Dalíland Director Mary Harron & Christopher Briney Talk Salvador Dalí and Working with Sir Ben Kingsley | TIFF22 Harron also hits on the process of finding the newcomer Briney and what it was like for his first time on set.
Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron came to the Toronto International Film Festival with her first feature film since 2018, Dalíland, and she had a "feast of acting" to mark her return. Featuring the talents of Sir Ben Kingsley and Ezra Miller as an older and younger version of the surreal painter Salvador Dalí alongside the ever-talented Barbara Sukowa, Rupert Graves, and Andreja Pejic among others, there was no shortage of star power aboard the dazzling biopic.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Dalíland is a portrait of the famed painter through the star-struck eyes of his assistant, James . It centers mostly on the later years of Dalí's life and his peculiar marriage to his wife Gala . After years together where their bond seemed unbreakable, the film shows them at their darkest moments when cracks are starting to form in their union. Harron, who had previously directed the classic American Psycho, re-teamed with John C.
Harron and Briney briefly summed up the film as they've described it to family members before jumping into Briney's casting. Harron discussed how it was a sort of happy accident that Briney ended up in the film, considering how they happened upon him as a replacement. On Briney's end, he discussed the terrifying prospect of playing opposite a legendary actor in Kingsley and how the trial-by-fire nature of his role really echoed the character of James.
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