Das Experiment - The Interview
AboutFilm: Obviously the movie suggests that we are all not too removed from our savage, animal selves. Is this something that you've felt in your life at any time? And if so, in what way?

Bleibtreu: For me�K I just think about jealousy. Just think about you having a girlfriend and another guy comes in and touches her, or even looks at her. It makes you sometimes be like an animal. It can be such a small thing that can make this animal, as you say, come out of you. So, yeah, I think in everyday situations people become crazy. Driving a car in Los Angeles, you find people that literally would kill somebody over a stop sign. So, it's just something that's deep inside our nature. Everybody wants to live, and everybody wants to survive. And you wanna keep your stuff! If anybody wants to take your stuff away or threatens your life, you want to defend yourself. And, if necessary, you're going to become an animal. If necessary, you might even be ready to kill�K

I don't know how I would react. This is one of those questions that is always being asked. How would you react, if in real life you were in this kind of situation? I always answer, "I don't know." People are very quick with the answer and say, "Oh, this could never happen to me! I would stay human, and I would never do this kind of stuff!" I think it's very arrogant and dumb. I always say, "You're the first one to react like that." Because you don't know. If somebody puts a gun to your head, you don't know what you're going to do. You just don't know. There are certain situations in life that you will never know what you are going to do unless and until you are in that situation.
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