#Florence kasumba movie
When the movie "Black Panther" came out, of course many young people saw the movie and viewed people with my skin color who were playing positive roles and are now role models so to speak. Because these people are also normal in our lives.ĭo you consider yourself a role model for others? I hope that people dare to give a role to a person wearing a headscarf or someone who is black or someone with a disability a role without having to explain anything. And I wish for all the other people, for everything that now comes, that one sees more diversity.) And that will come, I see that already now and there's still a lot more possible. So if I now wish to play the girl next door, that's a role where I say "Yes, I want to play that, just a normal role" - that was never an issue abroad. (Since I also work a lot abroad, of course, such offers were different from the very beginning. I'm happy that Germany is now going in another direction. I didn't understand this because I know so many people who, like me, grew up in Germany, who are my age and are the second generation of immigrant families and who simply speak normal German.Īlongside Maria Furtwängler while filming Tatort
#Florence kasumba tv
My appearance or my origins didn't play a role in theater productions, but I remember my first TV roles were sometimes post-synchronized, because it felt "disturbing" if someone looking like I did could speak perfect German.
How does it feel to now be investigator Anais Schmitz? In your previous Tatort appearances, you were sometimes cast as a suspect or a criminal, often in roles of a migrant. And now I'm one of the investigators, and that's special, because I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision. And I was wishing I'd one day become a Tatort detective. In 2010, I appeared in three Tatort episodes and I noticed that I found the work and my colleagues' work interesting. When I shot my first Tatort in 2005, I noticed how much I liked it. Is this an unusual experience for you?Ībsolutely.
This year you will be playing a Tatort detective alongside Maria Furtwängler. When we're told the shoot ends on Sunday, I know I could leave on a vacation the next day. That's never happened to me here in Germany. The entire cast is flown in for three days – and actors come from all over the world. That's something I haven't seen in Germany. You can't shoot for a week and then say, "that was the wrong person," but that can be done in Hollywood. The actress has also performed in musicalsīut I didn't know this in the film world, because German productions have a smaller budget. I know that from musicals, in which each role is cast to different actors, to make sure that if someone is ever kicked out, the show can go on. I've noticed that you can get replaced very quickly if you don't work well right away. The people involved were incredibly respectful and hard-working. It was obviously special to act in such a huge film. What was particular about the Black Panther shoot? In Germany, we sometimes shoot an entire film in a month. We spent a month shooting it, that's incredibly long. There's this showdown at the end of Black Panther. I can do both, but I prefer to have a bit more time to prepare. You come in, you're shown the choreography and then you do it. That means the training is longer than it is here, whereas here it is simply taken for granted that you need to make it work then and there. Otherwise, I've often experienced in Hollywood that if there's a larger budget, we are brought in earlier in the process and we're really prepared for the role. I look at my character and if I have questions, I can ask them.
For my preparation it doesn't make any difference.