Dalíland: Sir Ben Kingsley Discusses Donning the Mustache of the Great Salvador Dalí | TIFF 2022

Sir Ben Kingsley has played nearly every role imaginable in every manner of film imaginable, from playing Trevor Slattery in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to portraying Mahatma Gandhi in an Oscar-nominated turn for 1982’s Gandhi. With Mary Harron’s Dalíland, however, the larger-than-life actor has found a larger-than-life role. With him starring as the legendary painter Salvador Dalí alongside the embattled Ezra Miller as the younger Dali, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival a few days ago. Before the world saw Harron’s biopic, however, Kingsley sat down with Steve Weintraub at the Collider Supper Suite and Media Studio at Marbl to discuss what it was like to get in the mind of one of the art world’s most bizarre figures. Dalíland sees Kingsley star opposite newcomer Christopher Briney who plays Dalí’s assistant James whose eyes the story is seen through. It mostly follows the later years of the painter’s life and his marriage to his