Thibault de Montalembert plays Louis XVI's Minister of Foreign Affairs in the historical Apple TV+ series. The 61-year-old actor, who played an ambitious and intractable star agent for France 2, starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in the Shakespearean adaptation The King.
He shares his memories of filming with the sacred monster of Hollywood, Michael Douglas. The series is bathed in a twilight atmosphere. This is not a happy court. It’s a world that is dying but doesn’t know it yet. “Even in reverse shots, where he doesn't appear on screen,. Michael Douglas stays with you to give you the cue.” “I was spoiled. I was treated to seven sumptuous tailor-made suits. This helps enormously, like the wigs, to slip into character and go back in time. It was magical to enter the Hall of Mirrors and discover hundreds of costumed extras”