“Alarm for Cobra 11” stars about their stunts
For this you have to be “physically fit”
“Alarm for Cobra 11” is back with new films. In the interview, Pia Stutzenstein and Erdoğan Atalay rave about the filming.
After a two-year TV break, the “Alarm for Cobra 11” stars Erdoğan Atalay (58, there since 1996) and Pia Stutzenstein (35, since 2020) returned last week with the new film “Kein Kinderspiel” (January 14, RTL ) back. Now the second primetime film “Hoffnung” (January 21st, 8:15 p.m., RTL) is on the program. In a double interview with the news agency spot on news, the two series stars reveal how they prepared for the stunt-filled filming and what scared them.
The cult series “Alarm for Cobra 11” is also enjoying success as a film series. How do the series format and the feature films differ?
Erdoğan Atalay: In the 90 minutes you have a lot more time to tell something. There’s just a lot more time for atmospheric stories, moments and funny elements that you can just leave alone. This is really nice.
How did you prepare for filming the feature-length films?
Pia Stutzenstein: I go to the gym to keep myself fit anyway. But if you do a stunt yourself, you’ll still feel like you’ve been hit by a truck the next day. Your adrenaline goes up, down, up, down – you don’t do the stunt once, but two or three times. You can’t really prepare for that. You just have to be physically fit and that’s Erdoğan and me.
Atalay: Yes, or you think: “It’s easy, I’ll just break down the door with the fire extinguisher.” And then your whole shoulder flies out. That happens too. This isn’t even a silly anecdote, it’s just stupid.
Do the stunts ever scare you?
Stutzenstein: Yes, I’m afraid of heights and I had to climb around on a house in “hope.”
Atalay: Since when have you been afraid of heights? I didn’t even know that.
Stutzenstein: How many times have we both stood up somewhere and you said: “Just don’t look down.” But you don’t know what it looks like inside me. (laughs)
Atalay: I don’t want to downplay height concerns. Fear, on the other hand, is not a good companion because fear makes you so small. You are more likely to be vigilant and that is also important. What’s nice is that you’re filled with adrenaline in moments like this. Everything else is then completely unimportant and you only live in this moment.
Stutzenstein: I had to jump down from the house. That was cool and fun too. But then I had to start laughing. Of course we couldn’t use that because an action hero doesn’t laugh when he jumps off a roof. That was a bit of a shame, but that’s what happens.
What were your favorite moments while filming the two films?
Atalay: We actually have them all the time. It’s all the things that have to do with adrenaline. There are many moments there.
Stutzenstein: My favorite moment is always when we are in the rollover simulator. I love that, it feels like a roller coaster ride. This is a lot of fun. And the jump into the open air with a laugh.
Aside from the fear of heights, what other challenges were there? For example, what was it like filming with the baby for “No Child’s Play”?
Atalay: Whenever there are children on set, the youth welfare office is there too. And they gave us a great compliment. They thought it was nice how we looked after the children while filming. That touched me because I didn’t know it was different on other sets.
Stutzenstein: It was really cool that we filmed with the baby. The baby’s mother actually played the mother in the film.
Atalay: That’s of course a wonderful memory that’s captured there.
Both new films also deal with the topic of motherhood and the pressure of society – Vicky (Stutzenstein) is also confronted with this. How do you perceive that?
Stutzenstein: When my role Vicky is traveling with the baby, she already develops motherly feelings. And then she secretly wants a partner and a child, but the topic is still very far away for her. She is 100 percent dedicated to the job. The pressure is subconscious: several of my friends are having children and then it’s completely normal for people to ask: “Why don’t you have a child yet?” But maybe you can’t have a child or there are just other things in between. It is common practice to have at least one child by the time you are 30, which is why the question naturally arises.
Atalay: You’re only 28 years old, so there’s still time. (laughs)
Stutzenstein: People are getting older and older. A friend of mine is 39 and is becoming a mother for the first time. Everyone has to decide for themselves. You can also be an older mother – why not?
Atalay: The question is always, how much space do you personally give to this pseudo-society? Who exactly is putting pressure on that?
Stutzenstein: Well, my mother is already asking. Or even speaking privately: My gynecologist also said: “Don’t you want to have children?” This is society: the people around you who then ask you.
Atalay: Yes, but why don’t you have any children yet? (laughs)
Stutzenstein: The right person is missing, he’s not there yet.
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