Benedict Cumberbatch takes on something even Sherlock can’t solve: male grief
Famous for playing Sherlock, Doctor Strange and men who can always find solutions, Benedict Cumberbatch is immersed in a loss that he can’t remedy in his latest film, The Thing with Feathers .
“I feel that it's important ... to bring the subject of male grief into the culture and examine what happens when matriarchy is absent,” the British actor, 49, tells Yahoo of the film, which is out now. “What that journey is, how we do or don't best deal with it and what the outcome can be.”
Cumberbatch plays Dad, a graphic novelist whose wife dies suddenly. He’s trying to usher their two young sons through the turmoil, but he can barely stay afloat. He wrestles with the darkness as a chilling presence — a crow born from his own illustrations — haunts him in their home.
