BENEDICT OPENS UP ON RAW NEW FILM ABOUT MALE GRIEF

ACTOR Benedict Cumberbatch has described how he “let my own emotions come through”, when filming his latest movie which explores male grief.

- BY JENNY GARNSWORTHY

Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, where his character deals with raising his two sons alone after the unexpected death of his wife.

Appearing on ITV's Lorraine on Friday, Cumberbatch was asked by presenter Tyler West how he prepared for the role.

“It's a very honest place where I let my own emotions come through, more perhaps than any other,” Cumberbatch said.

“It was less imagining, but obviously there were circumstances in the film that aren't mine. But it was that sort of rawness of just existing in that place of loss, of feeling what that is like.”