Celebs React to Passing of Karl Lagerfeld

Jared Leto is going from House of Gucci to the House of Karl Lagerfeld.

The late designer's institution announced successful an Oct. 6 Instagram post that it's partnering with the histrion to co-create a movie about Lagerfeld that "will observe his life and legacy." The marque noted Leto volition not lone prima successful the movie but besides nutrient it on with Emma Ludbrook done their institution Paradox.

"Karl has ever been an inspiration to me," Leto said successful a quote shared by the House of Karl Lagerfeld. "He was a existent polymath, an artist, an innovator, a person and, astir importantly, a benignant man."

So what aspects of Lagerfeld's beingness volition the movie explore? While nonstop details are inactive nether wraps, the enactment noted "the movie volition screen the cardinal relationships successful Karl Lagerfeld's life, told done an unpredictable, overmuch similar the antheral himself." 

And it looks similar the filmmakers volition beryllium moving alongside immoderate of the individuals who knew him best.

Before Lagerfeld's death astatine the property of 85 successful February 2019, helium and Leto were friends and the Oscar victor attended several of his runway shows. In fact, the Dallas Buyers Club prima told Women's World Daily, the archetypal clip they met, helium said to the erstwhile originative manager for Chanel and Fendi, "You know, 1 time I person to play you successful a movie," to which Lagerfeld reportedly replied, "Only you darling, lone you." 

And Leto thinks Lagerfeld would o.k. of the film. "I consciousness similar this is simply a full-circle moment," helium told the outlet, which was archetypal to study the movie news, "and Karl would beryllium arrogant of what we are doing." 

So however does Leto consciousness astir playing Lagerfeld? "My relation is to represent him connected surface arsenic honestly arsenic possible," helium added. "With celebrity, astir radical don't get to spot nether the surface. They spot 1 oregon 2 facets of a idiosyncratic arsenic presented done a nationalist lens. Karl was a quality being. We each person quality wrong america and we each person faults. We person masks and past we person moments erstwhile we uncover the mask. I'm ever funny successful seeing what's down the mask."