Oh, and he seduces Cumberbatch’s character, Phil, sharing a cigarette with him in one of the most quietly erotic scenes of the year. But miraculously it is Smit-McPhee who both runs away with the film and feels like its bid toward modernity, playing a young man who is not masculine in any of the expected ways, and through his intelligence and confidence makes those expectations seem meaningless.
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So he knows to scale back.”) Dog is a film powered by old Hollywood glamour-from the clout of its auteur director, Campion, who hasn’t made a movie in 12 years, to its cast of A-listers like Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons, who themselves turn in Oscar-worthy performances.
His stylist and friend Jared Eng told me, “Could he go to every single event and every screening and guild event? He could, but he might hurt himself. At a packed Lincoln Center gala screening, I watched him delight the audience with a self-effacing joke, and then sweep through the after-party at Tavern on the Green in a Dior suit. He’s built with an extraordinary mixture of knowing and innocence," says The Power of the Dog costar Benedict Cumberbatch.Īnd it is a little warrior-like for him to be here, on a promotional circuit that has included Telluride, Toronto, then Los Angeles for the opening of the Academy Museum, and now the New York Film Festival, where The Power of the Dog played to a rapturous response. “Because I didn’t think it represented me well.” Such are the anxieties of an actor who started young (acting professionally at eight in his native Australia, then, getting his Hollywood break, at 12, opposite Viggo Mortensen in the dystopian thriller The Road) and at 25 is still navigating the vagaries of a developing career. “It’s something I’ve tried not to talk about,” Smit-McPhee says to me, over cappuccino in Manhattan. It means that Smit-McPhee, who is six feet two, slender as a reed, and dressed on the morning I meet him in a soft mohair Song for the Mute jacket, lives with pain, sometimes a lot of it. He suffers from a condition called Ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune disease that irreversibly affects the spine and joints. And it turns out that Kodi Smit-McPhee-who is probably the most exciting young actor to vie for awards this season-actually has. It’s not so much his height but the way he carries it, gracefully and a little delicately, as if he’s learned to move carefully through space. Produced by Block Productions Photographed by Tess Ayano, Vogue, January 2022 “I had to learn to kind of transmute from the victim into…a warrior,” says Smit-McPhee, in a Gucci coat.
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