That’s just a rule of thumb for me," admitsKodi Smit-McPhee, 25.
“I’d rather be told to bring more energy than turn it down a bit.”
“I feel as if the audience will kind of underestimate Peter.
Kodi Smit-McPhee in ‘The Power of the Dog’.Credit: KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX
He surprised me,” Smit-McPhee says of what drew him to the character.
“It taught me to have a lot more courage and belief in myself.
You’ve got to go for it and try new, crazy, weird things.
“This feels, in a strange way, like a new beginning.”
The Power of the Dogarrives in theaters Nov. 17 and hits Netflix Dec. 1.
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