Benedict Cumberbatch weighs in on straight actors in gay roles ahead of ‘Power of the Dog’ release

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually repressed cowboy in the 1920s — when homosexuality was widely stigmatized and in many places, criminalized — in the upcoming Netflix film “The Power of the Dog.”

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a sexually repressed cowboy in the 1920s — when homosexuality was widely stigmatized and in many places, criminalized — in the upcoming Netflix film “The Power of the Dog.”