“Diligence, discipline, honesty” are the key words for the actor Jonathan Berlin.
And also an obligation not to betray his characters - like uncle, the young person who plays in Friedemann Fromm's Oliver Storz film adaptation "The Outdoor Pool Clique" and who opposes the Nazis as best he can.
The 26-year-old, who grew up in a very liberal Swabian pastor's household, has something puck-like about him, something fragile, airy.
Berlin, which actually has the same name as the city in which he has lived for four years, has a gift of appearing out of nowhere and then not just being there, but being present.
It's like that in films.
It's the same off-set.
Participating in the movement that hit the public debate like a baseball bat a few weeks ago was, he said, almost an act of "self-love" for him.
185 homosexual, bisexual, transgender, non-binary actors came out under the hashtag #actout in the magazine of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.