{"id":54202,"date":"2023-11-15T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/sandra-huller-steps-cautiously-into-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:00:00","slug":"sandra-huller-steps-cautiously-into-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/sandra-huller-steps-cautiously-into-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra H\u00fcller Steps\u2014Cautiously\u2014Into the Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">There\u2019s a vacuousness to Hedwig that, in H\u00fcller\u2019s iciness, comes across as deeply disturbing. \u201cSandra\u2019s struggle is in her performance,\u201d Glazer says. \u201cIt\u2019s a portrait of someone nonthinking. [Hedwig] never stops to think. She\u2019s always doing. Always moving. There\u2019s no self-reflection.\u201d H\u00fcller\u2019s commitment in that regard is remarkable, since the very act of making the movie unsettled her. Her costar Friedel tells me that they expressed nervousness to each other throughout the shoot, though they both felt deeply proud of the final product: \u201cWe had phone calls: \u2018What are we doing here? Is this right?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">H\u00fcller is always questioning\u2014herself, her material, her character. There seems to be a kind of clinical severity to the way she assesses situations, and she does not shy away from the gravity of a given moment. Yet in making <em>The Zone of Interest,<\/em> she made room for a familiar taste of home. Her dog, accompanying H\u00fcller on set, wound up in the movie, running around and creating dysfunction amid Glazer\u2019s controlled portrait of evil. (H\u00fcller guards her privacy to the extent that she won\u2019t publicly reveal her pet\u2019s name.) So what was it like, allowing the warmly personal into such a severely professional environment? \u201cWell, she\u2019s her own dog personality. She\u2019s not a part of me,\u201d H\u00fcller replies\u2014with a laugh! A new layer unpeeled. She\u2019s smiling now, alive at the very mention of her pup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Glazer, the British director, was apparently grateful that H\u00fcller\u2019s dog was untrained, providing the movie with a fresh dose of chaos. At this, I mention that my own undisciplined dog would probably not fare so well on a film set. \u201cWhere is your dog?\u201d H\u00fcller asks immediately. \u201cOh, please, please. I want to see him.\u201d I look around but he is, alas, out for his morning walk. Then we share, against all odds, personal stories about the lives we lead with our pets. We somehow apologize to each other for getting <em>too<\/em> private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Eventually, I lead us back toward the subject of work, and H\u00fcller answers my initial question rather dutifully: \u201cTo be loved by a creature, while playing this character, was really soothing and important for me.\u201d I can tell she\u2019d rather go back to the dog stories.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO caption__text\">Dress by <strong>Giorgio Armani;<\/strong> shoes by <strong>Christian Louboutin;<\/strong> earrings by <strong>John Hardy.<\/strong> Throughout: makeup products by <strong>Chanel;<\/strong> nail enamel by <strong>Dior Vernis.<\/strong><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW caption__credit\">Photograph by Emma Summerton; styled by Carolina Orrico.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\"><strong>H\u00fcller is<\/strong> a true international star, making movies across Europe\u2014she performs regularly in English, German, and French and is currently improving her Spanish. But in Germany, a sticky tradition continues to drive her up the wall. Theatrically exhibited films in the country are often dubbed, so the characters all speak German\u2014even if, in the original cut, they definitely do not. H\u00fcller tends to dub her non-German-language movies herself. She recalls the \u201ccruel\u201d dubbing experience for <em>Anatomy of a Fall,<\/em> which she agreed to at the request of its German distributor. She\u2019s visibly upset by the memory of being in that recording booth. \u201cIt makes me so mad, I can\u2019t even tell you,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The movie\u2019s communication barrier\u2014Sandra takes the stand not well-versed in French yet is required to speak it\u2014is crucial to the narrative. But the dubbed German cut has each character speaking the same language anyway, so that plot point\u2014that key aspect of H\u00fcller\u2019s exacting characterization\u2014simply evaporates. \u201cWhen I\u2019m acting, voice is such an important part of it: It says so much about where I am or how I really feel, if I am tense, if I\u2019m at ease,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s a long topic, and I\u2019m still not over the fact that I really did it.\u201d She says she may never dub again: \u201cIt\u2019s awful. It\u2019s really\u2014I find it humiliating and sort of damaging to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It may sound like a small thing, but H\u00fcller\u2019s at her most vulnerable telling me this. In conversation, as in her movies, she builds slowly toward candor. She doesn\u2019t make it easy. The real gift comes when she lets you in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">HAIR, DANILO; MAKEUP, KATE LEE; MANICURE, MARISA CARMICHAEL; TAILOR, MARKO GUILLE\u0301N; SET DESIGN, ROBERT DORAN. PRODUCED ON LOCATION BY VIEWFINDERS. FOR DETAILS, GO TO VF.COM\/CREDITS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/11\/sandra-huller-steps-cautiously-into-the-spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a vacuousness to Hedwig that, in H\u00fcller\u2019s iciness, comes across as deeply disturbing. \u201cSandra\u2019s struggle is in her performance,\u201d Glazer says. \u201cIt\u2019s a portrait of someone nonthinking. [Hedwig] never stops to think. She\u2019s always doing. Always moving. 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