"Picasso: Chapter Eight" is the eighth episode in the second season of Genius. It is the eighteenth episode overall.
Plot Summary[]
After befriending playwright Jean Cocteau, Pablo designs his ballet, Parade in 1917, and meets his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a Russian ballerina. He must choose starting a family with his new wife or being around for his old friends. Max decides to stay at a monastery and make his vows to God, while Apollinaire contracts Spanish influenza. As an older man in the early 1950s, Pablo struggles with Françoise who attempts to bring his complex family back into his life. It is a distraction when he tries to continue his legacy with a retrospective of his works.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso
- Clémence Poésy as Françoise Gilot
- Alex Rich as Young Pablo Picasso
Guest Starring[]
- T.R. Knight as Max Jacob
- Sofia Doniants as Olga Picasso
- Poppy Delevingne as Marie-Thérèse Walter
- Seth Gabel as Guillaume Apollinaire
- Michael Gor as Sergei Diaghilev
- Simon Buret as Jean Cocteau
- Andrew Buchan as Henri Matisse
- Zachary Fall as Paulo Picasso
- Margaux Chatelier as Geneviève Laporte
- Sebastian Roché as Emile Gilot
- Lucy Russell as Madeleine Renoult-Gilot
- Violet Young as Maya Picasso
- Bruno Paviot as Marcel
- Maria Jose Bavio as María Picasso y López
- Will Keen as Paul Rosenberg