no i don't need that no nothing no no i needed all of it you did you took it all definitely i mean he's even a brilliant musician not that i played the guitar in the phone i played the banjo but even that was helpful so yeah there's nothing i shied away from him teaching me wow wow and you were working with animals and uh working with animals and just having the most profound experiences on horseback driving cattle across this beautiful landscape and working with humans who are using sometimes just sounds rather than words to direct dogs to direct cattle and in a very gentle non-1925 way this kind of you know low impact you feel like you could now handle uh a herd of cows like you could i can on your own there was a thing that happened when i was i was on a holiday recently in england and uh there was this passageway to get down to the beach and it meant going through a field the farmer's field and there were cattle in it and it wasn't long after carving so you know there were some young cows with their mums and mums are rightfully very protective of their young so there was a group of holy makers just standing there with a kind of inflatable toys and beach towels and stuff kind of looking absolutely terrified and not moving as these cattle just kind of walked towards them really aggressively and i went i've got this i kind of cleared a path and they went that was amazing not an american accent which i nearly did again that's great they were english um and uh that is kind of great it was it was weird and then they went are you better at cumberbatch and i was like goodbye the cow said that or the people get all the cows yeah they just got down on their front hooves and kind of went hello we love you in sherlock we would like to see some more in american cows as well you have another uh a movie coming out right around now as well it's out actually it's on amazon prime it's called the electrical life of louis wayne and who was who was louie wayne amazing amazing artist and illustrator of the victorian era and he's most famous for these sort of anthropomorphic cat drawings which are hysterical and say more really about us than they do about cats but he became a hugely popular figure and he had a very oh was he the guy that would draw like those kaleidoscopic yes and he moved into that kind of area as well so he was big in the sort of 60s and 70s the psychedelic era kind of picked him up as a favorite artist to kind of stare at and uh yeah he was he lived a life quite hard difficult life he found an emotional language in a way fitting in very difficult so it's about his triumphs and his hardships and uh did you move into a petsmart and learn to paint no we we we filmed a petsmart we brought cats in i mean kittens were great to work with you know they do exactly what you imagine kittens to do they play with balls of string they lick from sources of milk anything else on that kitten is just a it's just like it it you wait for hours so you're seeing nothing cows are easier than kittens hell yeah yeah yeah they are because you know you just get them out of the way that's kind of all you have to do with cows but kittens and cats rather were supposed to like jump on a plate and look mournfully at me or walk across a room and it would just take hours it's hard to explain that to them yeah it's really hard you know fair enough you know they're crazily kind of wild creatures at home we're gonna take a break and i when we come back i must ask you about um some marvel comic stuff because of course i mean it's my job all right cumberbatch is here with us we'll be right back benedict cumberbatch is with us you were here shooting reshoots of dr strange yeah yeah facial hair uh-huh do you know what the reshoots are gonna be or they just figure out what needed a little bit of work like everything with marvel that comes in fresh pretty much most mornings despite these being reshoots but um no it's really exciting and the film's shaping up to be something special you're also in the uh spider-man movie and she has i'm sure you know it's like like 350 million views for the trailer on youtube wow which is like a world record of some kind yeah and of course there are a lot of questions or a lot of theories people are interested sure jimmy i figured i'd hit you with some of them for instance some of the fans think doctor strange they think is behaving a little bit strangely and maybe he is not dr strange but he is mephisto who takes the shape and by the way every every marvel trailer the fans think it's mephisto so do you know anything about that no um andrew garfield says he's got an eye detector on this show that would be the surefire wouldn't you test the truth to some of these would you submit to it without definitely for that one yeah you would oh great oh yeah next time we'll hook you up and by the way i won't limit it to marvel questions either we will learn a lot about you oh no i'm going to have a lie detector and a tumescence monitor what's that that sounds dirty you'll look it up many people believe andrew garfield and toby mcguire will appear as spider-man in the multiverse do they yeah they do have you seen andrew garfield recently tick tick boom mm-hmm not in person no i saw him at a zoom core recently for a round table and then tick tick boom okay um uh another question where would you find more guys dressed as spider-man in that movie or out on hollywood [Laughter] here's also uh kirsten dunst uh yeah your co-star yes in this film he is uh rumored to be playing mary jane in spider-man and other mary jane really yeah nothing how about this are you aware that there's an action figure of you with two heads what's that a bonus head oh my happy face and my sad face that's that's the mephisto headlights my performance right there okay uh i just got this this is my actual corner in there as well what's that that looks like weed or something the green stuff what's that yeah that's weed that's so you eat you eat that and then and then and then do that that's what makes him think he has powers and this is i'm excited to announce this is my new uh action figure and i have to say there's we can't say much about it but i loved our scene together and i think it's going to be just jimmy's awesome and it's so exciting don't you know the rules you can't talk about what do you mean you can't talk about it no i was told that i could mention this because they do want to sell a lot of toys but you can see i mean there's me as craven the hunter which i am playing and uh so it's pretty good you know you do look a little bit like john krasinski but there we go wait are you saying john krasinski is being uh is blaine craven the hunter in this i'm just i'm just saying you look a little bit like him oh no interesting interesting well no i'm super excited and it was so much fun working with you guys what's the hell jimmy we had this conversation on day one just because you have a chat show it doesn't mean you can chat about this you know well it turns out that if when they give you the non-disclosure forms if you sign the name lionel richie on them that it doesn't it doesn't apply it's you're not legally bound to keep anything plus i'm so excited and i'm going to put that room into bed lionel richie's not in this film yeah well then i might not see it well it's very good to see i look forward to seeing you a lot more on the marvel press tour the movie is called the power of the dog it is in select theaters on wednesday and on netflix on december 1st benedict cumberbatch everybody we'll be back kevin garnett if you like that video then put a ring on it click the subscribe button below oh oh oh

Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live

Views: 905,540

Keywords: jimmy, jimmy kimmel, jimmy kimmel live, late night, talk show, funny, comedic, comedy, clip, comedian, mean tweets, Live Audience, Hollywood, interview, Benedict Cumberbatch, Actor, Dr. Strange, Phil Burbank, The power of the Dog, Netflix, Oscar Nomination, Covid-19, New Zealand, Montana, Ranching, Dude Camp, Horseback, Cattle, Louis Wain, Cats, Marvel, MCU, Spiderman, Mary Jane, Kraven the Hunter, Lionel Ritchie

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Length: 11min 41sec (701 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 11 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/crizzjcky95]

"I saw him (Andrew) in a Zoom call recently for a roundtable" interesting how he immediately says again "AND in Tick Tick Boom".

[u/drstrangedontpullout]

I'm not a Cumberbatch expert (A cumpert, if you will), but I read once that he dislikes facial hair. If he hasn't fully shaved yet, that means Multiverse of Madness reshoots are still on the menu.

Edit: He literally says there are reshoots going on, so my facial hair detective work is right.

[u/Echo_1409-]

Anyone else just not like Kimmel? Like he has no charisma to me, I genuinely feel anyone else could take his job and do a better job than him, he feels like a corporate face. He says the popular opinion that everyone else has in a sarcastic jokey manner, has like no charisma whatsoever, and in general the guests always seem.. I can't put my tongue on the word, stunted, or wooden, when they're with Kimmel. Which I guess is to be expected since they don't have a lot to work with.

I know people clown on Fallon all the time for the "fake laugh", but any time I catch that show, whatever guest is on seems like they're having a good time with him. I just dont get that with Kimmel, he just seems like an unlikable dude.

Of course, I don't know the guy personally, I just figure since I get the ability to vent about it I'll use it lmao

[u/Parking-Balance111]

Jimmy Kimmel: “Many ppl believe that Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire will appear as Spider-Men in the multiverse.”

Benedict Cumberbatch: “Do they?”

[u/drstrangedontpullout]

Cumberbatch's reaction when Kimmel tells him some fans are theorizing Strange is Mephisto in No Way Home lmao (timestamp: 8:10)

[u/drstrangedontpullout]

There's something I both like and dislike about his Doctor Strange accent and it's the fact that he doesn't sound like he's from a specific place. It's the generic American accent on most pop songs, the one taught to people learning English as a second language.

It sort of makes sense for Stephen, who likely traveled around and had his accent change, but I'd like to hear more regional accents in movies, tbh.

[u/drstrangedontpullout]

Highlights:

(9:34) "Are you aware there's an action figure of you?"

"With two heads? What's that?"

"Your bonus head."

"My happy face and my sad face?"

"That's the Mephisto head."

(9:47) [Cumberbatch points at Doctor Strange action figure] "Is that Marijuana in there as well?"

"What's that?"

"That looks like weed or something. The green stuff, what's that?"

"Yeah, that's weed. That's what makes him think he has powers."

[u/Infradead27]

What's up with the Kraven The Hunter action figure with NWH logo on the box?

[u/Spider-Cyam]

The way he rolled his eyes at the Kirsten Dunst rumour looked pretty legit... Then again, they are talking about his film getting an Oscar so could just be misdirection