Jude Law joked that he hopes he wasn’t naive when he “didn’t fear repercussions” for taking the part of Vladamir Putin in French director Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin , a fictionalized account of the Russian president’s ruthless rise to power throughout the 1990s. The political thriller is premiering at the Venice Film Festival Sunday night and Law, Assayas and stars Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jeffrey Wright were all on-hand on the Lido Sunday to discuss is creation.

“Olivier and I discussed this wasn’t to be an interpretation of Putin and he didn’t want me to hide behind a mask of prosthetics. We worked with an amazing makeup and hair team and had references of that period in Putin’s life. We tried to find a familiarity on me,” Law said.

Jude Law joked that he hopes

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