The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.
What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
I got my first acting role because I was a singer.
Sure, I acted in films in the Third Reich, entertainment films, which distracted countless people inside and outside Germany from daily life during war.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
I'm doing a film called 'Black Mass' where I play James Bulger. The reason to play him is obvious to me. He's a fascinating character. It's not like anything I've done before on that level. I'm very excited to slide into that skin for a little bit.
I played Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz.' That was my first role on stage.
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.