Aping Putin’s famously deadpan expression in The Wizard of the Kremlin was a challenge, the British actor said at the Venice Film Festival
Law, 52, bears an uncanny resemblance to Putin, aping his scowl and distinctive walking style in the film by French director Olivier Assayas, which charts the rise of the former intelligence officer.
“There’s a lot of footage one could watch and, personally, when I start going down that rabbit hole, it becomes sort of obsessive,” he told journalists. “You’re looking for ever more, newer material.”
“The tricky side to me was that the public face that we see [of Putin], we see very, very little,” Law added. “There’s this mask.”
Law credited his likeness to the real Putin to “an amazing make-up and hair team”, adding that he had no fear of repercussions.
