Id imagine they gave him an ambien or something beforehand or they gave him someone to yell at in the dressing room before going out. I think Klaus is just the type of guy who wants to be in control of everything and the anger is from situations, environment, to people where if there is something out of place or not to his liking then hes just going to rage at it until it changes or his brain gets overloaded and he has to switch to another emotion.

he was manic @@krel3358

Kinski r-worded his daughter natasha and gave her to roman Polanski too think about that

It´s like watching a ticking timebomb without knowing the time

you see how that idiot good behave abroad but not in Germany.

AJ Indie I as naturalised German proudly confirm! 🙋🏾 when I saw the thumbnail I thought right away "OMG". To give the context: Kinski had a liking for threatening ppl to punch their faces especially interviewer's faces no matter how famous. And yet he was shockingly normal probably due to top cocaine

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Nono, the difference's made by simple means of respect. He was treated correctly, so why would he have to defend himself? Simple as that.

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313, agree. Right amount of the right drug (what ever) at the right time.

@@rsvsbg1608 I have to disagree. He knew his general hissie fits would not fly on Letterman.

Yup

lol :D

Genious acting

Well said!

It’s widely reported that he was into Caprophagy, Autosarcophagy, and Necrophillia, I once heard a story from a sound technician from CrawlSpace that he got famously drunk put his underwear on backwards cut out a hole in them and ran around the set with his giant ball sack hanging out which he glued a pair of Googly Eyes too. I don’t know where the myths begin and the facts end but there’s seriously some strange shit afoot with this guy! He’s widely considered the Charles Manson of cinema!!

@@ice9557 that is vile if its true kinski was clearly a psycopath

your what?

@@mrtoothless What?

Own the edit, turd@@cqtaylor

Hahaha genius 👌

😆

protamine4 How do you know?

lol

Jav Ag ......yes he is 👍

'merica will do that to you

He was really mad ! :-)

...true...

Valium?Prozac?Elephant tranquilizer dart?

All of the Above.

Absolutely. I felt there was a dangerous point, like the Cuba crisis, when the host asked for his daugther, one could feel the vulcano rumbling deep inside. But the host didn't push any of his numerous red buttons and turned the talk back to great humour and let Kinksi steer the boat. In Germany, there was hardly an interview in which someones pushed his buttons, and he insulted someone. but Letterman handled him perfeclty.

Very typical for narcisist. Letterman was already then a very important person. Kinski was only nasty to people who were "below" him.

fascinating, horrifying

Even a mention of Herzog didn't get him angry. Lol.

Ao contrário da vida real que só gritava com as filhas. Era um estuprador das suas filhas.

even the joker whould think klaus is total nutz.

Omg you could be so right

Nah, Kinski is an egomaniac who loves to hear himself talk.

Benedikt Mohr why

Jet Black True, Thats why he would be the Perfect Joker

Nicely put!

no way

11Kralle No, Lee Van Cleef took him out.

brilliant comment right at the point!

He’d hypnotize Chuck Norris to do it.

He just wanted to be Big in america. Only reason he is nice here.

No Alex is right. Also the fact that Letterman is smart enough to know how to handle Kinski

I think the reason it is more bypolar disorder and that Letterman had the luck of find him in a calmer mood

The german media for Kinsky is like parents who love their child no matter what. They will always invite him again. So he acts out like a child. I think he just knows that Letterman is another level and that they don't need him there. Or maybe he just took something nice and feels peculiar fluffy.

i would say he feels safe in the situation because he knows he won´t be provoked by Letterman. he was just an authentic guy that divided him from 99% of other celebrities.

yessss!!!!

You have to look ‚je später der Abend‘ mit kinski

his english isnt sufficuent enough to rant

It’s widely reported that he was into Caprophagy, Autosarcophagy, and Necrophillia, I once heard a story from a sound technician from CrawlSpace that he got famously drunk put his underwear on backwards cut out a hole in them and ran around the set with his giant ball sack hanging out which he glued a pair of Googly Eyes too. I don’t know where the myths begin and the facts end but there’s seriously some strange shit afoot with this guy! He’s widely considered the Charles Manson of cinema!!

​@@justin-lb5uv sufficient

Well, hard to believe for rednecks, but there are such interviews from Germany and France... 😀😀😀

Klaus had them all beat.... in competition for the lunatic trophy....

He's the gg allin of the acting world

@@Tha3rdworldghost In all honesty. I think Kinski might have even had the capacity to freak out GG Allin.

Mickay Rourke would have eaten him for breakfast. Easily. Within a few seconds.

@@wolfganghasenmaier8350are you on meth?

