For the Disney+ series 'Becoming Karl Lagerfeld,' actor Daniel Brühl tackled his Everest: 'The danger is definitely there to make a fool of myself.'
“It was a very charming persona, but it was exactly what people would have in mind if they’re asked about,” recalls Brühl, sitting on a sofa in a suite at the Bristol hotel in Paris. “A thin man with a white ponytail, the shades and then — in his manners, in his attitude — sharp, eloquent but distant.”
“I felt like, I don’t know how the hell I will get there, and it might be a total crash and a failure and humiliating and whatnot, so the danger is definitely there to make a fool of myself. But something in me told me this is such a fascinating, iconic, mysterious figure that I just want to play, and that’s going to be a very exhilarating journey,” he says.
“This is the first time that I’m doing an intense emotional love story with a man,” Brühl notes. Fortunately, he felt instant chemistry with Pellerin, who eats up the screen as the hedonistic, childish, captivating and needy de Bascher, while Brühl portrays Lagerfeld as a powder keg about to explode.
He met with Patrick Hourcade, former artistic director of Vogue Paris and author of “Karl: No Regrets,” who surprised him by inspecting his nails — too short, Hourcade decided, because Lagerfeld was prone to clawing people — and asking him to walk. That’s when they landed on the idea that his Lagerfeld should carry himself like a bullfighter.
Beyond the historical facts, the actor was fascinated by Lagerfeld’s contradictions: simultaneously craving fame and recognition, and spending hours alone reading, sketching and crafting fictional worlds via the elaborate interiors of his many homes. It was the actor’s method of conveying Lagerfeld’s complicated, platonic relationship with de Bascher.
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