{"id":181517,"date":"2018-05-21T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berlin030.de\/?p=181517"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:39:02","slug":"franz-rogowski-eine-tonne-bier-ist-unglaublich-wahrhaftig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berlin030.de\/en\/2018\/05\/21\/franz-rogowski-eine-tonne-bier-ist-unglaublich-wahrhaftig\/","title":{"rendered":"Franz Rogowski: \u201cA Tonne of Beer is Incredibly Authentic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Things are going well for Franz Rogowski. Last year, he walked the red carpet in Cannes with Isabelle Huppert and directing icon Michael Haneke for \u201cHappy End\u201d. Then the Berlinale called for the actor not once, but three times. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On one hand, Rogowski was among the ten \u201cEuropean Shooting Stars\u201d \u2013 just as Daniel Craig, August Diehl, or Daniel Br\u00fchl had been before him. On the other, the actor appeared in two competition films. In Christian Petzold\u2019s \u201cTransit\u201d, he plays a refugee in Marseille. The great festival favourite, however, turned out to be the magical love story \u201cIn the Aisles\u201d. As a shy forklift driver, Rogowski falls in love with his colleague from the confectionary department, played by Sandra H\u00fcller, at a wholesale market. His performance earned him the German Film Award for Best Actor. [030] reporter Dieter O\u00dfwald spoke with the 32-year-old actor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Mr Rogowski, are you the young maverick of German cinema?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: Yes, I am very wild, by nature. And very young. That\u2019s sometimes difficult. But I\u2019m quite confident that it will all turn out well. That the path is the right one, and I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s to come. The work began long before this. The attention is there more now. But I was just as focused on my projects ten years ago as I am now. It\u2019s simply that now more people are watching, that\u2019s what has changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Some see you as the German Joaquin Phoenix \u2013 flattering or annoying?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: I heard that quite a few times at the Berlinale. Annoyed? No. I honestly take it as a compliment. (<em>Laughs<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>How did you get involved with \u201cIn the Aisles\u201d?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: At the time, director Thomas Stuber invited me to watch his \u201cHerbert\u201d at the Berlinale. I was very impressed. You can only act as well as you can work with the director. One cannot act well in isolation. It\u2019s a very intimate collaboration that develops there. Besides, the script is incredibly well written \u2013 you\u2019d have to work hard to mess it up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>How do you see your character, the shy, hopelessly-in-love forklift driver?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: Christian is relatively taciturn. He was knocked down early in life and drifted a bit off the rails. Right now he\u2019s at a stage where he wants to take control of his life and shoulder responsibility. However, he\u2019s not the sort who can just reinvent himself. Instead, he moves forward with heart and longing, taking a new step in his life.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IN DEN G\u00c4NGEN Trailer German Deutsch (2018)\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpRUxLdIZfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Do you need some overlap with a character, or can you play anything?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: I can play anything! (<em>Laughs<\/em>) I\u2019m not the sort of actor who knows exactly who this character is. Because I don\u2019t exactly know who I am myself. I can give a few basic facts, but I can answer this question no better than the question of who I really am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Is driving a forklift a bit like a children\u2019s birthday party?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: There\u2019s hardly anything that can help you in acting quite as much as a forklift. When you\u2019ve got a tonne of beer floating over your head, it\u2019s very, very concrete. If the load falls, that\u2019s the end of the film. And game over for acting as well. As an actor, you\u2019re often desperately searching for something that could be authentic. A tonne of beer is incredibly authentic and very helpful for acting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>You obtained the official permit for industrial trucks. What\u2019s so tricky about stacking high?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: It\u2019s really not that easy! With a forklift, turning the wheel left doesn\u2019t always mean the forklift goes left. Even now, I don\u2019t fully understand how it works mechanically. In any case, turning the wheel one way might well mean the forklift goes the opposite way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>You\u2019ve filmed with directing icon Terrence Malick. Are the trailers on set bigger than on German productions?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: Malick has quite a small set. He works very improvisationally; you don\u2019t sense anything ostentatious about his method. Of course, there are large extras, and theoretically, anything is possible. But Malick\u2019s fundamental rule is to have a small, light, and mobile set you can improvise with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>What\u2019s the most important quality an actor should have?<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rogowski<\/strong>: You possess a certain basic colouring from the experiences you\u2019ve had in life. Depending on what those experiences are, it gets interesting \u2013 or perhaps not. The mentality of \u201cWhat\u2019s the most important thing?\u201d \u2013 I\u2019ve long abandoned that for myself, because I don\u2019t believe in it. There simply aren\u2019t those exclusive points of relevance; instead, there\u2019s always a context, from which a kind of scale can be worked out in terms of what\u2019s important at that moment. But there are no universal answers to simple questions. There are almost as many answers as there are actors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cIn the Aisles\u201d is in cinemas from 24 May.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Photo: \u00a9 Marco Kr\u00fcger<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are going well for Franz Rogowski. 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