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Ready for the big stage: Matthias Schweighöfer shows his dance skills with Jimmy Fallon
Matthias Schweighöfer demonstrated his dance skills with Jimmy Fallon.
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He is well on the way to becoming a star in the USA: Matthias Schweighöfer receives good reviews for his Netflix film “Army of Thieves”. As a guest at Jimmy Fallon, he also shows talent beyond the camera.
He is considered the “New Kid” in Town. As the next great talent in Hollywood. The international production “Army of Thieves” starts today on Netflix. And Matthias Schweighöfer not only plays the main role, but also directed it.
The previous evening, the German film artist was in Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show”. invited. At first he had problems pronouncing the name of his guest correctly. Americans generally do not know umlauts – and the combination “ghö” seems unpronounceable. He was half-German, as Fallon confessed. His grandmother immigrated from Bremen as a baby.
Then the moderator confronted Schweighöfer with a quote that he once coined about himself: “They call me Justin Timberlake of Germany”. Fallon wanted to know what this was all about. Schweighöfer tried to save the situation, but he was also a “shy dancer”, a shy dancer. The American couldn’t imagine anything like that, and so the German had to demonstrate his qualities on the floor to the cheering of the audience.
Moderator Fallon came out as a fan of the romantic rogue comedy “Army of Thieves” and said Schweighöfer was exploding in America. As evidence, he read reviews comparing the director to Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese.
Matthias Schweighöfer was impressed by “ET”
Schweighöfer himself stated that he was most pleased that he was described as “funny” by the critics – not a matter of course for a German.
That means a lot to him, continues Schweighöfer, because he grew up with US comedy. The actor was born in 1981 in Anklam, East Germany. When the wall came down in 1989, American films and series also conquered the eastern part of the country. “The Prince of Bel-Air” was one of the first series he watched.
He was also very impressed by Steven Spielberg’s “ET”. His first thought was: “In America it is possible to talk to aliens.” That had a major impact on his career: “Then I started dreaming big myself – and here we are.”
How his way in Hollywood still leads remains to be seen. But at least Matthias Schweighöfer has already made it into the “Tonight Show”.
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