"Picasso: Chapter One" is the first episode in the second season of Genius. It is the eleventh episode overall.
Plot Summary[]
While going to art school in Madrid, young Pablo Ruiz rejects the traditional rules of painting in search of his own unique style, and soon changes his last name to Picasso. He moves to Paris and befriends art student Carlos Casagemas, and together they share a studio and sell their art until a terrible tragedy happens. In 1938, Pablo contends with the rising threat of Franco's fascism in his home country of Spain.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Antonio Banderas as Pablo Picasso
- Clémence Poésy as Françoise Gilot
- Alex Rich as Young Pablo Picasso
- Samantha Colley as Dora Maar
Guest Starring[]
- Poppy Delevingne as Marie-Thérèse Walter
- Robert Sheehan as Carles Casagemas
- David Wilmot as José Ruiz y Blasco
- Jordi Mollà as Dr. Salvador Ruiz
- Charlie Carrick as Manuel Pallarès
- Sebastian Roché as Emile Gilot
- Adrian Schiller as Jaime Sabartés
- Will Keen as Paul Rosenberg
- Alessio Scalzotto as Pablo Picasso (Age 14)
- Timothy Lyons as Pablo Picasso (Age 9)
- Maria Jose Bavio as María Picasso y López
- Stéphane Caillard as Geneviève Aliquot
- Bruno Paviot as Marcel
- Elena Martínez as Lola Ruiz y Picasso