Benedict Cumberbatch on 'Power of the Dog': 'I bared my soul and my ass as well'

LOS ANGELES — Benedict Cumberbatch knows you have questions about that "Power of the Dog" ending. He has questions too. Maybe they're the same ones. But before he dives in — and this is a man prone to picking apart and parsing, so settle in — Cumberbatch would like to make a statement. And before we hand him the floor, it should go without saying that if you haven't seen "The Power of the Dog," which has been available for months now, you should not be reading this story because we're going to be talking about the ending that everyone has been discussing and dissecting since the end of, ahem, last year.

Now that we have that out of the way, Cumberbatch would like to say that he very much hopes you felt bad when his character, the menacing, hyper-masculine