Nicki: Actors are too difficult. I stick to older businessman types. They say what they want and know how to get it.
Nicki: As far as the emotions, it was very difficult to keep it at a high level.
Nicki: If you do television you know you are going to go fast, everything fast. With film you are able to slow it down a little.
Nicki: I think that it was important to have all these dimensional characters, that had actual tension.
Nicki: I think it was important that she does maintain off and on her own and a little bit separate, so that’s why my character always seems a little bit blank.
Nicki: I was able to work alone and with Victor [Salva]. He spent individual time with everybody. We created a lot of the character together. He had a really great framework for the character and he let everybody, not just me, fill in the blanks.
Nicki: I stayed for seven or eight months in Munich.
Nicki: I thought that my character was a little removed from everybody else, because they didn’t believe what she was saying
Nicki: The day we shot the scene where I cry was also the day of the contact lenses and it was thirteen hours. Thirteen hours of me crying and, once I got to that level I knew I had to hold it, because once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Nicki: I do have a horror story about a bus. I was traveling in Peru and it was New Years Eve - no excuse me, it was New Years Day - and I had been out all night and my friend and I got on the bus. We get on the bus, and it’s now New Years Day, and we’re about to be on a bus together for eight hours. My friend turns to me and says, “What do you and the bus driver have in common?” “I don’t know,” I said. “He’s Peruvian, I’m American. I’m not really sure, he’s a big guy…” And my friend says, “You both have confetti in your hair.” So, he had been up all night too! (Big laughter) Well, lo and behold, I have the one seat on the bus where the seat in front of me is broken, so I have a three hundred pound Peruvian man in my lap for eight hours.
Nicki: The film has racial tension, even a gay character, something to give to the audience to root for.
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