I was really nervous about people booing, because my mother had gone for a film 20 years earlier and had a terrible time with people booing, whistling, so I knew that in Cannes people can get aggressive.

I think it's a legend that Lars von Trier is such a tough person to work with. I really didn't experience any of that. Of course, he's difficult in the sense that what he asks for is difficult. For my part in Antichrist, I suffered a bit. But it was the part - it wasn't him. He wasn't cruel. On the contrary, he was very kind. You know what you're up for when you read the pitch.

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.