Cumberbatch and Colman exchange heated invectives through &34;The Roses,&34; as a married couple who are trying to find their way back to each other. See Benedi

Cumberbatch and Colman exchange heated invectives through "The Roses," as a married couple who are trying to find their way back to each other.

See Benedict Cumberbatch's favorite vicious insult from The Roses in exclusive clip

Cumberbatch and Colman exchange heated invectives through "The Roses," as a married couple who are trying to find their way back to each other.

By Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at ** with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, *Ms. Magazine*, *The Hollywood Reporter*, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, *It Happened One Fight*, is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen.

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There is an art to an insult.

It can't be too crude or obvious, and it must be delivered with the right amount of verbal alacrity to truly make it land. That's something both Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch) excel at in *The Roses, *as exhibited in the exclusive clip above.

A new take on 1989's *The War of the Roses, *the romantic comedy stars the two Brits as a happy couple whose marriage descends into vitriol with the pressures of parenthood, ambition, jealousy, and domestic labor. The two can't help but hate each other, despite being desperate to find their way back to the love they once shared.

In the exclusive clip, Theo admits that he does occasionally hate Ivy. "Don't you have that where your whole body is seized by dizzying waves of f---ing hatred?" he asks. "I thought all married people did. It'll pass like a wave crashes somewhere on a beach in the Pacific."

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in 'The Roses'.

Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

In turn, Ivy tells Theo that she recently contemplated the appeal of going on a picnic with Charles Manson over spending time with her husband.

"I do love, 'I suppose I do sometimes have dizzying hatred for you,'" Cumberbatch says when asked about his favorite insult in the film.

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The film, written by Tony McNamara (*The Favourite, The Great*) and directed by Jay Roach (*Meet the Parents, Bombshell*), also comments on the observation that Brits are inherently better at insulting each other in a way that feels humorous or light-hearted as opposed to just outright cruel.

"Do you think that's fair?" Cumberbatch asks. "I often balk at it and go, 'Is this us being pompous and thinking that we're wittier than everyone else?' If people recognize that as a generalized trope, I don't know that it's true. As far as also the barbed-ness of it, the cruelty of it, roasts in America, even though they're more open — perhaps they're not couched in more epigrammatic Wilde-ian elements of wit — but that blows me away how people take that. And that's a real thing."

Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman in 'The Roses'.

Jaap Buitendijk, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

Adds Colman, "I'd cry if someone said those things to me. This is fine because we're doing a script. But if I was actually in front of people being really mean, I'd [mimes clamming up]."

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Indeed, because of their own feelings as themselves, not their characters, Cumberbatch and Colman made a point of looking after each other on set between takes. "There were a couple moments early when it really started to tip into the nasty darkness where I had to check in with her," says Cumberbatch. "Like, 'can we just check in as friends every now and again because this is quite full on? Let's make sure we socialize and laugh and don't sit in separate corners of the set.'"

*The Roses* hits theaters on Aug. 29. Watch the clip above for more.**

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