She sent Benedict Cumberbatch - who stars as Phil, a vicious, hypermasculine rancher - to Montana as well, to learn roping, riding, horseshoeing, whittling, banjo and bull-calf castration.īut in rehearsals, her approach tends to be more oblique.
She went to visit the ranches in Montana where Thomas Savage, who wrote the novel on which the film is based, grew up. Before she began shooting her new feature, “The Power of the Dog,” she returned again and again to the mountain range in New Zealand she had chosen as a location, checking what the light was like at different times of day, in different weather, across seasons. When directing a film, she works sometimes for years to ready the environment - and herself.
Jane Campion believes in rigorous preparation.
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