Lars Eidinger: That’s how he thinks about Kai Korthals

Lars Eidinger
This is how he thinks of Kai Korthals

For the third time, the actor Lars Eidinger (45) slipped into his star role of the scary serial killer Kai Korthals. In an interview on “Borowski and the good person”, Eidinger revealed that he did not expect a renewed engagement. “I had an inkling that Kai Korthals could be an exciting figure, but who would have thought that he would be the first murderer in the” Tatort “story to be allowed to return twice,” said Eidinger.

What he likes about the figure is that the focus is on someone who shies away from the public, who barely stands up to the gaze of the other person and who stutters with excitement in direct confrontation: “It is something like a dissecting table, like this person under the microscope is taken.” A sensational idea of ​​the author Sascha Arango is that Korthals use the toothbrushes of others, because it speaks to “our primal fears”.

This is how Lars Eidinger influenced the film

Eidinger himself had definitely influenced the design of the story and the character. Director Ilker Catak, Arango and he sat down six months before shooting started to go through the script. “They were very open and grateful for suggestions and ideas on my part,” said Eidinger. Among other things, it was his suggestion to quote from “The Robbers” by Friedrich Schiller. He also suggested Sabine Timoteo (46) for the role of Teresa.

The scene in which Korthals was talking to Axel Milberg (65) in his apartment was partly improvised. “The idea of ​​putting on Borowski’s corduroy suit while sniffing around in his apartment actually only came to us when we were doing it,” says Eidinger. In his game he relies “on the direct encounter, the playful moment”. In his opinion, colleagues like Milberg or Timoteo are a real stroke of luck for this.

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