‘I struggle to see myself as someone special’: Sandra Hüller on being the star of four - or, possibly, five - of the year’s biggest films

New film Fatherland took Sandra Hüller back to a divided Germany. She talks about damaged dreams, Hollywood feelgood and - just maybe - appearing in the new Marvel movie Sandra Hüller is crying, and it feels very strange. A wildly gifted actor, she can convey every human emotion

New film Fatherland took Sandra Hüller back to a divided Germany. She talks about damaged dreams, Hollywood feelgood and - just maybe - appearing in the new Marvel movie Sandra Hüller is crying, and it feels very strange. A wildly gifted actor, she can convey every human emotion there is.

On screen, though, she is most often asked to embody deep self-possession. Even doing karaoke, Hüller is in control. And in real life, life is good.

Her 2026 will end with four high-profile movies this year alone. Two (Fatherland and Rose) are black-and-white arthouse films that centre on her brilliance, and though one of the others (Digger) is already a Hollywood cautionary tale, a second (Project Hail Mary) was a giant $684m hit. (There may also be a fifth movie, bigger still.

We will come back to that.) And yet, dressed in film star black, she is in tears. “This is really hard for me,” she says. Continue reading...