Vicky Krieps: ‘I was completely lost after Phantom Thread – it was like surviving a shipwreck’
msn.comVicky Krieps says, a bottle of Evian in her hand, her hair hidden beneath a pink baseball cap and a brown shawl wrapped theatrically around her neck. “It was like being dropped out of an airplane onto a different planet, or surviving a shipwreck. ” The Luxembourg-born actor is describing her life in the aftermath of Phantom Thread, the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film that put her toe-to-toe with Daniel Day-Lewis, as the waitress who becomes muse and lover to his society dressmaker.
It made her a star, but it took her two years to recover. “I slowly found my way,” she continues. “How I could live with this job being the person I am.
Because I am not [a] public person. It’s a weird thing when you don’t want to be seen, yet you become an actor. ” She cracks a sad smile.
Krieps speaks so softly that her voice is practically a whisper. Her accent – clipped, airy, very European – adds to the effect.
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