Gene Wilder
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Podcast Appearances
He was a great actor.
He was a great actor.
Well, how did you figure out how to play Frau BrĂŒcher?
I had a wonderful hairdo by Mary, the head of the hair department, and a 20th and a wonderful costume.
They made it fit me perfectly, and it was wonderfully designed.
And that's all I knew, and I was made up.
Now I go on the set, and I don't have any idea how to be Frau BrĂŒcher or have any German accent.
I'd never done one before.
So all the time when they were shooting, I kept saying, Do you know a German accent?
And about three people there thought they maybe they didn't know for sure they tried.
And I think one of them was Melbrook's mother.
I think she helped me the most.
I don't know anything.
When I first came out the door and I say, I am Frau Blocher.
And I think it said with such measurement, I was so careful to try to do it right.