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At 80, Udo Kier — Who’s Starred in Everything From Andy Warhol’s Films to ‘Ace Ventura’ — Looks Back on a Lifetime of Cult Encounters
At 80, Udo Kier — who's starred in everthing from Andy Warhol's films to 'Ace Ventura' — looks back on a lifetime of cult encounters.
Anytime I’m in town, I check in on Kier, who still works regularly — most recently in Brazil, where “Bacurau” director Kleber Mendonça Filho created a role for him in “The Secret Agent.” This year, he traveled to Syria to shoot “OD,” an interactive horror hybrid co-written by Jordan Peele and video game legend Hideo Kojima. On the day of Kier’s 80th, I drive out to the desert to talk to him about his career — namely, how he parlayed roles in early Eurotrash movies (films like “Spermula” and “Doctor Jekyll and His Women” that pushed the envelope on sex and gore) into such a sui generis body of work. Kier actually flew “home” twice last month: to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Cologne Film Festival and for the opening of a career-spanning exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, featuring props, posters and even the sherbert-green costume he wore in “Swan Song.”
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