00:00It was an opportunity to approach one of the most fascinating, iconic, mysterious German figures in recent history,
00:14which was a huge honor and privilege to be asked to do that,
00:20and then to find out who that man was before he was famous and created this very particular persona,
00:33similar to Andy Warhol, I always thought, of himself, who was the human behind the facade, so to say.
00:42I had said yes also because of the reason that the French wanted to do it, in French and in
00:50Paris.
00:51That felt right to me. I would have said no to the project if it had been in English or
00:56German.
00:57And that has helped me a lot, to be able to understand remotely what might have been going on, you
01:04know,
01:06in Karl's mind and system, you know, the competition, the humiliation, the rejection, wanting to be loved,
01:14wanting to be accepted and respected, you know, vanity.
01:17I know all that, being an actor.
01:23But, you know, Karl has lived everything in a far more extreme way than I have.
01:30That's cool.
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