All you have to do is get him started and he rolls out one story after another. At the Thursday afternoon Master Class with German actor Udo Kier, one of the traditional moderators at events in the KVIFF Talks series, Tomáš Baldýnský, wasn't needed at all.
The German actor, in Karlovy Vary to introduce his competition beekeeping avant-garde Zero in the section East of the West and The Forbidden Room in the section Imagina, fondly remembered Pamela Anderson, for example. "It was at a time when I couldn't get the slow-motion shots from Baywatch out of my head. You know them, don't you? The beach, a red swim suit and her breasts. So when I was offered a role in the film Barb Wire, of course I didn't hesitate. Then I visited her trailer and she let me touch," smiled Udo Kier and also recollected his daring photo shoot with Madonna, where he's drinking urine (in reality lemonade) from her shoes, or how he once kissed Elizabeth Taylor.
Perhaps even more fondly did he recall working with distinguished directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Lars von Trier. "In the mid-eighties I filmed one short that ran at the festival in Mannheim," Kier recalled. "They played us a few films as an introduction and I immediately fell in love with one of them, The Element of Crime. I went to the head of the festival and told him I wanted to meet the director. He arrived the next day. I expected some weirdo dressed in black, another Fassbinder. Instead this young Danish student appeared before me and introduced himself as Lars von Trier. We got on well and I asked him if he'd found a distributor for his film for Germany. He said no. So we went to the post office – there were no mobile phones in those days – and from a payphone I arranged for German distribution for him. Since then we've been friends."
