The Oscar winner signed up just after reading the script, in which he could see Goering\u2019s \u201cambition bloom\u201d and \u201chow his egotism told him that he could control the narrative\u201d.<\/p>\n
The movie contains devastating archive footage of Nazi concentration camp victims being bulldozed into their graves \u2013 the same film reel that was shown in the real Nuremberg courtroom.<\/p>\n
Director James Vanderbilt said he asked his actors not to research the footage before they were confronted with it on the day the scene was filmed.<\/p>\n
Crowe\u2019s role was \u201ca dark person to play \u2013 that takes an emotional toll on an actor,\u201d Vanderbilt told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was game for all of it, and I\u2019m eternally grateful to him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an early review, Deadline called the movie \u201cunrelenting\u201d and \u201cenormously effective,\u201d praising Crowe\u2019s \u201cstunning\u201d performance.<\/p>\n
\u2018Stitches\u2019<\/p>\n
Elsewhere at Toronto on Sunday, Angelina Jolie premiered Couture, a drama focusing on some of the human stories behind the often superficial world of fashion.<\/p>\n
Set in Paris and coming from French director Alice Winocour, it follows an American film-maker who is diagnosed with cancer as she prepares for a runway show, and told she needs a double mastectomy \u2013 echoing Jolie\u2019s real-life health issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about couture \u2013 in French, it means stitches,\u201d the actor told AFP.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo stitches, when you think of our surgeries, our bodies, the way our lives and stories are sewn together, you understand what the film is.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film does not yet have a release date.<\/p>\n
Oscar-winning director Chlo\u00e9 Zhao walked the red carpet for Hamnet, which colours in the gaps of the little we know about William Shakespeare and his wife, and a tragedy that inspired arguably his greatest work.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see them fall in love and come together, be torn apart… it\u2019s an inner civil war that we all battle with as we grow and mature,\u201d she told AFP.<\/p>\n
The movie, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, hits theatres in November and is expected to be an Academy Awards contender.<\/p>\n
And at a Toronto press conference, stripper-turned-actor Channing Tatum said his performance in Roofman, which tells the true story of a man who robbed dozens of McDonald\u2019s and hid out in a toy store, had helped him overcome \u201cimposter syndrome\u201d.<\/p>\n
The film, out next month, recounts the life of Jeffrey Manchester, who robbed dozens of fast food stores through the 1990s, entering the restaurants through the roof.<\/p>\n
He famously built a secret hideout inside a Toys \u201cR\u201d Us store in the city of Charlotte, coming out after closure at night to wash in the bathroom, surviving largely on snack food like M&Ms.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the very first time, maybe even on this movie, I feel like I\u2019ve actually earned my seat at the table\u201d with the role, Tatum said.<\/p>\n
The Toronto International Film Festival runs until next Sunday.<\/p>\n
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