German actor Daniel Brühl, known to Marvel fans for having played the super-villain Zemo, will lend his features to fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in a biopic series produced by Disney+.
It has already been several months since a biopic series devoted to the life of German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was announced by Disney+. But the project titled Kaiser Karl experienced a major breakthrough this week, with the revelation by our colleagues of Deadline of the actor chosen to lend his features to the legend of haute couture.
The choice of production indeed fell on Daniel Brühl, one of the German actors best known to the public since his revelation in Good Bye, Lenin! Also appearing in international productions such as Inglourious Basterds and Captain America: Civil War, the latter also appears in the cast of the Netflix film Nothing New in the West, nominated this year for the Oscar for Best Film.
German like Karl Lagarfeld, Daniel Brühl also has in common with the couturier the fact of being polyglot, mastering in particular English and French, but also Catalan because of his Barcelona origins.
Set in the 1970s during the Kaiser’s rise in the world of fashion, the series produced by Gaumont composed of six episodes will be shot in France, but also in Monaco and Italy with an international distribution, under the direction by filmmakers Audrey Estrougo and Jérôme Salle (3 episodes each).
Among the other actors announced for the casting of Kaiser Karl, let us mention in particular Théodore Pellerin in the role of Jacques de Bascher, Lagerfeld’s lover, but also Arnaud Valois in the role of Yves Saint Laurent, or even Alex Lutz chosen to lend his lines to Pierre Bergé. Finally, Agnès Jaoui will be Gaby Aghion, founder of the Chloé ready-to-wear house.
Remember that this Karl Lagerfeld biopic series is the subject of a competing project, intended for the cinema, with Jared Leto in the main role.