Vicky Krieps Talks About The Physical Pain Of Getting Into Character For ‘Corsage’ – Contenders International

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Vicky Krieps says she suffered physically for her art on the shoot of Austrian director Marie\ Kreutzer’s Corsage, revisiting the life of the legendary 19th century Empress Elisabeth of Austria with a contemporary, emancipated eye.

The Luxembourgish actress, who was a driving force behind the film and takes an executive producer credit, is no stranger to period dramas, having appeared in such films as Phantom Thread and The Young Karl Marx. RELATED: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage However, for Corsage she took sartorial authenticity to the limit by wearing the same type of tightly laced corset that would have been worn by the empress, for the entirety of the shoot. “I thought this poor woman suffered from it and I’m making a movie that wants to talk about women at that time and how they were restricted by something like a corset, which is also symbolic for everything else that was restricting them,” Krieps told a panel at Deadline’s Contenders International event. “What I didn’t know was that they were wearing it as a sort of representation, and she was probably only waking up in her bed at midday,” she added. “We were starting at 5 a.m.

and staying on set until late at night. It was really breaking me. I would cry sometimes because I knew what lay ahead of me.

It was tough.” The suffering paid off, with Krieps winning Best Performance in Un Certain Regard at Cannes in May. RELATED: Cannes Review: Vicky Krieps In ‘Corsage’ The film has since been warmly received at a slew of festivals including London — where it won Best Film — New York, San Sebastian, Sarajevo and Chicago and is due to open in the U.S.