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Don’t Come Knocking

Working with Wim Wenders was a lifetime goal of mine, and when I got the part in this film, I think I danced around the room for at least a week.

A living legend, Wim is uncontestedly one of the greatest directors of all time. He is brilliant and an amazing human being. Someone I love very dearly. Getting to work with Sam Shepherd and Jessica Lange, Tim Roth and Gabriel Mann was a honor and a treat.

We had a really good time on this show. We shot it in Butte, Montana. A strange and yet beautiful place. It is a town that time forgot. It was one of, if not the first town to have electricity in that part of the country. It had once been a booming mining town, but when the mines were closed down, the town was kind of abandoned. When you go there now it is as if time simply stopped. All of the buildings are just as they were at the turn of the century. There is a very odd and mysterious light in that place. A very small population and packs of wild dogs run wild on the empty streets. Its very cool.

Wim is a great director to work with. He is wonderful with actors and shoots for the thing I love most in acting-realism. I am a HUGE fan of his work. Particularly, “Wings of Desire” and “Paris Texas”.



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One Response to “Don’t Come Knocking”

  1. Arno

    Zapped right into the beginning of this film last night and couldn’t stop watching it. It was on a Belgian public TV-channel no less, so no adverts. That’s what I love best, an unexpected gem late at night. Wonderful.

    Took me a while to recognise you but after I did, decided to take a look here. Hadn’t seen the new website yet, all praise to the designer.

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