By MICHAEL SMITH World Scene Writer
Published: 9/29/2012 2:27 AM
Last Modified: 9/29/2012 5:31 AM
PAWHUSKA - The bus pulls up to a curb in downtown Pawhuska. A slumped-shouldered man emerges, pulling on his suit jacket and approaching his father. The man is upset and apologetic ("I set the alarm," he tells his father). Their conversation concludes when the man breaks into tears and hugs his consoling father.
They repeat these actions for an hour, and after lunch, these men begin talking, crying and embracing many more times.
The man is Benedict Cumberbatch, an English actor best known for portraying a modern-day "Sherlock" on PBS. The father is Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper, one of Hollywood's best-known character actors in movies including "American Beauty" and "The Muppets."
The production is "August: Osage County," and on Friday the movie - based on Tulsa native Tracy Letts' award-winning play - filmed in Pawhuska, the county seat of Osage County. The past week has featured outdoor photography of multiple scenes, offering residents of Osage and Washington counties an occasional peek at the making of this major motion picture.
Soon the filming will move exclusively to a large home in Osage County near the Kansas state line for filming through November. The movie about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family also stars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis and Ewan McGregor, among others, but they were not involved in Friday's film shoot.
Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/scene/article.aspx?subjectid=283&articleid=20120929_282_D1_CUTLIN431593
