Even at the age of 42, the successful actor Daniel Brühl has not yet finished learning. His wife Felicitas made this clear to him.
Daniel Brühl (42) has long since celebrated his international breakthrough as an actor – films such as "Rush – Alles für den Sieg", "The First Avenger: Civil War" and "Inglourious Basterds" are evidence of this. But that doesn't mean that the star doesn't still have to work hard on himself, as he has now revealed in an interview with "ZEITmagazin MANN". He can get the best advice from his wife Felicitas, with whom he has been married since 2016. Because she is a psychologist and "taught him to live more in the present," says Brühl.
This was urgently necessary because Brühl describes himself as "nervous and restless" and has also got used to reporting to his wife over and over again about his work. Then "at some point she started telling what kind of patients she had talked to during the day and what. I quickly understood: that is sometimes more interesting." Gradually, he was able to "not brood over the past so much. That's a big topic for me: I would have, would have if. I sometimes get into mental loops that do not help."
The eternal competitors
Brühl also spoke to "ZEITmagazin MANN" about his worst national and international roller competitors. In Germany, he runs into his good friend August Diehl (44) at castings at regular intervals, who has often just applied for the same role. "But mostly we knew that one or the other would be better in the role," said Brühl.
On the international stage, however, he says he has had to compete with a 41-year-old Scot several times. "How many times have I heard the name James McAvoy! I couldn't hear him anymore." But that too is a thing of the past. In the present, which Brühl prefers to deal with thanks to his wife, "I have a kind of special status, if a European is wanted or, more specifically, a German, then I have a good chance."