Maisie Williams on the Traumatic ‘The New Look’ Premiere, and How Far She Went to Portray Catherine Dior
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the three-episode premiere of “The New Look,” now streaming on Apple TV+.
In the opening episodes of Apple TV+’s new series “The New Look,” famed fashion icons Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, who stand at two very different points in their celebrated careers, writhe and struggle within the militarized and moral confines of Nazi-occupied Paris.
In the French capital, the dangers are muted for those who have value to the Nazi cause. Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) is reluctantly enlisted to create ball gowns for the wives of Nazi officers, and Chanel (Juliette Binoche) finds herself drawn to the privileges –– and safety –– of being in the enemy’s good graces.
But for those who resist the brutal occupying force, they face the inhumanity of the Nazi agenda firsthand. That’s where the three-episode premiere finds Catherine Dior (Maisie Williams), the younger sister and original muse of Christian, who is a prominent figure in the city’s covert French Resistance alongside her boyfriend, Hervé (Hugo Becker).
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