Benedict Cumberbatch shows his ruthless side in the first full trailer for “The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s Western for Netflix, and he does so by being needlessly cruel to a boy played by Kodi Smit-McPhee.
“The Power of the Dog” is Campion’s first film with a male protagonist and it grapples with the thorny aspects of masculinity and ego.
Alongside Cumberbatch in the film is a cast that includes Kirsten Dunst, Thomasin McKenzie, Frances Conroy, Jesse Plemons, Keith Carradine, Peter Carroll and Adam Beach.
Cumberbatch’s character Phil Burbank is described as “brutally beguiling” and a “cowboy as raw as his hides.”