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\tThe Oscar-nominated German actress Sandra H\u00fcller<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was the guest for a special episode of The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u2019s Awards Chatter<\/em> podcast that was recorded last Friday at the Cannes Film Festival in front of an audience in the Campari Lounge within the Palais. Best known for 2016\u2019s Toni Erdmann<\/a><\/em> and 2023\u2019s Anatomy of a Fall<\/a><\/em> and The Zone of Interest<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0all of which premiered in Cannes, the 48-year-old was back on the Croisette in the midst of a year unlike any other.<\/p>\n

\tIndeed, H\u00fcller has given three<\/em> major performances in 2026. In February, she won Berlin\u2019s lead acting award for her portrayal of a 17th-century woman passing as a man in Markus Schleinzer\u2019s Rose<\/a><\/em>. March brought the blockbuster Project Hail Mary<\/a><\/em>, a sci-fi dramedy in which she goes toe-to-toe with Ryan Gosling as the world hangs in the balance. And she is now garnering raves in Cannes for her turn as German writer Thomas Mann\u2019s daughter, Erika, in Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s competition film Fatherland<\/a><\/em>. \t<\/p>\n

\tOh, and she has yet another big project still to come in the fall: Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s Digger<\/a><\/em>, a $125 million satirical black comedy in which she stars opposite one Tom Cruise. \u201cI am nearly bursting wanting to talk about this movie,\u201d she said, \u201cBut I can\u2019t. I legally can\u2019t. I can<\/em> say that I saw a version that\u2019s maybe not the final version, and that it impresses me beyond anything I\u2019ve ever seen. I think it\u2019s going to be a remarkable film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tOver the course of the conversation, which you can hear in its entirety via the audio player above or any major podcast app, H\u00fcller marveled at the fact that she is in films at all. She started acting in her teens after a teacher encouraged her to join a drama club, and only ever dreamed of working on the stage. But her acclaimed theater work led to her big-screen debut 20 years ago in Requiem<\/em>, playing a woman whose epileptic seizures convince her family she has been possessed, and she won Berlin\u2019s best actress prize, after which there was no turning back. \u201cI consider myself a theater actress still,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt\u2019s just a coincidence that I\u2019ve somehow got into film.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tRequiem<\/em> and, a decade later, Toni Erdmann<\/em>, grew H\u00fcller\u2019s profile. But she didn\u2019t become an internationally known star until the double-header of Anatomy of a Fall<\/em> and The Zone of Interest<\/em>, which, in the same year, won Cannes\u2019 first-place and second-place prizes, respectively, and both went on to best picture Oscar nominations, the first time two non-English-language films landed in the top category in the same year. For her part, H\u00fcller became the first person to receive two noms in the same year for the best actress European Film Award, and BAFTA noms for best actress and best supporting actress. She also became, for Anatomy<\/em>, the first German best actress Oscar nominee since Luise Rainer in 1938.<\/p>\n

\tDuring this recording, H\u00fcller shared that she had not known what sort of role she was being asked to play when she first met on The Zone of Interest<\/em>, and had to think long and hard before deciding to break her longstanding rule of not playing Nazis. She explained how she approached Anatomy of a Fall<\/em>, as far as the innocence or guilt of her character. She talked about covering hit songs a decade apart in Toni Erdmann<\/em> (Whitney Houston\u2019s \u201cGreatest Love of All\u201d) and Project Hail Mary<\/em> (Harry Styles\u2019 \u201cSign of the Times\u201d), and the importance of those scenes to the films in which they are featured. And she said of Fatherland<\/em>, \u201cI think I learned the most, of every film, on this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t \t\t\t\t\tScott Feinberg and Sandra Huller at THR x Campari \u2013 Awards Chatter Live<\/a> with Sandra H\u00fcller during the 79th Cannes Film Festival held at Campari Lounge in the Palais de Festivals on May 15, 2026, in Cannes, France. <\/span> \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarl Gibson III\/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images<\/cite> \t\t\t\t\t \t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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