Greta Gerwig, “to merge with mankind feels incredibly good at” – TIME ONLINE

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ZEIT ONLINE: play in Maggies plan a young woman who wants stretches out another man and give it back to her after a few years back. What attracted you to this Maggie and her plans?

Greta Gerwig: I like Maggie, because she has a certain purity of heart. She wears the deep yearning within to find their own truth and to live accordingly. She does not hesitate when she does something, and has a very healthy way, not to incriminate himself with guilt. There are in our lives often situations where one actually knows exactly what to do, but by the claims and representations made by another can dissuade. Maggie has a very direct access to themselves – even if they make mistakes. This is a very good property.

Greta Gerwig

Greta Gerwig

After Philosphie- and Learning English in New York Greta Gerwig starred in films of mumblecore movement and was hailed as a new Indie Queen. A wider audience, it was known by Greenberg by Noah Baumbach, with whom she as a screenwriter and actress later Frances Ha and finally Mistress America realized. For Woody Allen starred in To Rome With Love . She is currently with Todd Solondz ‘ Wiener Dog and Rebecca Miller Maggies plan to see twice in the German cinemas.

To the film “Maggie’s plan”

Rebecca Miller’s Maggies plan designs in the best screwball tradition a dysfunctional love triangle in the New York academics milieu. Maggie (Greta Gerwig) falls in love with the teachers and wannabe novelist John (Ethan Hawke), whose career and self-esteem of university success his wife Georgette (Julianne Moore) is clearly overshadowed. A few years and a divorce process later John and Maggie live with her daughter and the children from his first marriage are often to visit. When Maggie maternal and step-motherly double burden and also the egocentric nature of her partner are too much, it tries to pair John again with his ex-wife.

ZEIT ONLINE: In your film characters seem to always put a lot of yourself. Are you often confused with your characters?

Gerwig: spectacles for me is a very slow process of approaching a figure. The director Rebecca Miller, I have worked for almost a year on the development of Maggie. We started thinking about who she is, what she thinks, what they are interested in how she dresses, how she speaks – when I step in front of the camera, my being has mixed with the FIG. After each film fans come up to me and say: “There’s a lot inside of you.” Then I always think, “I can not but be all these people.” But actually I think it’s good if you recognize me in my roles. It makes me proud, also because the fiction of the film feels less fictitiously through this personal relationship.

“When I walk through New York, I often see scenes before me”

ZEIT ONLINE: Maggie is in its own way quite a control freak. Heard that too at your weaknesses?

Gerwig: No. I know that you can not control everything. I make sure that I have the things that are important to me in life, have under control, but everything else I let it happen. To me it does not matter how far my seat has been removed from the aircraft emergency exit. I’ve never changed a hotel room, because it did not like. And basically it’s me no matter what I wear. But if I wrote a screenplay and work begins on the set, I make very sure that everything comes across, as I have conceived me. In these moments, I’m a real control freak.

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ZEIT ONLINE: In almost all your films you have realized as an actress or director, makes New York the second lead role and your figures appear to be adherent to the city. Why is New York for you such a fertile, creative ground?

Gerwig: New York is a very cinegene city. I did not grow up there and have the city initially met only on the cinema. Especially through the films of Woody Allen. When I go into my everyday life through New York, I often see scenes before me. But I think in any case permanently to movies. Sometimes it is a bit strange if you look likely during any funny conversation, if you could use the well in the next film. It feels as if you can not live the real life. However, my next film I turn not in New York, but in Northern California, where I grew up. It has its charm, return to the place from which you come and which one still feels connected mysteriously.