I Only Dance When I Go Out.

I Come From A Very Small Rural Village In Northern Germany, And Being An Actor Never Even Seemed Like A Possibility. I Thought You Would Have To Live In A Big City, Or Be Discovered Somewhere, Or Be Born Into An Artistic Family, Which I Certainly Wasn't.

I Get Offered A World War Ii Movie At Least Once A Week Just Because I Speak German And Was Born There. I Have Always Stayed Away From It Because I Didn't Want To Be Put Into That Box.

Well, I Don't Know Anything About Television. I'd Never Done It Before. Initially, It Was Quite Daunting To Take On So Much Challenge And So Much Time With It. I Think It Is A Great Outlet For An Actress Because You Really Have 13 Hours To Bring A Character To Life, Which Is So Much More Than With Film, And You Have The Luxury Of Time To Tell A Story And To Really Color A Character.

I Don’t Know How You Prepare For Something Like That. I Cannot Imagine Living In A Fishbowl Like That. I Don’t Live Here So I Don’t Know It Will Be That Bad Anyway Because I Live In Paris And We Don’t Have That Sort Of Phenomenon There. So I Don’t Know, We’ll See What Happens.

What I Really Tried To Do With Helen Was Make Her Show This Sad Side Of Her. She Was Married Off At 16, Was So Young And Living In This Castle That Can't Leave Because Of How She Looks, And Married To A Man She Hates And Three Times Her Age.