Firebrand Director Karim Aïnouz on Jude Law Smelling Like Rotting Flesh Every Day on Set
Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz (Mariners of the Mountains) admits that the Tudor England historical drama Firebrand isn t exactly in his typical wheelhouse. He tells Collider s Steve Weintraub that the story of King Henry VIII and his final wife, Katherine Parr, played by Jude Law and Alicia Vikander, was a big challenge for him to imagine how to tell a story that was very far removed from his What he perceived at first as a weakness, however, became his strength as he set out to tell not a historical retelling but a characterdriven psychological thriller. The movies that I m interested in making, Aïnouz says, they re really about characters and the strength of the This was the director s way into the dramatized look at Katherine Parr s survival of her volatile husband. The film aims to sort of forget the idea of monarchy and go into the intimacy of a couple and to see how that couple is falling a
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