There is a scene in which he is very far from himself physically, both in stature and in accent, in nationality. And all this, the makeup artists did a remarkable job. They had amazing French makeup artists who worked with Brad Pitt, on Game of Thrones too. There were between four and six hours of makeup on the days when he had to do one of Edmond Dantès’ avatars. We found a video on his Instagram account that he posted at the time, where he completely cut off his mask. He finds it very therapeutic to be someone else, and this film is an incredible score for an actor, because he had the opportunity to play innocence, madness, mental suffering. , physical suffering, injustice obviously and then the madness of revenge, to what extent it poisons us and to what extent it devours us. Having lots of faces to tell this story is very exciting. At times he was 30 years older in the morning, 20 years older in the afternoon. This Count of Monte Cristo, we wanted him to be charismatic and at the same time mysterious, so we had to find a new face for him.