Some of his costars in some movies have also said that he had a warmer side. It was just that he would go from warm and nice, to angry and insane in a second. The dude was literally a psychopath. He was diagnosed and all. The reason he got so many jobs was just because he was so immensely talented. He did a lot of bad and terrible things, but in a way it was kinda not his fault. He need psychicatric help. He should really not played in any movie. I am sure that all the stress that comes with being a movie star doesn't help with you mental health

. a pleasant man . . . .

@@haanis5458the fact that he r**** his daughter for 14 years since she was 5 was not his fault?

grafikdrummer exactly what i thought

no there is a french interview in which he acts like his "normal" angry self

No, he was a raging lunatic in the Amazon jungle.

@@saladvolcano3103 sure, the maniac is the normal one and germans are weird.

@JohnACorp782 put anyone next to kinski. the person who's not kinski is the normal one.

"In ten minutes, you'll be smokin' in hell."

"well, well, well, if it isn't the smoker?"

Masterpiece, not a word spoken during the entire scene, just silence and suspense.

Yes, absolute marvelous - and several camera shots of Eastwood's expression throughout the scene says it all.

Is quivering lip 😆😆😆

When i heard the word "peculiar" I thought he would go apeshit again.

ricarleite lol. Me too

kinski used the word during a 1971 interview.

It's not that he didn't know the meaning of the word 'peculiar', he just didn't know what David meant by saying 'pecauliar' in reference to some his roles.

he looks so humble, probably drugged down

Dizzy Blu lol true it immediately reminded me of that scene

Peculiar how? 😃

@@carrrexx7190 Just... ya know... you're peculiar...just how you tell the story.

Lol exactly :D

"peculiar" always reminds me of this scene from a 1975 film kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLGerZCKsry7p30.html

ik he is such a basket case.

@@fabienh3943 She has zero proof to back up her claims. She spent through all the money that her father left her and then right before a book of her comes out she tells the story. What a fluke !

It's the skill and experience and degree of professionalism of letterman why he stays calm. Usually Kinsky seeks in any interview in any country for a reason so that he can burst out in anger but letterman is too much of a professional. He has Kinsky under control and uses the respect that Kinsky has for him and the love he has for Dave to steer the situation to another place when he feels that his guest could start to build up and acumulate qantagonisms and agressions. Dave simply has total control. He's always conscious that mutual respect and courteousy is the basis that prevents that he loses control.

@@245-TRIOXINHe's crazy, narcissistic as hell, although, as others have mentioned, oddly charming when he wants to be. I believe the girls.

@@PornobrillenAli What proof do you want to see? Soiled undergarments? Semen stains on bedsheets?

@@VambeefcoHorzey Proof that meets the standarts to be used in court. Accusations don't mean anything !

True that

true words.

That's the way Letterman has always done his interviews.... and that's why some celebrities hated him (Madonna, Paris Hilton, etc) because his people would perhaps go through some questions and when they actually came to the show he would ask them whatever he wanted... Paris Hilton about her time in jail, which was actually kind of funny but also a little bit cruel... she said she would never come back... he apologized... and she did return.

@@pashadyne Why do you say that?

@@pashadyne I understand your feelings, it is getting worse all the time!

@Telios Abraxas He surrendered pretty quick in 1944

Stupid

He is so normal in that interview completely different to his other interviews

The other way round. He always made a show when throwing a tantrum as soon as cameras rolled just to be normal Again in seconds afterwards.

do you love him even knowing what he did to his daughter?

@@Synthpoptroubadour That was the best bit!

Herzog has a story about how important coffee was to Kinski . Males him froth at the mouth if its not how he likes it

​@@MultiLilililililiI was actually nervous about what might happen if he took a sip.

Me too

He was the best actor ever playing himself

max giermann is very close though :D

... who raped is daughter.

How dare you insult Mr. Kinski by calling him "gifted". He alone was responsible for his every spectacular moment on screen!

And the rapist of his own daughter :^)

And he didnt even drank it ; )

Lul why he didnt argue and shout?

Kaffee mit milch...wo ist mein milch und sugur!

@70sNEON klaus verstandt mein Deutschen Worden!

@@johnrogan9420 das ist kein Deutsch, das ist Pennsylfaanisch Deitsch

What's up with his reptile tongue...

@@LarryFleetwood8675 He had a dry mouth, you can see this in almost every interview

@@TheBourbonStreet I guess so, or maybe it was because of cocaine use(?) or something.

@@LarryFleetwood8675 Who knows... who cares, the man is dead. May he Rest In Peace...

​@@LarryFleetwood8675 he used that on his own daughter and Germans and Hollywood thought it was adorable

Love/hate relationship, they wanted to kill each other, but also needed to work together, watch the doco My best friend about their 'friendship'.

