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‘The Leopard’ Production and Costume Designers on Balancing ‘Reality’ and ‘Decadence’ to Update the Sicilian Saga’s Look for Netflix
Netflix's 'The Leopard' production and costume designers discuss making the Sicilian saga look both modern and real.
“Everything must change for everything to remain the same,” Tancredi, Prince Fabrizio Salina’s beloved nephew, says in a now-famous line from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel “ The Leopard.” The same philosophy applies to the look and feel of the Sicily-set classic’s Netflix miniseries adaptation, which released globally Wednesday and marks the streamer’s most ambitious Italian original to date. There would also be inevitable comparisons to “The Leopard’s” first adaptation — Luchino Visconti’s 1963 cinema classic starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. Capuani says that in early meetings with the show’s lead director Tom Shankland (“The Serpent”) and cinematographer Nicolaj Brüel (“Pinocchio”), they decided to immerse viewers “as much as possible into the reality” of 19th century Sicily.
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