Jude Law is known for playing versatile characters in his long career. In his view, his new role, which is based on a real personality, has “not a face.”
He refers to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the star portrays in the upcoming film The Kremlin Wizard.
During the press conference at the Venice Film Festival, where the film debuted, he opened the challenges of playing a politician.
“The difficult side for me was that the public face we see gives very, very little away. There has been a term for him and that: ‘The man without a face’. There is a mask,” notes the 52-year-old.
This, in turn, got Jude to acknowledge that it was challenging to produce Vladimir. “So I became conflict as an actor because understandable Olivier wanted me to produce this or that in a scene with a particular feeling, and I felt the conflict of trying to show very little,” he adds.
Except Sherlock Holmes Star, Paul Dano, the film also contained Alicia Vikander, Jeffrey Wright and Tom Sturridge.
The The Kremlin Wizard Logline sounds, “A young Russian filmmaker, Vadim Baranov becomes an unlikely adviser to Vladimir Putin when he rises to power in the post-Soviet Russia, where he navigates in the complexities and chaos of the new era.”
