Udo Kier om Von Trier

12. januar 2011 av Morten Steingrimsen

Nettstedet The A.V. Club har gjort et omfattende intervju med den legendariske tyske kultskuespilleren Udo Kier. Har har spilt i filmer regissert av Fassbinder, Herzog, Van Sant, von Trier, Tarantino, Argento, Zombie, Carpenter med flere. Kier forteller blant annet en historie fra innspillingen av von Trier-filmen Medea (1988):

“I’ll tell you now a story which is very funny. The first day of shooting came, and of course I was nervous. I would lie if I said I wasn’t impressed. I mean, Lars von Trier hiring me to be the king in Medea… And we did the first day of shooting, and we were shooting under the earth, it was a stranded boat, and water, brown water, it was like sepia pictures. All the actors from the Royal Theatre were standing there. I was a real bear by now, long hair, and I turned around and Lars said, “Stop! Stop!” And I was so nervous, I turned around and said, “What is it?” He said, “I forgot, we have a star. You’re the king, I gave you a horse, the symbol of masculinity, two dogs that high. Just be a tired king.” And that’s the only direction I ever got in 20 years.

Other films I did with Lars—Dancer In The Dark, Breaking The Waves—I never, never asked him for direction, because I never forgot what he said to me: “Be a tired king.” It always works.”

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