Daniel Brühl On The Time He Swerved A Karl Lagerfeld Cover Shoot & Becoming A “Fearless” Actor

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Daniel Brühl has recalled the time he swerved a Karl Lagerfeldcover shoot two decades before playing him in the eponymous Disney+ series that airs out of competition at tonight’s Canneseries.

The BAFTA-nominated Rush star met the fashion icon in the early noughties but it has had a long lasting effect on him, and he was later to discover that this was true in the reverse.

Speaking to Deadline on the day of the Becoming Karl Lagerfeld premiere, the German-Spanish actor detailed how he was taking part in a photo shoot at the Berlinale right after announcing himself on the world stage with his critically-acclaimed performance in Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin!. “There was this Karl Lagerfeld photo shoot and all the German actors were stood together cramped like sausages and my Spanish pride kicked in, and I just thought, ‘This is embarrassing’,” Brühl explained. “But [Lagerfeld] saw it out the corner of his eye and gave me a nod and smile as if to say, ‘That’s cool’.” The pair spoke later, Brühl added, with Lagerfeld making a “young and nervous” Brühl feel at ease.

Two decades on, Brühl’s German publicist was looking for images Lagerfeld took of him from that time and discovered that Lagerfeld had seen Good Bye, Lenin!. “He didn’t mention this to me [when I met him] but after those photos were taken he realized he had watched Goodbye Lenin and said, ‘I’m a fan of this boy’,” added Brühl.