Did you find this actor and designer problematic? Okay, the first will play the second. Indeed, The Hollywood reporter revealed on October 6, 2022 that Chanel has just authorized a biopic project about Karl Lagerfeld, produced by Jared Leto, and with himself as the protagonist.
What is Karl Lagerfeld accused of, by the way?
To prepare this biopic focusing on the great German designer who has officiated at Patou, Balmain, Chloé, Fendi and Chanel, denounced for his numerous classist, sexist and grossophobic outbursts, the Oscar-winning actor has chosen his executive producers well: Pier Paolo Righi, CEO of Chanel, Caroline Lebar, vice president of image and communication, and Sébastien Jondeau, personal assistant and bodyguard of the late designer. It is to these people that Jared Leto refers in an Instagram post about the project, on October 6, 2022:
“Karl has always been an inspiration to me. He was a true multifaceted, an artist, an innovator, a leader and, above all, a kind man. When we got together with Karl Lagerfeld’s team, we immediately shared a creative vision to make a respectful ode to Karl, while pushing the artistic boundaries of what a biopic can be. I am very grateful to Karo, Pier and Seb for allowing us to take this journey together. “
Because he will be honored from 5 May to 16 July 2023 with an exhibition at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”, there are those who are keen to remember the behavior of the fashion Kaiser who died in 2019 without anyone filing a complaint against him during his life. Like Jameela Jamil, through an Instagram post dated 1 October 2022 aimed at denouncing this exhibition which will also serve as a theme for the Met Gala on 1 May 2023:
What is Jared Leto accused of, by the way?
Recall that in 2018, actor Dylan Sprouse and director James Gunn denounced Jared Leto’s penchant for barely legal women. Other colleagues of the actor and comedian also scolded him for his inappropriate behavior which he justified with Stanislavski System or Method Acting: on the set of Suicide squad in 2016, the one who was supposed to put himself in the role of the character of Joker would have sent a mouse by post to Margot Robbie and a dead pig to Viola Davis.
In addition to this film with Jared Leto and produced by him (and of which we do not yet know the release date), there is also a series on Karl Lagerfeld on the Disney + side. And one wonders who else will be able to interpret the great controversial couturier.
Front page photo credit: Instagram screenshot.
Source: Madmoizelle
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