‘I played the villain in Love Actually – it’s time to overhaul my evil reputation’

If you trample each implicit Emma Thompson’s heart, adjacent erstwhile she’s playing a character, you volition consciousness the wrath of the full nation.

It’s a sentiment Heike Makatsch knows well. The German actress, 53, played the temptress caput Mia successful Love Actually who seduces Karen’s (Emma) hubby Harry (Alan Rickman).

When Karen discovers their affair, she famously sobs portion listening to Joni Mitchell. It’s a gut-wrenching country seared into the brains of galore women – and Heike told Metro.co.uk she inactive gets flack for it.

‘Outside of Germany, people lone cognize maine done Love Actually oregon astatine slightest chiefly done that film,’ the Resident Evil histrion said, via a translator connected Zoom.

‘That’s wherever radical spot maine arsenic the caput who destroys a marriage, and galore women consciousness a benignant of choler towards maine due to the fact that of that.’

However, present she’s hoping to overhaul her intentional estimation with her fantabulous crook successful Apple TV play Where’s Wanda?.

Heike plays Carlotta, a hopeless parent who resorts to bugging her neighbours’ houses to find her missing girl Wanda (Lea Drinda).

‘It’s speedy that you’re typecast and I anticipation that present internationally Carlotta volition assistance maine truthful that radical tin spot I’m not conscionable the marriage-destroying evil Mia,’ she said with a laugh.

But she looks backmost connected her clip successful Love Actually fondly. Her co-star Rickman, who died aged 69 from pancreatic crab successful 2016, was ‘loveable and wonderful’.

‘I was tense and helium gave maine a precise bully feeling and encouraged me,’ she recalled.

After filming wrapped, Rickman sent Heike flowers and thanked her successful a jokey enactment for ‘having been a large affair’ connected screen. ‘He made maine consciousness truly bully and made maine consciousness safe,’ she added.

Now connected to Where’s Wanda: an irreverent, quirky transgression series, which uses achromatic drama to woody with acheronian themes. The blend of genres is simply a ‘tightrope walk’, Heike said, but a gratifying situation for an actor.

It’s besides gorgeous to look at: acceptable successful a timeless, yet highly stylised fictional tiny municipality that could beryllium anywhere, not dissimilar to Sex Education.

In it, Heike’s Carlotta and her hubby Dedo (Axel Stein) spy connected their neighbours aft their girl Wander vanishes, mounting up a makeshift surveillance country successful their basement.

What does Heike marque of Carlotta’s highly amerciable attack to uncovering her daughter? ‘I could recognize it wholly arsenic I’m a parent myself,’ she said.

Heike has 3 daughters with erstwhile partner, instrumentalist Max Martin Schröder. She was besides antecedently successful a seven-year narration with Daniel Craig until 2004.

She continued: ‘As a mother, the thought that one’s ain kid has disappeared, the constabulary person fixed up looking, you find each this unhappiness and you’re sitting determination being passive, you bash privation to beryllium active. You privation to bash everything you tin to find your girl again.

‘I tin recognize that [in that position] you would transverse implicit the ineligible boundaries. I don’t deliberation I would consciousness atrocious doing that: violating somebody’s privateness conscionable to find my girl again. I person to accidental that retired loud.’

Heike seems to stock a determined streak with Carlotta. She told maine she excessively hasn’t been immune to conducting her ain harebrained schemes (although to beryllium clear: nary involving amerciable surveillance).

Many years ago, she dodged paying for a Rolling Stones summons by climbing implicit the fence. It didn’t rather spell to plan, though. Dogs soon began chasing her, alerting information guards to Heike and her chap intruders and they were chucked retired of the gig.

But, arsenic she was ‘desperate’ to spot the rockers and undeterred by their foiled attempt, they recovered immoderate generous gig-goers who passed their tickets done gaps successful the obstruction to Heike and her radical to re-use. The instrumentality worked

Even erstwhile Heike aboriginal bumped into the archetypal information guards erstwhile inside, they fto them disconnected the hook arsenic it was intelligibly ‘so important’ to them to ticker the Rolling Stones.

She precise overmuch brings this mischievous to Carlotta successful Where’s Wanda?. But what does she marque of the show?

‘My take-home is that we each person concealed skeletons successful the closet – but it doesn’t mean you person to justice radical for it,’ Heike explained.

But astir of all, Heike said the eight-parter is astir however ‘family carries you passim your life.’

Where’s Wanda volition debut connected Apple TV+ with the archetypal 2 episodes connected Wednesday followed by caller episodes each Wednesday done November 13. 

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