Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee
“You fall in love again”
In “Brick” Matthias Schweighöfer and Ruby O. Fee play a strained couple who is locked up together. So was the shoot for them.
In the new Netflix film “Brick” (from July 10th) Ruby O. Fee (29) and Matthias Schweighöfer (44) play a few in the crisis – which is suddenly walled in in his apartment. In an interview with the news agency Spot on News, the two who have been a couple for about six years, about love, conflicts, work together – and an intimate torque that will be remembered forever.
What did you ask “Brick” that you said: “Yes, we do that together”?
Matthias Schweighöfer: First of all, there was a chance to make a film together. And then the concept: what happens if a couple who actually wants to separate is locked up together in an apartment?
Ruby O. Fee: That was exciting. We were snuggled up on the sofa and could not put the script away because we wanted to know what was happening in the end.
What would you rather recommend couples in the crisis: lock in a weekend at home or do a joint project?
Schweighöfer: to take responsibility together, if it is difficult, make other rooms. A joint project can be super attractive and bring them together.
Fee: It welds together to have something in which both take responsibility and feel a love for.
Schweighöfer: And if it doesn’t work – then you have it black on white.
Many couples would shy away from working together for work because you are so much together privately. How is that with you?
Schweighöfer: Yes, we can’t get enough of each other. But you have to say that we don’t see ourselves overly privately. I was just three months away when we saw each other eight, nine days. Of course, it is all the better to be able to do something together – in our case this is the total luxury.
There is a particularly intensive dispute scene in the film from you – what is it like to let these emotions out in front of the camera?
Fee: I had a lot of fun. It was a nice challenge to play something like that and just scream.
Schweighöfer: It was a nice moment to play that with Ruby, because of course we had to go really deep. When you cry there and suddenly cry – you support yourself in emotion, that’s totally touching. You fall in love with more, I will never forget that.
Fee: It is touching to see what the other is playing at the moment.
Can you maybe let something out of such moments that you don’t dare otherwise?
Schweighöfer: There is nothing we don’t dare. But we hardly argue either. In this respect, it was a nice room to say: how deep can we go? What happens if you really pop the truth on your head?
Fee: And to feel: How much compassion do you actually have for the roles you play?
And if it crashes with you – who will wall and who is looking for the conversation?
Fee: We are always looking for the conversation. Communication is the be -all and end -all. It is about a loving exchange and about getting to know the world of the other better. This often prevents it from crackling.
Schweighöfer: Wall brings no movement – and movement is important in a relationship. This is exactly what it goes in “Brick”: they have to get a shelter to create movement and come to the second floor. Fortunately, nobody walks with us.
The story is also about getting out when everything is finally on the table. Do you think you should tell yourself everything in a relationship?
Schweighöfer: It’s nice if you can tell everything – but don’t have to. One should not completely dissolve in a relationship. You stay your own individual.
Did you take a knowledge from the film for yourself?
Schweighöfer: It is always nice to go through something together. Fortunately, they had this wall in the film – otherwise they would have wondered to the end of their lives: what would have been if I hadn’t left? The moment when you think “I have to get out of here” is the most exciting. Especially where it hurts, where the fear is.
The two no longer come out of their apartment, but a home is – actually – also something nice. If you had to make a decision: never again in home or never out again?
Fee: It depends on what means at home. If it is purely material, I would say: Forever on the road – you and I are my home, we make the rest beautiful.
Schweighöfer: I learned in this regard: at home is not a place. It is something that has to be in yourself. If you have that, you can stop all over the world.
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Source: Stern
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