http://www.tvspielfilm.de/inhalt/interview/9723/eva_habermann/eva_habermann.html Translation by: Asunja -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERVIEW: EVA HABERMANN ".... then it will work." So far Eva Habermann had the image of a beautiful "squickyclean" woman stuck to her. That is what the 21 year old is going to change in the next few months. TV: Your new picture is a Rosamunde-Pilcher production. is it a good story? E: "Two Sisters" is a kind of a Cinderella variant. I fall in love with a somewhat snobbish lord. Then he meets my sister and gets together with her. but in the end she lets him go, because she sees that he loves me. And well, its kitsch, kitsch, kitsch, kitsch! TV: So one starts to grin/smirk while filming? E: No, one gets into it pretty much. I also think we got it done pretty good, so it doesn't appear laughable. TV: From "Pumuckl-TV" to Pilcher-a lot will bring up the cliche of the superclean blond. Will it irritate you? E: I have not been around so long, that anything could irritate me. TV: No image problem? E: No, thank goodness not. After the Pilcher film I filmed a comedy like "Pretty Woman", something totally different. Right now people don't have a concrete image of Eva H. TV: So a lot of doors can open for yourself... E: And I will be able to learn a lot from the multitudes of roles. Even though I have been taking acting, speech and singing lessons since my 14th year, to me it is a hand on learning process. That's for me the thrilling thing of the profession; that you can never completely learn it and that you can always get better. TV: Next year you will film for the ARD (one of the major German networks) a summer-sun- beach series, which already has given you the stamp of the "German Baywatch Pamela". E: Of course "Baywatch" comes right to mind, since the series plays at the beach. We probably will also run around in bikinis, that offers itself. Otherwise I am really not the Pamela-Anderson-type. TV: When one goes through the archives, one finds mainly yellowes articles about the "love weekend" with the friend in Canada, the "romantic vacation" with colleague Fabian Harloff... E: In the beginning it's important that you work on your popularity. But I won't do that again. TV: bad experiences? E: Of course often quotes are made up like: "Since I am in love, I think I am more beautiful." No one says something like that. TV: But you just take it? E: It doesn't matter to me, I rarely read it. TV: You didn't stand exited next to the newspaper stand? E: Sure, in the beginning i went at once and got the magazine and thought "Oh that is really great", but somewhere I did notice that it does not help you along. TV: And does the Canadian friend still exist? E: The job is pretty much hostile to relationships. TV: What was the impulse to say with 14: "I'll become an actress."? E: The impulse was a casting call that my sister showed to me. She said: "You always wanted to do something like that, why don't you go there?" I thought, if I give everything, then it will work. TV: That went parallel to your school and you got your Abitur with a terrific 1.3. (Abitur is the final degree of the highest of the 3 German schools. Without it you can not to the universities. 1.3 would be approx. A-) E: That doesn't get you anything. TV: But didn't you have the feeling: " I was so good in school, now I have to go to the university."? E: For heaven's sake no. My teachers always said "You are so intelligent, why don't you want to learn something acceptable?" But the thought never came to me. TV: You had the ambition: become an actress, become famous and a good Abitur. E: I really didn't want to become famous, I wanted to act. But I am very ambitious and disciplined. Even now, when I film, for example I don't go out in the evenings. I sit down, learn scripts or go to sleep early. so I am fit in the mornings. There are actors who sock it away the night before shooting.... But as long as one gives good performances, it actually doesn't matter what one does. TV: Private life has not a lot of space here. Did you sacrifice a lot of friends for your career? E: No, my 3 best girl friends experienced everything with me from the beginning. All the highs and lows. When I had in the mornings from 7 to 8 before school speech exercises in the basement and such. They only could more or less watch astonished what developed. TV: No envy? E: In the school yes. When you get excused from lessons, because you film, people don't like that at all. But that can't bother you, because envy is always there when you do something that raises you above the masses. I also skipped a school year. And in the new class they couldn't accept a younger one that also got good grades. I was always more of an outsider, more a brooder. TV: But in the beginning of your career don't you have to be in the public, hang around the important parties? E: No, you don't. When you get along with the people on the set, you don't have to start something with them beyond that. they should not take to me because I am beautiful, but because I fit the role and what i do with it. I am too proud to offer myself somewhere. TV: As a lawyers daughter from the middle-class Eppendorf you must have grown up sheltered. E: Yes, very. TV: Does that stand in the way when you play certain roles and think: "That is such a beaten person, I never had problems like that." or "I never had such worries."? E: An intact home is no guarantee that you don't experience hate or grief, or love sickness. On the other hand, the great thing of this profession is that you are allowed to show things that you usually not show, feelings like hate or desperation. That is freeing and feels really good. TV: Two years ago you were quoted with the sentence "I would moderate for the test picture, I love to stand out." E: Oh my God. Today I would rather say: "I like to stand apart."