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I don’t even feel like I’m being pigeonholed or typecast. I do think that things have changed a lot. I love Eliza Hittman. I've never done it that way before.”
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Brühl leaped off Becoming Karl Lagerfeld to another high-profile project that’s set to satirize the Marvel franchise.
You can expect scenic shots of Paris, Monaco, and Rome, and several steamy love scenes as the series runs on two unique parallel tracks — Lagerfeld’s rising impact on Parisian couture and his fascinating relationship with de Bascher.
In excerpts from an exclusive MovieWeb interview, Daniel Brühl and Théodore Pellerin candidly reveal their shared emotional journey playing two very different men in love.
In every part, in every project, when you have to stretch yourself and reach for something that is part of you, but you haven’t really allowed yourself to tap into.
With Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, it was so important because the character of Jacques [de Bascher] thinks that all eyes are on him at all times. Everybody has such strong opinions. Here are shows to watch if you love fashion, in no particular order.
“I think that that's hard to watch, but there is something beautiful there, even if it's not always healthy — how they are to each other,” Pellerin added.
Solo is his third collaboration with Quebecois director Sophie Dupuis; his first was the 2018 crime drama Family First, in which Pellerin portrayed a foolhardy drug dealer with a sizable handgun tattooed on his taut belly. You have to accept it.’ And she said, ‘Oh, this actor is wonderful. That’s all that matters when you’re acting, a partner that you can listen to and enjoy listening to.
JACOBS: When you first started, did you aspire to a career beyond Canada?
PELLERIN: Yeah, of course.
And you then reach that climax of being in love, reaching a point in which I once called my wife and said, ‘Honey, I'm sorry, but I'm in love with this man for a couple of months. I was worried for a while to do too many gay roles or queer roles, but now I’m like, it has nothing to do with sexuality because the themes are about so much more.
So, in this first installment, it was important for me to show a more transparent, insecure, vulnerable [man]. The first movie I did with Sophie Dupuis, the director of Solo, I played this very violent and menacing kid on the edge of the precipice. It’s an electrifying lead turn.
It’s also one of a few splashy Pellerin roles gracing screens this spring.
But there was always a sense of, “I want to have access to the best material.” And that’s why I feel so privileged to be able to work in the States and work in France. You get to wear such decadent clothing. “Karl was such a monolith of rigor and strength, and such a control of his image that it's great to open the doors to something much more vulnerable,” he said.
I think that the musical numbers do a really good job of allowing the story to progress, though. And if people care about that, then I don’t really want to work with you anyway.
JACOBS: Right, because you wouldn’t want to not be thought of for something like Never Rarely Sometimes Always, for example, which required you to be this—
PELLERIN: I love being a dirty, straight guy.
JACOBS: Exactly.
PELLERIN: I love that.
I was 21, I barely spoke English, and it was a weighty task for me to take on a role like that.
JACOBS: That was an intense role, in a show [On Becoming a God in Central Florida] that had a very specific tone to it.
PELLERIN: Yeah.