Mr. Ofczarek, are you also a nuclear power plant in your private life, as your roles suggest? There are worse things than being confused with one’s roles. I’m used to it. When I was approached to play homicide detective Gedeon Winter in “The Passport” five years ago, I was surprised that the role was actually written and created for me, even though they didn’t know me personally. My wife had insisted that to come along to the very first meeting in the “Gmoakeller”, which is actually a bit unprofessional. We were both amazed at the image they had of me. I’m by no means as excessive and escalative as the directors had imagined.

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