Ben Mendelsohn on playing Christian Dior and feeling insecure: ‘I tend to get cast as villains but in truth I’m pretty shy’

He’s playing the wildly influential French fashion designer Christian Dior in the Apple TV+ series The New Look, which premieres tomorrow.

“He talked about the difficulty Dior had in reconciling his private, authentic self with his public business self,” says Mendelsohn.

As is often the way for those cast as screen villains, he has become accustomed to dying on screen.