Benedict Cumberbatch Talks Playg a Reprsed Gay Character

Contents:

• IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG? NETFLIX MOVIE SPOILERS
• IS PHIL GAY IN POWER OF THE DOG?
• IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG?
• ‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’ WAS INSPIRED BY THE TE STORY OF A GAY MAN IN THE 1920S
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'

IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG? NETFLIX MOVIE SPOILERS

Is Phil gay The Power of the Dog?

IS PHIL GAY IN POWER OF THE DOG?

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IS PHIL GAY THE POWER OF THE DOG?

Y, many sequenc the film suggt that Phil is a closeted homosexual, keepg his homosexualy hidn om everybody else on the ’re troduced to the character as a nontatnal, hyper-mascule antagonist who is prented as beg nstant petn wh the men around him. He’s the alpha male and the others – bis his brother – speak to him like the patriarchal figure of the they ask him about Bron Henry, they do so a childlike manner, as if they’re askg their father about their the narrative progrs ’s implied that the excsively macho exterr is actually a way to avoid anybody disverg that he is gay; an overpensatn of sorts stemmg om reprsn. A key scene, some reful dialogue, and Phil’s sudn sire to strike up a iendship wh Peter show that Cumberbatch’s character is gay.

‘THE POWER OF THE DOG’ WAS INSPIRED BY THE TE STORY OF A GAY MAN IN THE 1920S

The scen clue the dience to the fact that Phil’s aggrsivens is meant to mask his sexualy and the lonels he feels a time which homosexualy was disapproved of.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'

All of the subtle elements of The Power of the Dog e together to prove that Phil is secretly gay, even though is never explicly nfirmed.