It’s been a few months since Disney+ released a biographical series on the life of German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. But the project, called Kaiser Karl, had a major breakthrough this week, with the announcement of our colleagues. Deadline An actress who was chosen for her features on the legend of high fashion.
The choice of production actually fell on Daniel Bruhl, one of the German actors best known to the public after announcing himself in Good Bye, Lenin! Also appearing in international productions such as Inglourious Basterds and Captain America: Civil War, the latter also appears in Netflix’s Nothing in the West, which was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars this year.
A German like Karl Lagarfeld, Daniel Bruhl also has in common with the couturier the fact that he is polyglot, namely English and French, but also Catalan due to his Barcelona origins.
Set in the 1970s, during Kaiser’s rise in the fashion world, the six-episode series was filmed in France, as well as in Monaco and Italy with international distribution directed by Audrey Estrougo and Jérôme Salle (3 episodes each). ).
Among the other actors announced for the casting of Kaiser Karl, we should especially mention Theodore Pellerin as Jacques de Bascher, Lagerfeld’s lover, but also Arnaud Valois as Yves Saint Laurent, or even Alex Lutz, who chose to borrow him. Lines to Pierre Bergé. Finally, Agnès Jaoui will be Gaby Aghion, founder of the ready-to-wear fashion house Chloé.
Keep in mind that this Karl Lagerfeld biopic is a competing project for a movie starring Jared Leto.
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