Anke Engelke is pensive about some of her most famous roles. Although she is not outraged by herself, she is sad.
Anke Engelke (54) has also learned something new and reflects on her old roles in an interview with the magazine "Spiegel". The actress and comedian openly admits that she even regrets some of her most popular characters, such as Ricky with the Popsofa: "I wouldn’t let my make-up be dark anymore play, for example no more Asian women. " Although she is not outraged about herself today, she is sad that she did not see at the time that this was not okay.
Engelke also speaks openly about her once flopped talk show "Anke Late Night" from 2004. She felt bad at the time, everything seemed like a lie to her because she didn't play anyone in her role as a late night host: "It didn't come from me, but from authors – I didn't get that well packaged for myself. Because I wasn't there as an actress. I was there as Anke." She understood that too late.
New Netflix series from September 17th
In her next project, Engelke slips into the role of a funeral orator in the Netflix series "The Last Word" (available from September 17th) who has to digest a stroke of fate of her own. Engelke himself took a lot with him from the filming, as the miniseries only apparently deals with death: "I really had this realization that I can only change something in my life." That shouldn't seem artificially inflated, like an enlightenment and "also not banal like a line from a Helene Fischer song".
Above all, one thought remained for her: "That it is first and foremost about death when a person dies and is suddenly gone." The others would have to stay: "Shouldn't we have to take care of them above all? We can't change anything about death, only about life."