Rami Malek Says His 'Nuremberg' Character Was "One of the Most Fun Characters to Play" | TIFF 2025 - video Dailymotion

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Director James Vanderbilt and cast Richard E. Grant, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon and John Slattery sat down at THR's TIFF suite at the 1 Hotel in Toronto to dish on their new movie 'Nuremberg.' Vanderbilt touches on his wish list for grabbing a cast this iconic while also talking about how this trial was built to be a media trial so there was a lot of things to draw inspiration from. Plus, Malek shares how this is one of the most fun characters he's ever been able to play.

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00:00Everybody's always saying, do you have to take the shower to slip out of the character?

00:04I'm like, no, but...

00:06But my jeans changed.

00:07The other one is what?

00:08No, Rami didn't shower the whole shoot.

00:11I was that guy that almost got punched in the face.

00:13If you don't shower, put on deodorant, it's over.

00:21What did your wish list for casting look like?

00:24Or did you even... did you get to that point?

00:26Or how did you get everybody here?

00:29Do you think there's a better wish list?

00:30I mean, I got my wish list.

00:32It was incredible.

00:35I first started working on this 13 years ago.

00:38And, you know, Red Jack's book proposal.

00:42And it was the quickest I ever said yes to anything.

00:45And one of the things I really knew that I wanted was for Herman Goering to be played by...

00:50Goering, historically, is an incredibly charismatic fellow.

00:55Not, you know, it's sort of somebody once described him as the best dinner party guest you'll ever have.

01:00And so I knew I needed somebody to play that who had that magnetism and that gravitas.

01:05And that was Russell, who read it and had a conversation with him and was like, all right, man, I'll do it.

01:11You, I mean, you raised your hand for it.

01:13You read it on your own.

01:15Yeah.

01:15Right?

01:16I mean...

01:16Yeah, I tracked it down.

01:17Yeah.

01:18We met at your house, if you remember.

01:21Oh, yeah.

01:22And we broke down the script, you know, moment to moment, beat for beat.

01:26We talked about the character, the intricacies.

01:30There's a sense of charm that he has.

01:33And, you know, when you're with, you know, interrogating 22 Nazis, you need charm to disarm these men.

01:40The thing that struck me, I think, was that there's a sort of a built-in fatigue.

01:45I mean, you know, it's the end of a tragic world war.

01:49And everybody just wants to go home.

01:53And everybody has been through hell.

01:55And then there's this assignment that he's tasked with to come to this prison and make sure that these Nazis,

02:05who everyone has strong feelings, to say the least, about, are put on trial in front of the world.

02:11And no mistakes can be made.

02:14The other thing about this, too, is this trial was so covered.

02:18I mean, it was built to be a media trial.

02:21You know, the courtroom had been bombed out.

02:23And the allies came in and rebuilt the courtroom and made sure there were camera emplacements built in.

02:29The lights on the ceiling were graded to be so bright so that the film cameras could actually capture the events

02:36that the court givers were given sunglasses to wear during the trial because we get so hot.

02:41The pictures are crazy.

02:43Yeah, the pictures are crazy.

02:44And as, you know, Richard points out, too, it's all on YouTube.

02:47It's all there.

02:48So there's so many things to draw from, from what really happened here,

02:52that it was really a gift for us as we built this thing.

02:56Everyone asks, like, why do you play all these serious characters?

02:58And this is actually a film that appears to be very serious, which it is,

03:03but this is one of the most fun characters I've ever been able to play, which, I mean, seemed so ironic.

03:11And he does, not for nothing, he dresses cool.

03:14That jacket.

03:14No, that jacket, oh.

03:16We had to balance the cool.

03:17We had to, no, but it was so fascinating for me and for you guys, I don't want to,

03:21but watching how wardrobe can click into a character.

03:26I remember you finding that jacket and it was just like, oh, okay, this is, okay,

03:34I think this is who this guy is a little bit more.

03:36And then it sort of, it kind of grew.

03:38There would be scenes that were like, is the jacket in this scene, you think?

03:42Right.

03:42I think it is in this, you know, so it just sort of, I, you know,

03:45I find it amazing what they do.

03:48What does a refined group of gentlemen such as yourselves do in the evening to shake off a day?

03:54You go to dinner with Richard.

03:55Yeah.

03:56Because he insists.

03:59What is a dinner with Richard like?

04:02An enormous amount of food and an enormous amount of drink.

04:06And laughter.

04:07Yes.

04:08Yeah.

04:08And stories.

