I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.
When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.
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.
In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.