Hello, my name Justin McLuhan here today with...

I'm not great.

I'm epico.

I'm monumental.

I'm Will Sloan.

Wow, is that how you can introduce yourself now every time?

That's right.

And today we're talking about Klaus Kinski.

The bad boy of German cinema, the very bad boy, in fact.

Klaus Kinski was an awful person.

And in the kind of way that it's impossible to talk about without getting very serious.

Well, I mean, I remember, I think it came out in 2013 that his daughter, not Nastassia,

but his daughter, Pola Kinski, said that she was repeatedly raped and sexually abused by him

for decades. And I know that Nastassia said that she wasn't, but that she sensed lust in his eyes or

something. Kinski, in his autobiography, Kinski Uncut, or what was the original title?

All I Need is Love was what it was also called.

He alludes to sexually assaulting Natasha, and she actually...

She sued him, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because of that.

Well, when this information came out, it definitely, well, obviously it complicates your understanding of him. I feel like maybe even more so than usual, because he's somebody who's legend, in addition to the fact that he's about as charismatic as an actor has ever been, he's somebody whose legend is very much built on his off-screen excesses, the fact that he was this man of great

passions, this man who was constantly causing trouble on set, you know? And that kind of legend

is interlinked with Werner Herzog and their experience is making five movies together. And I think that, like, when you hear of how crazy he was on set and how wild he was,

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