other who encourages shoplifting and a french language drama about a secret relationship between 2 women and which supervised character once the love of her life to finally come out of the closet. and here she is bob thanks so much for coming on to arts and culture and finding the time because you're a very busy person these death think you for having me i know i say you're very busy because you've got these 2 films out you actually live in new york city you're here and you're a promoting these 2 films i want to talk about both of your current movies let's start though with the german movie it's called unfair in german which translates to grandchildren for beginners this is pretty different for you're not really known for your comedic roles no i never got any comedic role off of it and when i got the script i don't get scripts like this even sent to me and but when i read it i have to say i had to at times to laugh out loud i thought this could be something nice

to do although i would have loved to play the other role in the film but then because of the director convinced me i should play the hippie woman ok and why do you think that you are a good fit for the hippie and can you just tell us a little bit about what the movie is about well the movie is about these 3 older people like retired people who become substitute grandparents and young families and it's it's a little bit about this clash between the older generation and the parents of the kids and the kids and so it's kind of a film for the older people but also for young families for young people who struggle maybe with the ideas of their parents how they want to interfere with the grandchildren and let's just take a look yeah. sure. enough there is no i'm. just. going to point to mean advantage if there's good

test leadership. and it sucked. so you just so there that getting older means you get to tell whatever you say whatever you feel like do you think that's true i think so yeah you don't stew i'm not so worried anymore about what other people think of you i was when i was younger i was much more worried about that and i think in this movie all 3 characters have some kind of a transformation with each one happen something something unexpected and you just celebrated a big birthday of yourself i've heard yes it's something to see your congratulations and your grandmother yourself so how much of you is in those character do you do you do this burping thing where you slap your granddaughter on the head and you know i didn't know the burping thing this is something that that i had never heard about but so when when i was a young parent then we were all into the anti author a tarion upbringing so i brought my kids more like this grandmother and i think the

younger parents at least in this film are. a little more program that their kids are successful and safe and i want to protect them from danger and so my character is more. you know goes for freedom so i mentioned before that you're considered quite a serious actress normally especially here in germany where you're best known and i think that we should maybe look at some of your career highlights so this is. for the uninitiated. you get kinder to yourself with age that's what baba has with of us said on her 70th birthday 2 weeks ago but with the kind of career she's had she has every reason to be relaxed about life she had her breakthrough 1980 playing the role of meats in a fine of enough to spend as an adaptation of the novel 1000000000 alexanderplatz. the concept one new concept. it's been taking me to the film was such

a success that fassbender put her in this next film in 1901 she played the title role of lola alongside amin miller shaw and mario out of. town tonight. a space go by train and i caught. up to sob. who was. director mark of data from tata has hired to embody important female figures of german history like the philosopher and political theorist honokaa and in her 2012 bio pic wrote the film tells of how out and covered the jerusalem trial of. one of the organizers of the holocaust writing about the trial she coined the phrase the banality of evil sparking widespread controversy. and. all. of us who cover was honored for her portrayal with a 2013 german film award for best actress. born in blame and the actress has lived

for the past 25 years in new york she says american casting agents tend to offer her stereotypical nazi roles but she likes to look for her own projects and she's won a new audience with her role in the science fiction series 12 monkeys. so i want to ask you actually what is it like being a german the actress living in the united states you've been living in new york for 25 years now obviously you did this series 12 monkeys even there your german. plays a role there's an episode where you go back in time to nazi germany is this part of why you're still making movies here in europe well i say something really funny in europe i play jewish people in america they want me to play nazis. agent well that's you know that's what i. approach with the logic nazis and the k.g.b. off officers where i most of them i turn down i i'm not crazy about doing that

i do one now in the series called the hunt with you know i play a nazi but this is so far the only one i've played in america ok so obviously i'm going to make an exception you mess up it's hard not to you started you started your foot you became big in film working with the director of an office been there and you won so that he saw something in you that you didn't see yourself and i'm curious what was that. well i think it's about us in alleys and that that's this need to she was she was not intellectual if she was not as it was a different kind of strength she had a child she was kind of a child almost a little bit. back. she was people always would would cast me in more in stronger roles a political role it's all very decisive women strong women amid so it was so. it

was kind of a also a gentle soul a child in this and now i want to take a look at another movie that you're currently out in theaters in france this is called 2 of us. could give a fuck you mustn't he said excuse come down to what you must get the country through you. not. this year but i'm all so problem navy green. and green week when you ought to be lesbian several pose on problem. if you want. to watch my door tonight also for. very powerful there the movie is about a long term lesbian relationship and the woman or the character who is your partner

in the movie doesn't want to come out to her children and i'm wondering why does your character stay with her she loves her it's ultimately a film about love ok there are 2 women 2 older women and i don't think there's a lot of them a lot of films are lot of publications about older lesbian women very often you know lesbian women who. have sort of this to delay thing quality for men but this is really a film about love and she loves a woman she has a passion for her and she is she is upset and devastated that she never really makes the commitment and i've heard it's been getting great reviews yeah france now before i let you go there's something completely different i want to talk about which is your instagram profile as we said you live in new york and you've got quite an unusual instagram instagram profile especially for

a well known actress you photograph normal people on the subway and actually only their legs and. quickly just why well as people have asked me what was it you have to do and instagram what twitter is something and i just don't want to put myself out i'm just a fish person who likes to you know the selfies of the self all that so and i think feet. and position of legs tell so much about people and what kind of shoes you choose and i'm not a shoe fetishes of been asked that now i'm not but i was an actor it's really interesting to see feet and so legs sort of faces into the faces because we see faces all the time but we don't give much attention to 2 legs thanks so much for coming on the show it's been on er and a pleasure but it's. the instagram ok go follow her go forward thank you so much thank you. now is a pending on what kind of person you are the artwork of simply collect says could be the stuff of dreams or nightmares build sculptures but not out of bronze or

marble or would he builds his art out of dead insects there's more. preachers there to be from another world. chanting some spooky. the artist cedric like he has from amsterdam brings dead beetles and butterflies back to life as fairies to him insects are a very special natural resource. i was always fascinated by the crow and machine like quality that they had they have this beautiful architecture that looks just so otherworldly that's a metre kind of godlike. she's created over $200.00 different fairies over the years each and every one of them is unique.

'd in the beginning cedric made drafts that he would work with now he simply gives his spontaneity free rein gather whatever i have that kind of complements each other in terms of colors and textures and then just you know start working and see what were the works out you know and sometimes it goes relatively quick and sometimes it takes me for ever. and then nothing really happens. sustainability is important to him in every piece for example the insects he uses are broken specimens given to him for free by breeders rarely are people disgusted by his works cedric says but they do have questions. most of the questions that i get the insects or what it's made of because the idea of using real materials is to make the final product look like something that's just plucked. it of nature is something that could live on its own so a lot of people don't realize that it comes from real insects when they duryea lies

that it comes from insects they have a whole different set of questions like where they where i source the insects from and where the color comes from. and like she has also those floral arrangements with animal skeletons the perfect gift for that person who's already got one of everything well that's it for this edition of arts and culture from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching and for more stories check out our website at d w dot com slash culture we hope your week is off to an inspiring start bye bye for now.

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