She starred inMichael Hanekes 2009 drama,The White Ribbon.
She began:
The pro is that because you don’t know anything, you are very innocent.
It does get lost when you do the thing over and over again.
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I knew nothing about high heels, about styling, about press.
I didn’t know anything, and I just felt quite overwhelmed at the time.
I’ve been very blessed with that.
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So confirm that you have a team that you like, and that knows who you are.
We never talked about it.
She worked withDavid TennantonAround the World in 80 Days.
He is so lovely.
He is so talented.
I don’t know how anyone’s gonna make it work.
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I was genuinely a little starstruck from the beginning to the end of that shoot.
I sometimes found it hard to realize that I was acting opposite him.
Simone [Bar] was someone very, very unique in the German film world.
The 1972 Munich Olympics saw an American sports broadcasting crew unexpectedly tasked with covering a hostage situation involving Israeli athletes.
But it was international.
She was an Academy member as well, and cast all the big international things that came into Germany.
After I went to Guildhall for three years,Babylon Berlinwas cast, and she did the casting.
Benesch dubbedSeptember 5the last gift [Simone] gave me.
Learning How to Play a Translator
That is a very specific and unique skill.
Benesch certainly makes the most of that last gift.
I love when there’s something that a character can do that I can’t do.
Marianne Gebhardt is a translator.
I speak two languages fluently, obviously, but I don’t know how to simultaneously translate.
I’m sure you’ve seen these people in press rooms, people who do simultaneous translating.
What kind of NDAs do you have to sign, and all that stuff.
Going into filmmingSeptember 5, Benesch suspected the scenes involving the simultaneous translating would be most challenging for her.
However, that didnt wind up being the case.
It didn’t feel right.
And John and I kept seeing it popping back up on the film, like, Oh no!
That scene … We’re gonna have to work through that.
September 5is now in theaters nationwide.
