Jude Law says there was a danger of becoming “obsessive” in researching his role as Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’s Venice Competition title The Wizard of the Kremlin .

“There was a lot of footage one could watch,” said Law at the press conference for the film, which has its world premiere this afternoon on the Lido. “When I start going down that rabbit hole, it becomes obsessive; you’re looking for more, newer material.”

“The tricky side to me was the public face [of Putin] we see gives very little away,” continued Law, who referenced a nickname of Putin’s, ‘the man with no face’. “Olivier would want me to portray this or that emotion - I felt that conflict of trying to show very little but feel an awful lot from within was the key.”

Law said “everything” about playing the Russia

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