He was! Cronenberg talked about it in more detail, about how Christoph pursued him to get the role of Freud because Christoph claims his father was a student of his. Though that helped them get funding, Cronenberg was left floundering because Christoph dropped out pretty quickly for Elephants. Funny, because now Rob is going to be in Cronenberg's new film.
Now, here's Fassy from Vogue:

I love that .gif!
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You know, I even .giffed her saying "Daniel Bruhl" from one of her interviews. It was too cute not to.