![]() ![]() It is crucial to have someone who believes in you (as an actor) and, for instance, gives you an opportunity to play in something new. It’s more luck of whom you get to meet and who believes in you. And then, of course, there’s always a percentage of luck involved. I did a lot of theatre, and it gave me some acting background. I believe when you’re suddenly shot to stardom and fame, then it’s really challenging to stay up there all the time. ![]() I didn’t become too successful early on, which in retrospect, was something pleasing. Well, I think my career took a quite classical path. For you, it was Game of Thrones, or maybe some other project has opened you more opportunities in the film industry? What is your take on this matter? Learning some English was a core part of the process.Įvery actor has his breakthrough role. There was a long and bumpy road ahead of me. That decision grew in me for several years: I had to redefine myself and my previous career. And at a certain point, I decided I also wanted to try out camera work. I got a place in a drama school, and then I went on to be with several theatre companies all over Germany. I wanted to work in the theatre, and that’s pretty much what I did for the next ten years (!). And I loved it! Then I went back to Germany, and I wanted to pursue a career on stage as I did not even think about film or TV. For me, it was an extraordinary time because I experienced a feeling mostly known as “culture shock”. I took the opportunity to become an exchange student that went to the US for a year. Well, initially, when I went to the United States, the Berlin Wall had just come down, and I was ready to explore and travel the whole world. Have you improved it over the years, or was there a moment that forced you to become acquainted with it? I know that you stayed in the United States after the fall of the Berlin Wall. You are a German actor, however, your main advantage in the industry is your English. Das Boot proposed a much more subtle and nuanced way of looking at that particularly ambiguous period. What is more, Wolfgang Petersen did quite a brave thing: for the first time, the film actually portrayed German soldiers as human beings, and not as cliche monsters as it had been done many times before (however, understandably). It’s set in a German submarine, and it creates this claustrophobic atmosphere that gives you somehow, in a very clever way, the tangibility of the war’s horror. First of all, there’s so much happening in the movie. And I know that it had a lasting impression on me. The first time I watched it, I was eighteen. What Das Boot, as a film, has meant to you before participating in the TV series? Was it the title that has – proverbially – changed your life as a kid? Sometimes, I felt like I have been playing in Casablanca ! The whole motive feels like a tiny film noir. Surprisingly, during the third season, Forster is sent to Portugal to investigate the murder of another party activist. One can imagine what happened in a Polish concentration camp.Īlso, it’s the first time we see him as a civilian. I think that it’s discussed at some point in season three, but it’s not fully revealed or explained what has happened in between that’s pretty much left to the imagination of the audience. Yes! And it’s not fully explained by our show. That is a tremendous change in his career. And so when we encounter him now at the start of season three, there has been a time gap, and we suddenly examine him as quite a broken man. Although he has some doubts if this is the right move, he’s too vain and career-driven, to turn down this fantastic opportunity. For instance, he is thrown into horrific situations and commits horrible crimes! However, at the end of season two, respectively, Forster gets promoted and sent to Poland to work in a concentration camp. As the story progresses, he’s met with several challenges. Hagen feels that it is the only right reasoning and this is the way to live and deal with the surrounding reality. He’s a very ambitious man and an indisputable believer in Nazi ideology. Tom Wlaschiha: Forster, when we meet him, is the head of the Gestapo in France. Jan Tracz: What can you tell me about your main character of Das Boot, Hagen Forster? ![]()
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