Margarethe
von Trotta speaks with us in an interview about her new period film
“Hannah Arendt”. The project takes Trotta on-location in three different
countries and sees her teaming up for the sixth time with actress
Barbara Sukowa.
After films like Rosenstraße (2003), I am the Other Woman (2006) and Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009), TV movies on Hessischer Rundfunk, including an episode of Tatort (2007) in Frankfurt, and a chamber play, Die Schwester
(2010), director Margarethe von Trotta is now completing a film
recounting four years in the life of German-Jewish philosopher Hannah
Arendt (1906-1975). The screenplay for the film was written by the
director herself and American co-author, Pam Katz, who she also teamed
up with for Rosenstraße in 2003.
“Janet McTeer and Glenn Close can’t get enough of each other these days. They worked together in Albert Nobbs and both veteran actresses received Oscar nominations for their performances. So they’ll be seeing each other on Oscar night. And the two are currently in the middle of filming the fifth and final season of the legal thriller Damages, set to air this summer exclusively on DIRECTV’s AUDIENCE Network™. Our friend, Damages writer Josh Payne, recently caught up with them to talk about working together, what they think is the best part of the Oscars, and much more. Read Josh’s exclusive interview with Janet McTeer below and check back tomorrow for his chat with Glenn Close.
You and Glenn Close worked together for the first time on Albert Nobbs. What would you like people to take away from that film?
I would like them to take away the idea that one should never judge a person, really. It’s about being non-judgmental. It takes an ordinary person an extraordinary amount of courage to get through an ordinary day sometimes. And certainly in the case of Albert [Close’s character in Albert Nobbs]. And also it’s a film about poverty and the people who end up at the bottom of the food chain are usually the women. And there’s something wonderful about Hubert [McTeer’s character in Albert Nobbs], who— before women could vote, before women had any power—Hubert takes on the role of a male figure and has power, and can end up rescuing Helen [played by Mia Wasikowska] and can end up doing things that we now slightly take for granted. If they’re financially independent then they can look out for each other. And I think also, just that thing of big dreams. Big dreams in little lives.
Has the friendship you formed with Glenn on Albert Nobbs had an impact on your Damages work? Does it make it easier to do scenes with her?
Well, we haven’t done that many scenes because we’re in opposition [on opposing sides of a lawsuit]. But when we do have scenes it makes it easier, yes, because you’ve already got a relationship going.
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“I really don’t have a ton to do in [Woman in Black]. I play Ciaran Hinds’s wife. Ciaran and I have worked together many times and all we do is laugh from start to finish. And Daniel Radcliffe, of course, was just delightful, I have to say. Absolutely delightful. Somehow, I appear to be the only English actor who wasn’t in a Harry Potter movies — I don’t know how that happened.
“Daniel and I hadn’t met before and it was so lovely to watch a young actor transitioning from all of those things he did as a kid to now being a young adult doing young adult kind of roles. And he’s so clever. He’s a very, very intelligent young man and such a nice man for somebody who has gone through that whole uber-uber fame at such a very young age. I think that’s quite tough on the kids during their developing years. He just turned out this incredibly hard-working, very concentrated, absolutely charming young man. I thought he was delightful.”I also asked McTeer a question I frequently pose to straight actors I interview: “Do you remember the first time a gay person came out to you?” Her response:… “
