How much research did you do into the Mark Yarlovsky case, the 1979 matricide that inspired My Son, My Son…?
I did none…. I did absolutely none, to be totally honest. And the reason was that Werner didn’t want me to. There was somebody else who was going to do this role, and that person did a lot of research and read a lot of interviews and got very opinionated about how the movie should be, and Werner decided he didn’t want to work with him because he’d done too much research. He didn’t want whoever was playing the part to be imitating Mark. Which makes sense as it isn’t a true-crime story; it’s a Herzog film. Given the legendary stories about some actors’ experiences on Herzog sets, did you ever have any moments of trepidation? When Werner offered me this job, he told me up front that it was going to involve some travel, and that we’d be going to this city in northwestern China called Kashgar and that we’d be going there without a permit and that we’d be going there to film a scene. And he just wanted me to know up front that if I took the job that that was something I would have to do, a
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