Why choose Jude Law to play Putin?

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]So the director is Olivia Saias. He's a great filmmaker. He won't have cast Jude Law as Vladimir Putin purely because he's the biggest name he could get. He must see something in Jude Law that is a way to explain Putin to Western audiences. All of the stuff that we associate as a Western audience with Jude Law, I think is saying this is why Putin clicks with so many Russians, right? But I think that there's this sense that like how are we going to explain this culture, this political culture to a western audience? And we're going to do it by choosing people that make them think, "Oh, right. That's the light in which Russians see these guys.