Daniel Brühl Talks Giving Jude Law a ‘Hard Time’ in Ron Howard’s ‘Eden,’ Working With ‘Maniac’ Ruben Östlund and ‘Crazy as Hell’ Tarantino: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Safe’
variety.comMarta Balaga Daniel Brühl went to “Eden” and survived to tell the tale. “I can’t compare it to any of my films. I’ve never done anything like it,” he says, teasing Ron Howard’s upcoming thriller. “Two days ago, I was doing the dubbing and saw Jude Law giving me a hard time on screen.
We are both giving each other a hard time in this film.” Shot in Australia – “We shot in nature, in the wilderness. All of it!” – it also features Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby and Sydney Sweeney as a group of people heading to the Galápagos Islands.
Hans Zimmer composed the score. “Tonally, it’s very eerie and very influenced by its setting. Ron and I, we have been talking a lot about Peter Weir’s films and the wonderful ‘Walkabout’ by Nicolas Roeg.
There is this connection to nature, which is similar to [Howard’s previous film] ‘Thirteen Lives.’ It’s very epic in its scale,” Brühl says, enthusing over “Eden’s” “thrilling, feverish pace.” “The cast is stellar, but it’s not a talky film, which I also enjoyed,” he adds. “It’s more about what people do rather than what they say.” Back in 2013, Brühl worked with Howard on “Rush,” where he played Formula One champ Niki Lauda. “No German director would have offered me that part,” Brühl says. “He’s so cold, so calculated.
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