Did it upset you that critics in Cannes laughed at the talking fox? Thank God, some people do react like me! This idea in Hollywood that you can produce a film that will hit a broad audience – and you do test screenings to see when people laugh – it would be impossible for me. What kind of film would I like to see? How would I like to be provoked? Then some of the audience share my views, some does not. I kind of consider myself to be the public.
Do you worry that people will hate the film? So I don’t trust her in that sense! But it’s very nice. She’s fantastic in that way, because she supports anything. Because she’s said for a long time, ‘Why are you depressed? You made the very best film.’ And I said, ‘But you haven’t seen it.’ She said, ‘Yes, but I know.’ Come on! How can you trust her? She’s very, very positive about whatever I’m doing in life.
LvT: No, but I don’t usually I don’t trust her. Did you ask your wife she thinks of the film? People are accusing you of misogyny again. I have been under therapy for several years. I couldn’t direct and handle a camera at the same time. I was not at my very best, so all the things that I normally enjoy, I was not able to do. LvT: I felt like an old man that was helped through the film by the actors. You’ve been suffering from depression for some time. But then when it becomes fictional, there’s a limitation. But when you think about all the footage we now see from real life, I feel like you can show anything. And then someone told me that in porn you are not allowed to stop until the director tells you! So this poor guy was incredible… Do you worry that audiences with get numbed to the violence? In fact, it was funny, for the scene in which she masturbates him and the blood comes out, they just kept on going. It was a courageous performance because she is a very, very shy person. And I’m very, very happy that she got the Best Actress prize in Cannes. LvT: After reading the script and discussing with me how those scenes were going to be made, there was never any doubt in her mind. Was she worried about the nudity and violence? We had no problems whatsoever.Ĭharlotte Gainsbourg in Antichrist. LvT: Charlotte came in and said, ‘I’m dying to get the part no matter what.’ So I think it was a decision she made very early and she stuck to it.
I was so mad, because you can’t wait two months. And yes, Eva Green wanted to do it so we nearly had a Bond girl in the film! We had lots of discussions but her agents definitely didn’t want her to do it. LvT: We spent a long time looking for the female. Is it true that Eva Green wanted to play the female role? She said, ‘You dare not take the part!’ And you shouldn’t say that to Willem! So he jumped in. And I said, ‘Sure!’ He was a little reluctant to start with, but then my wife did this brilliant thing.
But Willem sent me a letter asking if I had some work for him. LvT: Originally, we were thinking of younger people. How did you persuade Willem Dafoe to star? The only country in Europe that’s going to censor it is Germany. But very few countries are going to censor the film. I could see that in Cannes that there were people beforehand that had decided already either not to like it or like it. Did you expect Antichrist to be so controversial? So if it’s a good title for this film, I don’t know! But it’s a good title. It’s not really a horror film and it’s not really religious. Lars von Trier: I always thought it was a good title.
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