A real Catholic cardinal let Ralph Fiennes try on his robes for ‘Conclave’: ‘Invited to his chambers’
the pope movie “Conclave,” in theaters Friday, and wanted to spend time with the real deal.Head-first Fiennes went a bit further than that.“I get a text from Ralph, who had met a cardinal, and the cardinal had invited him to his chambers,” Oscar-winning director Edward Berger told The Post. “On the bed in his chamber was laid out the cardinal robe,” Berger continued, “and then Ralph sent me a [photo] of him … in those robes, in the real robes, with a beaming smile … so proud.”There was a problem, however, because Berger, who directed Best International Feature winner “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was going in a different direction with the official’s outfits.“The costume designer and I knew that we don’t love the way the present-day cardinal robes look,” he said.