4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Kristian Harloff sits down with the incredible Famke Janssen for an in-depth interview about her latest project, Amsterdam Empire, her time as Jean Grey in the X-Men films, and her experiences working on Taken and beyond. Famke opens up about her journey through Hollywood, how she approaches complex roles, and what it was like bringing such iconic characters to life. We also discuss her thoughts on the future of the X-Men reboot, behind-the-scenes stories from her filmography, and her work with Netflix.
If you're a fan of Famke Janssen, the X-Men, or just love hearing behind-the-scenes insight from some of the best in the business, you won't want to miss this one!
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I am very excited for my next guest. |
| 0:12.0 | I've been talking about it all week. |
| 0:14.6 | I've been a fan for such a long time. |
| 0:17.3 | And whether it was, heck, man, GoldenEye, Rounders, |
| 0:22.4 | going back to obviously the X-Men films, the faculty. |
| 0:26.7 | And now we have a brand new series on Netflix that you guys can check out. |
| 0:32.3 | And she is star of said show. |
| 0:34.9 | And that, of course, is Amsterdam Empire. |
| 0:36.5 | And I am joined by |
| 0:37.5 | Famka Jensen. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. It's nice to have you. |
| 0:42.8 | And like I said, I've been talking about it all the week because I had the opportunity to |
| 0:46.6 | see the show and and you talk about hell hath no fury. |
| 0:51.3 | Right? My goodness. I know. I mean, it's what we all in our dreams would like to do, |
| 0:56.6 | and then we wake up and all right. Let me just, no. Right. It's the consequences are just |
| 1:02.0 | great. Yeah. I mean, the show is pretty good. Look, I'm all for crime thrillers and |
| 1:07.2 | and an interesting twist, and that's what this show has because you put it in the fact, |
| 1:13.3 | Amsterdam in general. And for those people who have not been to Amsterdam, you have like this |
| 1:17.0 | idea of what it is. Like everything's legal over there. You can pretty much do whatever you want. |
| 1:21.8 | But and they play on that in the show, but they also play on the like the stuff that is intriguing |
| 1:27.3 | and then the stuff that is kind of is really dangerous. So what made you get involved with this show? And, you know, the fact that you're like, no, no, no, no, this speaks to me. I got to be a part of it. Yeah, they came to me. The showrunner, Nico Molinar, had written this with, and he apparently, the only person he wanted, you know, to play Betty was me. |
| 1:50.2 | And so I was very flattered by it. |
| 1:52.6 | And I read the script and I thought, oh, well, this is a powerhouse. |
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