Jude Law has spoken out about taking on the role of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the new film The Wizard of the Kremlin.
Directed by Olivier Assayas, the film is a fictionalized account of Putin’s rise to power in the 1990s, adapted from the novel of the same name by Italian author Giuliano da Empoli. Law stars as Putin alongside Paul Dano as fictional adviser Vadim Baranov, Alicia Vikander as Baranov’s lover Ksenia, and Jeffrey Wright as the journalist who is relayed the story of Putin by Baranov.
