He is almost categorical.The next time he will make a film, Daniel Brühl will not be the headliner."I can't spend so much time with myself, looking at myself, listening to me," he explains.It creates self -hatred after a while.But, for the time being, the German actor is the star of his first feature film as director, Next Door.This comedy is, he says, an "eastern", a western that takes place in Berlin, a game between two men, two neighbors, one pushing the other to reveal themselves, to reveal its secrets, baseness and hypocrisies.A clarification: Daniel Brühl embodies a famous German actor named Daniel.

Exactly as we have known since 2003, year in which he played the first role of Good Bye, Lenin !, Of Wolfgang Becker.He interpreted there a young man of GDR who, to protect his very fragile mother, hides the fall of the wall and made every effort to make the subterfuge not discovered: he buys pickles as alone could produce it,Created with false socialist television programs, makes him believe that Coca-Cola is a communist drink.

He masters French, speaks Spanish

He could have been, in the eyes of the world public, the actor of a single film.On the contrary, Daniel Brühl has turned everywhere.With Spanish, but also an Icelandic, Dutch, English, New Zealand and Brazilian.In the 2000s, he also became a faithful of Julie Delpy's cinema, with whom he collaborated for 2 days in Paris (2007), then the Countess (2009), and again for Two Days in New York (2012) and MyZoe (2019).He also, of course, shot in Hollywood (in revenge in the skin (2007), by Paul Greengrass, Inglourious Basterds (2009), of Quentin Tarantino, Rush (2013), from Ron Howard, to Captain America:Civil War (2016), Anthony and Joe Russo.

Cosmopolitanism that he did not discover with success.He masters the Frenchman, whom he learned as a family (his two uncles married French women, "Françoise de Paris and Françoise de Toulouse").He also speaks Spanish perfectly, his mother's language.He was born in Barcelona and grew up in Cologne.

The idea of his first film was just born in Barcelona."In 2010, after years in Germany, I returned to live in Spain," he says.I had found a small apartment, in a very cool, very "authentic" neighborhood, but my behavior was ridiculous.I walked in the street with my keys in my hand to show that I was indeed from here.One day, in a restaurant, a man sits in front of him: "He looked at me with an air that immediately made me feel that he hated me.All my attitude revolted him.He was clearly a local worker, and I was there with my suitcase, I arrived from Germany, I was talking super hard to the servers, of Lionel Messi, of the match of the day before ... "So was born Next Door.

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