Til Schweiger emphasizes that he never showed up drunk on a film set – “except for that one day.” He would still have had some leftover alcohol from the night before. He regrets that today.
Actor Til Schweiger (59) was self-critical about a day when he was at work with “leftover alcohol” on the film set.
“I’ve known for years that I drink too much alcohol. But I’ve never gone on set drunk, except for that one day,” said Schweiger in the podcast “It’s all in the head” with therapist Florian Holsboer. That was still the remaining alcohol from the previous night. “That was unprofessional and stupid.”
However, his therapist Holsboer confirmed that he was not an alcoholic and that is why he never wanted to go to a rehab clinic. “I don’t want to withdraw. I want to continue drinking wine because I love wine and I know a lot about wine. But I want to have the control I used to have again,” said Schweiger. In recent years he has lost control too often. He told his therapist: “I want to have control again. I want control over the alcohol. And we’re working on that.”
Debate about conditions on film sets
In recent months there has been a debate in the film and media industry about the film “Manta Manta – Second Part”. In a report, “Spiegel” picked up on allegations about the set conditions there. Constantin Film initiated a review by an external law firm, which presented mixed results. Schweiger then commented in detail in a “Stern” interview in October.
In the podcast “It’s all in your head” with the therapist and Munich medical professor Holsboer, Schweiger also talks about the topic of mental health. His film “Honey in the Head” was also about dementia – a topic that also concerned him a lot in his private life, as he now said. His mother was suffering from Alzheimer’s. “You could still talk to her, not always, it always went up and down.” After the film, many doctors and relatives of those affected wrote to him and thanked him for removing the stigmatization of the disease.
Source: Stern
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