Jared Leto is set to star and produce in a biopic about controversial designer Karl Lagerfeld
dailymail.co.ukOscar-winning actor Jared Leto is making a film about Karl Lagerfeld, who passed of pancreatic cancer in February 2019 at the age of 85.Years after telling the German fashion designer that 'one day' he would play him in a movie, his prediction is coming true as he prepares to star and produce a biopic about the controversial designer.'I feel like this is a full-circle moment, and Karl would be proud of what we are doing,' Leto told Women's Wear Daily. 'Karl was an artist.
Period. He was a fashion designer, he was a photographer, he was an artist. There was no defining him. He was a creative powerhouse.' In the making: Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto is making a film about Karl Lagerfeld, who passed of pancreatic cancer in February 2019 at the age of 85; seen in 2014He continued: 'There are a multitude of relationships to explore.
Karl had a career that spanned 50-plus years, so both personally and professionally he was close to a number of people. I can say we are going to home in on key relationships that convey different parts of his life.' The House of Gucci star added that his goal is to 'portray him on screen as honestly as possible.''With celebrity, most people don’t get to see under the surface.
They see one or two facets of a person as presented through a public lens. Karl was a human being,' he added. 'We all have beauty within us and we all have faults.
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