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\n\t\t\t\t\t‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ imagines the life of Vadim Baranov, a shadowy Kremlin insider who rises from artist to television producer before becoming a spin doctor to a young Putin\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
VENICE, Italy \u2013 Jude Law said on Sunday he did not fear reprisals for playing Russian President Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin, a new film premiering at the Venice Film Festival that offers a chilling, fictionalised look at Putin\u2019s rise to power.<\/p>\n
The Wizard of the Kremlin, directed by France\u2019s Olivier Assayas and also starring Paul Dano, shows Putin ruthlessly disposing of people who cross his path.<\/p>\n
Asked by reporters if he was worried about possible retaliation for taking on the role, Law said: \u201cI hope not naively, but \u2026 I didn\u2019t fear repercussions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The British actor added that the film recounted Putin\u2019s single-minded ascendancy \u201cwith nuance and consideration. We weren\u2019t looking for controversy for controversy\u2019s sake\u201d.<\/p>\n
Based on a best-selling novel by Giuliano da Empoli, the movie imagines the life of Vadim Baranov, a shadowy Kremlin insider who rises from artist to television producer before becoming a spin doctor to a young Putin.<\/p>\n
From his office in the Kremlin, he crafts narratives that blur truth and propaganda, faith and manipulation, renouncing his values to serve his master who is determined to restore Russia to greatness after the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
Law said he shunned a strict impersonation of Putin, but nonetheless tried to capture the essence of the man. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing what a great wig can do,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tricky side was that the public face (of Putin) that we see gives very little away \u2026 I felt that conflict of trying to show very little, but feel an awful lot and portray an awful lot from within,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Assayas, best known for films such as Carlos (2010) and Personal Shopper (2016), said his latest movie resonated beyond Russia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe made a movie about what politics has become and the very scary and dangerous situation we all feel we are in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe took the case of Vladimir Putin, but it applies to many authoritarian leaders. Politics has changed in a major way during our lifetimes, and what\u2019s going on right now is terrifying,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
American actor Jeffrey Wright, who plays a US writer in the movie, said he hoped it would get widely seen in his home country, which he feared might shed its ideals and aspirations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that is lost as it is now, then we become the thing we see in this film,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dano, who plays the main protagonist Baranov, said the project avoided simple moral labels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you were to just label a character bad, it would be a massive oversimplification,\u201d he said. \u201cAsking why, and looking into the gray, even if it\u2019s scary, is better than letting us go further and further into black and white.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wizard of the Kremlin is one of 21 films competing for the prestigious Golden Lion prize, which will be awarded on September 6. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rappler.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ imagines the life of Vadim Baranov, a shadowy Kremlin insider who rises from artist to television producer before becoming a spin doctor to a young Putin VENICE, Italy \u2013 Jude Law said on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1994416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jude-Law-tackles-Putin-role-without-fear-at-Venice-Film.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}