Jared Leto will play Karl Lagerfeld in a biopic about the creator already in development.
After playing Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott’s biopic, Jared Leto is once again preparing to dive into the world of fashion. This Thursday, October 6, the actor announced during an interview for Women’s Wear Daily that he was going to play Karl Lagerfeld in a film he will produce himself alongside his partner, Emma Ludbrook, via their company. Paradox.
“There are tons of things to explore. Karl had a career that spanned over fifty years, so personally and professionally he was close to a number of people. I can say that we are going to focus on key relationships that convey different parts of his life,” the “Requiem for a Dream” star said of the script. “Karl would be proud of what we do,” the Oscar-winning actor said.
Big fan of fashion, and fervent admirer of Karl Lagerfeld to whom he would have promised to devote a film a few years ago, the actor is full of praise for the couturier but also the man, who died at the age of 85 in 2019. “My role is to represent him at the screen as honestly as possible. With fame, most people don’t see below the surface. They see one or two sides of a person. Karl was a human being. We all have beauty in us and we all have flaws. We have masks and then we have times when we take the mask off. I’m always interested in seeing what was behind it,” explained Jared Leto.
The Karl Lagerfeld House has announced that it will participate in the development of the film which “will pay tribute to his life and his legacy”. Pier Paolo Righi, director of the Karl Lagerfeld House, Caroline Lebar, Lagerfeld’s communications advisor and Sébastien Jondeau, the stylist’s personal assistant for 20 years, “will be associated as executive producers of the film”, it was announced. .