Brunello Cucinelli personally selected the three actors that portray him as a child, an adolescent and a young man in the docudrama “Brunello: The Gracious Visionary”, which was screened in Paris Thursday night in front of several film stars.
So, Colman Domingo, if they made a movie about your life and career, who would you wish to play you?
“You know, I haven’t thought about it,” he said during the cocktail hour at Le Trianon before guests filed into the theater. “I will say a young actor that I’ve had my eye on, and now the world has its eye on him, David Jonsson. He’s such a wonderful young man. He’s kind. He’s beyond talented. I think he’s just a beautiful, consummate artist. He’s playing the new Black Panther. I think people are going to know about him for years to come.”
The American actor is about to start filming season three of the series “The Four Seasons,” and he and his husband Raúl Domingo just sold a series to Netflix called “The Headlands House” they’re producing together. “So we’re in development with that right now,” he said.
As yet another heat wave rolled into Paris, the two men were among the coolest at the steamy party, equipped with handheld electric fans. Where did they get them? “Amazon,” they declared in chorus.
Montreal-born actress Charlotte Le Bon, seen recently in “The White Lotus,” is also a wiz at impromptu casting, immediately singling out one star to play her in a hypothetical biopic.
“Ryan Gosling,” she declared. “I think he’d be a perfect fit — and he’s Canadian. He can play anything.”
French artist JR demurred and replied: “I’m too young to see any biopic of myself because I feel I have so much more to do,” he said.
“But the good news for me is that they just need to put a guy in a hat and sunglasses, and then you’re good,” he said with a chuckle, alluding to his forever uniform of a porkpie topper and black shades.
Vincent Cassel, Cindy Bruna, Caroline de Maigret and Constance Jablonski were among the nearly 300 guests who took in the two-hour film and then filed into the neighboring concert venue L’Élysée Montmartre, which had been outfitted with four long tables, camel curtains and crystal chandeliers for a grand dinner.
The main dish was rigatoni with tomato sauce, which Cucinelli flagged in the film as his favorite. As guests took their final spoonfuls of tiramusu, a cake the size of a chest freezer was wheeled in. Lo and behold, it was the designer’s birthday, too.
He got a standing ovation for blowing out all 73 candles, and still having enough wind to make a speech.