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worry that if I don't succeed I have nothing to fall back on. You get
used to a level of independence, a way of life.
Pretty
different. I think Monica
Belucci, in the original, is an actress. I'm a dancer in the movie.
It's less that her ex-boyfriend stalks her.
I
think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much
knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him.
Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their
battles.
I
started modeling there. They brought me over from Germany to model. I
love Paris. I love the language, I love French movies.
As
a child I knew I wanted to leave Germany. I didn't like school much,
because the only school I could go to where I lived was a boys' school,
and we were the first year of girls they let in. There were three of us
to 23 boys, and I was a ballerina... you can just imagine how I got
treated.
I'm
not prepared for it. I don't know how you prepare for something like
that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here
so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and
we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see
what happens.
Not
so far because they don't really know who I am. They will now but so
far...and I'm German and I love Germany because my family is there.
I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup - but I was much more concerned to make - the part was a very challenging part for me - so I was much more concerned to look beyond that and make her more youthful, vulnerable, and show how sad she must have been from stories. So tragic.
I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
You
really want to know? The only song I can sing is "Lady in Red"
so that must tell you how great it must have been.
There’s
always the question if you want to be manipulated or not. I think I’m
a pretty good judge of character, but I have to say that Alex’s
character [played by Rose Byrne] is a good liar. Lisa never realizes she
is lying to her.
English.
It's just because it's easier because I speak in English and it's a
great movie language. I love French but you need a lot more work to say
the same things.
I
get along with him so well. Maybe because we're both German. - On Wolfgang Petersen
Well
I learned in school. I was here for four years and I work on it a lot.
Just trying to get better the accent. It's really hard.
It was really fun. He's a really cool guy. I don't know if you get a chance to talk to him but we have the same age, and our careers started a bit similar. They hired him for "Lord of the Rings" out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to help each other out. We felt very equal which was good.
- On Oralndo
Bloom
With Wolfgang Petersen, we were always the
only two ready at time and the first on the set during the filming of
Troy. The German rigour without a doubt.
It was something strange for me, to kiss
Orlando. I was so embarrassed! It is not as fun as people think to shoot
love scenes. You feel vulnerable, and there are about 100 people looking
at you.
I'm a little bit worried about this sudden
success. I am quite independent and I'm afraid that this privilege could
escape from me.
The script was very explicit about the
nudity that was supposed to be in the movie. Actually, they don't show
everything we shot. They would cut here and it was floored. It was very
embarrassing. I just met him over a week ago and he had never done a
love scene. I sort of have one in "Wicker Park" but never on
that scale. He's in full armour and I'm getting up and I'm taking the
pins out his dress and it falls off completely and he's like "Uh,
huh." That's his speech. Feel free, fifty people standing around,
take a good look. Also, the scene that follows when I'm on the bed
was actually hard to do because I was naked obviously and I'm sitting up
and it's an emotional scene on top of that so it made me feel very
vulnerable.
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she
couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. - on Helen of
Troy
What I really tried to do with Helen was
make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so
young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she
looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. Her
beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive
way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and
believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just
for a limited time. It must have been so impossible to think about it
and dare [to] do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think
the movie would work otherwise.
It was pretty devastating, especially when
you're 13 and you're over dramatizing everything. Looking back at it
now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the
talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I
don't have any regrets about it. I really feel like the first day I went
to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's
kind of a clichéd thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was
meant to do.
I really want to work with Paul Thomas
Anderson. He's my favorite filmmaker. Steven Spielberg obviously,
Soderbergh for sure.
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