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‘Corsage’ Star Vicky Krieps on Playing a ‘Princess Imprisoned in the Image of Being a Woman’ (Video)

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Krieps and director Maria Kreutzer stopped by TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival to talk about “Corsage,” which follows the Empress (Krieps) on her 40th birthday, an age that, according to 19th century Bavarian society, made her an old woman.

Feeling increasingly isolated by both royal circles and her own husband, Emperor Franz Joseph (Florian Teichtmeister), Elisabeth finds herself imprisoned by her own elite status and starts looking for any way to rebel against it, no matter how small.

Krieps said that growing up, she felt free to do whatever she wished and admired her mother for raising her to value that independence.

But when reading a biography of Empress Elisabeth — or Sissi, as she is affectionately known in Austria — as a teenager, she empathized with her in a way she couldn’t understand at the time.

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