Benedict Cumberbatch won the Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival on Monday.
“He is one of the most versatile and charismatic actors in today’s film,” said festival director Christian Jungen.
“I like the idea of continuing to do things that don’t retire,” Cumberbatch said.
“I’m lucky enough to be the president of a drama school and see their hopes and future with my eyes and realize that 90% of them may not have a career because the actors are pretty shocking. It’s a great privilege to be able to do that.
Two-time Academy Award nominees for “The Imitation Game” and “The Power of the Dog” moved their Zurich audience with “The Thing With Feathers.”
“I’m incredibly proud of this film.”
Written and directed by Dylan Southern, inspired by Max Porter’s book Sorrow is Feathered, Cumberbatch is considered a grieving father, and after losing his wife, he raises two sons.
In a previous interview with Variety, the actor praised the film for “shedding light on men’s sadness.”
“There is a man who is facing his limits to deal with the pressures of work, life, raising children.
In Zurich he added: “If you lean on subjects like male emotions, sadness, family, or anything like that, it’s good for culture, especially on this day and age.”
Later he stated: “There are now many kids who didn’t have the right love running through the world, and that creates a lot of toxic rage.”
Post “Sherlock” – that mention saw the audience erupt with spontaneous applause – Cumberbatch won the “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”, “12 Years of Slave” and “Patrick Melrose” raves – he voiced Smaug in “Hobbit”. “It was like a kid, ignoring the fact that others were watching,” Marvel also called, offering him a piece of “Doctor Strange.”
“It was pretty exciting, and I dived deep into the comics. I went: “Wait a second. This guy is pretty misogynistic. He has lots of chest hair. This guy needs a makeover!” But this idea of bringing true spirituality to the tent pole franchise opens up the idea that you might think you’ll control the world, but everyone can become healers, and we heal others and ourselves…
He also loved “the physical transformation of entering that superhero form.” “The idea of playing in that big sandbox and being able to be loose and free in scripts, even in the middle of this multi-million dollar franchise’s juggernaut, is extraordinary. It’s the ball. That’s what I’ve learned.
Looking back on his famous collaboration, he said: “I was lucky (I) to work as an actor, but at this level I’m extremely lucky,” he said.
“You intervene and don’t know what the ride would be like. I had no expectations – I wanted to have my experience with them. On the first day of the Spielberg film, my commander’s field charges for ‘action’. “I thought this was a movie.”
Cumberbatch, alongside Andrea Cornwell, Leah Clark and Adam Ackland, produced “The Thing With Feathers.”
“I had some practical reasons (to produce) like I wanted to create an environment for the crew and creatives that people would like to return.”
“What’s really exciting is when we’re in the room again, first, at the beginning, and again when we’re in the room when we deliver it to the audience. As we do today, we’re cooking.
He also apologized to the audience.
“I was getting three hours of sleep. I accuse Noel and Liam Gallagher of being brilliant,” he said freshly at the Oasis. “Clair Foy was there too. It was great.”
