How do you think Black Book compares with Pauls classic film Soldier Of Orange?
I saw Soldier Of Orange a long time ago. When I got the part I did not want to go back into all that. I wanted to start as a new project. People were talking a`bout it but I said we were making a completely different movie. Of course I see the same sort of style and Soldier Of Orange is more heroic than this. What is the message in Black Book for today’s audience? There are a lot of messages in this movie, which I like very much. For me personally, the message for people to deal with on a daily basis is the fact that we like to divide the world into black and white but it appears not to be like that. That is hard to understand because we like to put things in slots but that’s not how we should do it. Of course the message at the end of the movie is almost a religious thing…a cry for peace from Paul. If I hit you then you hit me back but somebody has to stop and forgive the other one. Otherwise it will never ever end. That is what I like about the movie is that my character, who is th
