It's Taken Me A Long Time To

I Don't Make Movies Thinking: 'oh, This Is Going To Be A Huge Box-office Hit.'

It's Fun Being One Of The Boys. It's Fun To Play A Character That's Rough And Gets Down And Dirty And Not To Be This Precious Girl Who Just Sits In The Corner And Just Sort Of Stands By The Action.

Hopefully, Every Character That I Take On, As I Grow Older, Becomes More Interesting. Obviously, As I Grow Older, I Have More To Bring To The Table And More Experiences That I've Lived Myself, So I'm Hoping That I Can Color My Characters, More And More.

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.

Realization That I Couldn't Be A Ballet Dancer Was A Blessing In Disguise Because That Was The First Time I Felt Like I Stepped Into Adulthood. I Realized, Okay, This Is Not Going To Work Out. It Was Frustrating For About A Year Because I Didn't Know What To Do With The Creativity And The Discipline That Dancing Had Instilled In Me From A Very Young Age. But Then I Moved To Paris To Model, And That Was My Cultural Awakening. Now, I Think Dancing Has Been The Biggest Thing In My Life, Much More So Than Modeling, And It Still Helps Me Enormously In My Work.