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,

00:01I need my jeans.

00:02Do you have to take the shower to slip out of the character?

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

00:06But my jeans didn't.

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?

00:24Did you get to that point?

00:26Or how did you get everybody here?

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

00:31I mean, I got my wish list.

00:33It 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

00:47was for Herman Goering to be played by...

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

00:55You know, somebody once described him

00:57as the best dinner party guest you'll ever have.

01:00And so I knew I needed somebody to play that

01:02who had that magnetism and that gravitas.

01:05And that was Russell, who read it and had a conversation with him

01:09and 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.

01:16Right? I mean...

01:17I tracked it down.

01:18Yeah.

01:19We met at your house, if you remember.

01:21Oh, yeah.

01:22And we broke down the script, you know,

01:24moment to moment, beat for beat.

01:27We 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,

01:36interrogating 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.

01:50And everybody just wants to go home.

01:52And everybody has been through hell.

01:55And then there's this assignment that he's tasked with to come to this prison

02:02and make sure that these Nazis, who everyone has strong feelings, to say the least, about,

02:09are put on trial in front of the world and 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

02:26and made sure there were camera emplacements built in.

02:29The lights on the ceiling were graded to be so bright

02:33so that the film cameras could actually capture the events

02:37that the court givers were given sunglasses to wear during the trial

02:40because 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?

02:59And this is actually a film that appears to be very serious, which it is,

03:04but this is one of the most fun characters I've ever been able to play,

03:09which, I mean, seemed so ironic.

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

03:14That jacket.

03:15No, that jacket, oh.

03:16We had to balance the cool.

03:18We had to, no, but it was so fascinating for me, and for you guys, I don't want to,

03:22but watching how wardrobe can click into a character.

03:27I remember you finding that jacket, and it was just like, oh, okay.

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

03:37And then it sort of, it kind of grew.

03:39There would be scenes that were like, is the jacket in this scene, you think?

03:42Right.

03:43I think it is in this.

03:44You know, so it just sort of, I, you know, I 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?

04:01An enormous amount of food and an enormous amount of drink.

04:06And laughter.

04:07Yes.

04:08Yeah.

04:09And stories.

04:10Stories.

04:11You got to get out of here.

04:12Did young Leo join the dinner as well, or is it, he's, he's.

04:14Oh, yeah.

04:15Leo 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.

04:22For months.

04:23You would just run into people, you know, it's sort of, you know.

04:26There was a club on the top level.

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

04:28Yeah.

04:29Social.

04:30Yeah, yeah.

04:31Put out snacks.

04:32For breakfast.

04:33Really good snacks.

04:34And from all day long.

04:35Yeah.

04:36So you'd either be like wandering in and you're, you know, in your slippers had to have an omelet

04:40or like a drink at the end of the night.

04:42It was pretty funny, actually.

04:43And there was a very.

04:44With Mike memorizing like 20 pages of dialogue every morning, I'd be like, oh my God.

04:49Remember I would see you on the balcony sometimes.

04:51I'd be, you know.

04:52We're giving way too much away.

04:53I need a cigarette.

04:54Stop.

04:55Come on.

04:56I don't smoke.

04:57You were doing, you were doing.

04:58No, I was.

04:59You were learning magic.

05:00Great stories.

05:01Give us a story, Richard.

05:02Yeah, we're, I can, I can do my little rapid fire questions for the end or you could

05:03tell us a story.

05:04Rapid fire.

05:05Oh.

05:06Rapid fire.

05:07All rapid fire to Richard.

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

05:13what's a creature comfort that you have to bring with you?

05:16Wigs.

05:17Change, if you're directing a movie, change your shoes.

05:23Change your shoes at lunch.

05:24And socks.

05:25And socks.

05:26Sage advice.

05:27Oh, you did.

05:28Oh, yeah.

05:29Absolutely.

05:30It's a new day.

05:31Mm-hmm.

05:32Gummies.

05:33Queen gummy bears.

05:34Oh.

05:35Standard gummy bears.

05:36Standard.

05:37Standard gummy bears.

05:38Ooh, 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.

05:55What 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?

06:08I bought a Jeep and Milli Vanilli had the same Jeep.

06:10I found that out.

06:11I remember that Jeep.

06:12I was gonna say MG.

06:13I was gonna say MG.

06:14I was gonna say MG.

06:15I got it first.

06:16Oh, my God.

06:17You bought an MG?

06:18Yeah.

06:19Oh, wow.

06:20No, I was gonna say for you MG.

06:21Yeah.

06:22I never bought a car.

06:23Oh, there you go.

06:24Do you have a car?

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

06:26Have you ever bought a car?

06:27No.

06:28Oh, fascinating.

06:29I don't have a car.

06:30So how did you treat yourself?

06:32You're in New York.

06:33I got a couch.

06:34A couch is a good one.

06:37It was like an old, it was like a fancy art deco-y type couch.

06:42But my roommate sat on it and he broke it.

06:45It snapped in half.

06:46Do you still talk to this guy?

06:47He's a big guy.

06:48Right.

06:49I haven't seen him in years.

06:50Do you know?

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

06:52Oh.

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.

06:59Too big?

07:00He was a big guy.

07:01And he sat on the couch.

07:02We'll see a little later.

07:03Yeah, yeah.

07:04Oh, nice.

07:05If you're watching this, comment.

07:06More walrus than SEAL.

07:08Patrick, I forgive you.

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