04:09Stories.

04:09You got to get out of here.

04:10Did young Leo join the dinner as well, or is it, he's, he's.

04:13Oh, yeah.

04:14Leo was game for it all.

04:16Leo was up for everything.

04:17We all, almost all of us lived in the same hotel, too.

04:20So there was definitely sort of a community.

04:22Yeah.

04:22And you would just run into people, you know, it's sort of, you know.

04:25There was a club on the top level.

04:27There was a club on the top level.

04:28Yeah.

04:28There was a little social club.

04:29Yeah, yeah.

04:30Put out snacks.

04:31For breakfast.

04:32Really good snacks.

04:33And from all day long.

04:35Yeah.

04:35So you'd either be like wandering in and you're, you know,

04:38in your slippers had to have an omelet or like a drink at the end of the night.

04:41It was pretty funny, actually.

04:42With Mike memorizing like 20 pages of dialogue every morning, I'd be like, oh, my God.

04:49Bro, I would see you on the balcony sometimes if you, you know.

04:51We're giving way too much away.

04:53Stop.

04:53Come on.

04:53I don't smoke.

04:54You were doing, you were doing.

04:55No, I was.

04:55You were learning magic.

04:56Great stories.

04:57Give us a story, Richard.

04:59Yeah, we're, I can, I can do my little rapid fire questions for the end or you could tell

05:03us a story.

05:03Rapid fire.

05:04Oh, rapid, all rapid fire to Richard.

05:08What is, especially when you're traveling for work on a set, et cetera, what's a creature

05:13comfort that you have to bring with you?

05:15Wigs.

05:21Change, if you're directing a movie, change your shoes.

05:23Change your shoes at lunch.

05:24And socks.

05:25Sage advice.

05:26Oh, you did.

05:27Oh, yeah.

05:27Choose.

05:28Absolutely.

05:28It's a new day.

05:29Mm-hmm.

05:30Gummies.

05:31Weed gummies.

05:32Gummy bears.

05:33Oh.

05:34Standard gummy bears.

05:35Standard.

05:36Standard gummy bears.

05:37You have to qualify that now.

05:38Oh, sorry.

05:39Sounded qualified.

05:39Standard gummy bears.

05:40Ooh, I, I think I have a particular pair of denim jeans that I can always wear that I'm

05:46like, ooh, I feel at home when I need to, if it's been a really rough day or, yeah, it's

05:51not all wine and roses on the set every day.

05:54What is, um, one of your first big splurges that you gifted yourself with on an early job?

06:01Like, first job, first paycheck.

06:03Car.

06:04Yeah, I bought a car.

06:05What kind of car?

06:06Does, do you still have it?

06:07I bought a Jeep and Milli Vanilli had the same Jeep.

06:10I found that out.

06:11I remember that Jeep.

06:12I was going to say MG.

06:13I was going to say MG.

06:15I got it first.

06:16Oh, my God.

06:17You bought an MG?

06:19Yeah.

06:19Oh, wow.

06:19No, I was going to say, for you, MG.

06:21I never bought a car.

06:22Oh, there you go.

06:22Oh.

06:23Do you have a car?

06:25No, I don't have a car.

06:25Have you ever bought a car?

06:27No.

06:27Oh, fascinating.

06:29I don't have a car.

06:30So how did you treat yours?

06:31You're in New York.

06:32I got a couch.

06:35A couch is a good one.

06:36It was like an old, it was like a fancy art deco-y type couch, but my roommate sat on it and

06:43he broke it.

06:45It snapped in half.

06:46Do you still talk to this guy?

06:47He's a big guy.

06:48Right.

06:48I haven't seen him in years.

06:50Do you know?

06:51I don't wish him any ill.

06:53I didn't think you did until you said that part.

06:55He was trying to be a Navy SEAL, but he didn't make it through the training.

06:58Oh, wow.

06:59He was a big guy.

07:00Mm-hmm.

07:00And he sat on the couch.

07:01He's on a glass.

07:01We'll see a little Navy.

07:02Yeah.

07:03Oh, nice.

07:04If you're watching this, comment.

07:06More Wallace than SEAL.

07:07Patrick, I forgive you.

07:09Okay.

07:10Woo-hoo!

07:11You be-

07:13You're welcome.

07:15I'll see you next time.

07:17Bye-bye.

07:21Bye-bye.

07:31Bye-bye.

07:32Bye-bye.

07:33Bye-bye.

07:37Bye-bye.

07:38Bye-bye.

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