2023-12-08 22:57:19
The German actor chosen by Giorgio Diritti, Ira Sachs and Mainetti, is one of the hot names of the awards season. «My identity as an actor is to be fluid»
It was the Nazi soldier who in Gabriele Mainetti’s Freaks played on the piano, with six fingers in each hand, pieces that smelled of the future like Radiohead’s Creep. In Disco Boy by Giacomo Abruzzese the young Belarusian who tried to reach France clandestinely. For Giorgio Diritti in Lubo – presented at Venice 80 – he became the street artist of the Jenisch ethnic group forcibly enlisted in the Swiss army in 1939 and forced to try to take justice into his own hands after discovering that his children had been given up for adoption to be “re-educated”. Thanks to his ease with languages (he speaks three perfectly, he can act in as many as he wants) and his ability to transform, for Franz Rogowski, German, born in 1986, the profession of an actor has no boundaries. We find him on Mubi in Passages by Ira Sachs where he plays Thomas, a brilliant and tyrannical director who lets himself be dragged into an intricate triangle with his boyfriend Ben Wishlow and his lover Adèle Exarchoplous. A role for which he is one of the leading names of the awards season in view of the Oscars, already crowned by the New York Film Critics Association and entered into several five. Lubo and Thomas, two characters who intrigued him, he tells Corriere. «Lubo’s story is terrible and removed. The Swiss government separated the Yenish people: the women were sterilized, the children locked in children’s institutions or given to peasant families, erasing their roots. Switzerland is one of the “good” nations, yet it happened, that country also has its dark sides.”
In Passages he is a man who moves outside the rules, he makes his own. «I believe that in each of us there is a Thomas, we can all understand it. Part tyrant and part victim. He explores his sexuality, he is tormented, he doesn’t know how to be in a relationship because he isn’t at peace with himself and this is eating him up. In their triangle, in reality, all three have unresolved problems. There are also many intimate scenes, useful to give the idea of the relationship between them. Thomas and his boyfriend have sex like a long-term couple. With Adèle he is more adventurous, a discovery.” He works a lot, his directors, of different nationalities, agree in saying that he is a cinema animal. «I accept that others see me in their own way, every role is an opportunity for growth. There are no small parts but only small actors: you can be great even in a scene of just a few minutes. I like that I don’t associate myself with just one type of character. I love traveling through time.” He understood it at school, he says. «It wasn’t made for me, I couldn’t stand repetitive things, they told me they weren’t good, they failed me, I left, I couldn’t stand certain group logic. I experienced moments in which I was losing myself and I started doing theatre, dance, I arrived in Berlin at 20, I didn’t have clear ideas about the profession of an actor but about the need to find something to direct all my energies towards. I also did acrobatics, performances, looking for my place. And I feel that cinema is.” He likes being called by Italian directors. «Your sets are the most chaotic but also the ones where anything can happen. Mainetti, Abruzzese, Diritti are very different from them. They have in common a creativity and an ability to make people understand who they are.” As for him, «today I’m a bit Lubo, tomorrow I’ll be someone else. Identity must be fluid.”
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December 8, 2023 (modified December 8, 2023 | 9.56 pm)
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