It’s not every day that you have a chat with a princess about spitting. Sunnyi Melles sits on the edge of a sofa in a luxury hotel in Hamburg, keeps adjusting her rather short black dress and actually just wants to talk about her new film, how fulfilling the work was with the Swedish director Ruben Östlund: “I felt like rebaptized.”
But the conversation with the Swiss actress almost inevitably always comes back to a scene about spitting. With her porcelain-colored skin, the blond cloud on her head and the fine facial features, Melles not only looks aristocratic, she is also a Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn by marriage in real life.
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