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Welcome back to a new Oscar season full of interviews for my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. After nearly two years of producing this series virtually, which enabled us to go to all corners of the globe for scintillating chats with actors, it is nice — variants be damned — to be back doing these one on one…

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is about much more than a man who drew remarkable portraits of cats. According to the movie’s star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the Amazon Studios project is about an artist in Victorian London who pursues many subjects with passion: boxing, painting, composing an opera (not a very good…

Studiocanal, Film4, Shoebox, SunnyMarch and Amazon Studios have released the full trailer for The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain, the period film that traces the story of the titular English painter who specialized in exaggerated cartoons of wide-eyed felines. Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy star for director Will…

For The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, star Benedict Cumberbatch and director Will Sharpe were compelled to tell the story of a quiet man whose life bordered on the extraordinary. Louis Wain is "a quiet hero," says Benedict Cumberbatch. "Somebody who, in a very loud world, stayed true to who he was and it cost him a…

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy and a cast of cats make an irresistible combination in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. Director Will Sharpe (Flowers) makes witty, poignant work of the story of English painter Wain, who specialized in exaggerated cartoons of wide-eyed…