@@dfjtobin Saw where they lived in the same rooming house in 1953 Berlin maybe and Herzog said Kinski didn't come out of the communal bathroom for 2 days and when he did everything was broken. Herzog was 13 at the time.

And his acting in 'Nosferatu' as the Vampire is the greatest ever - bar none !

You meant by acting the same way he is.

He was born to play this role.

@@Account.for.Comment With the exception of Sir Alec Guinness, the greatest actor in my opinion, the character and personality of every actor is reflected in his acting, as it is also in any other form of art.

@@HartmutJagerArt In short, I agree with you. Read books by actors, watch acting lessons and was part of a casting team. Here what they emphasized: Truth is Essential. The written characters are sketches, in which the actors colored with their own experiences and reactions by instincts. The more the actor resemble the character, the more easy and believable his acting is. I loved Aguirre but I would say Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lamb and Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad deserved more praise, acting wise, because they either managed to completely changed their characteristics, or managed to portray the whole range of that character. Kinski in Aguirre is a cheat code in a video game. The lunatic is fantastic because he acted in his truest self.

Maybe he had some great sex earlier....

colderbeer best ask his daughter....

Yes!!!!

Jennifer Harrison, Are you serious? Sick bastard.. I knew he was nuts, but that is something else. And not in a good way of course.

He was a massive nonce.

Every european actor knows the US is a delicate place with full of money. You have to follow the rules or you are out. Funny because they are so proud to have freedom meanwhile in Europe you can not do one thing, one thing only but every other thing you free to do, some people will drop you but the industry will not. That one thing is criticizing a certain country or questioning a certain event.

@@Zodroo_Tint What country/event?

@@jareknowak8712Germany and the holocaust.

Also, his daughter Nastassja would have been filming Paris Texas at that time. I don’t know anything about their relationship, but I imagine he wouldn’t want to embarrass her, steal her limelight or sabotage her career by acting stupid.

@@andrewmacleod4218 Yeah I really doubt he was concerned about that at all.

Many years ago I asked my father what the difference is between Leno and Letterman...he explained to me he thought Dave's humor was better received by more intelligent people and Jay was more slapstick humor. You're comment reminded me of that conversation many years back. Cheers!

@@seinfeld8812 who you think I meant? :-)

@@flatisland it's just showing how unfamiliar americans are with the real kinski

:-) ... therefore a recommendable read: the Wiki article about him, especially the paragraph "mental illness"

Ha. So true .

When you can learn to be like that and have such a confidence that you simply don't care what people think of you; as long as you're not harming anyone or being offensive and causing trouble, i think you are truly free and are "alive". That and just pushing yourself to reach your full potential.

I disagree…Kinski was hyper fixated on what people thought of him, this is no secret…he always gave a shit about what people thought or at least fixated on people thinking about him in the same light he thought of himself, he was easily offended, delusional and self obsessed which is why he such a fascinating character.

He also is in every movie the same: Klaus Kinski

@@gunnarb.7094 ...what are the first things kids are learning to say in a foreign language, traditionally? 😄 Exactly 😄

@@flonkplonk1649 I read that in a German accent btw

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

@@daustmann I don't think for a second he was on cocaine. That guy on cocaine wouldn't be able to sit down, let alone talk quietly.

@@Paul47Tat yeah, but more a sign for mental issues.

totally right 😂 fly me to the moooon 👍😁

Reptile.

Self preservation. Giving kinski the chance to talk himself into a rage turns nasty

And to do it so affably!

Indeed. The audience did the rest, with perfect timing.

If Kinski wanted to take control, he would have done it. There are several interviews in german, where he is just as calm and expresses thought of him about life. He wasn't a constant raging lunatic who always wants to take control.

You should see the interview with his daughter

Dave was really connected and interested

What's so skillful about this?

@@eirikmoltu553 🙄🙄🙄

And herzog for extracting his talent in so many films

A video of a child molester.

Many thanks from his daughter lol

Klaus also raped and abused his own daughter for most of her childhood/teenage life...

Kinski was a great actor, but a horrible person as well.

Dave Letterman is the best interviewer ever.

​@@bal_masqueSome of the world's greatest artist are also the world's greatest scum. Its important to separate the art from the artist.

I totally noticed that too. Makes me wonder how exaggerated his reputation might be.

Too true Chris, an easy effusive smile is a "psycho's" best weapon/defence. Kinski was a truly great actor and a deeply flawed human being. Herzog had the measure of him & their collaborations are amongst the greatest in cinema history.

Michael Cocaine that’s a good one. He is famous for his meltdowns on live tv in Germany. But he was a great actor anyway. They are talking about the movie Fitzcarraldo. Jason Robarts competed with him for the main role, but Kinski outplayed him with ease.

Polen

Koks Kinski

Oh another German basher..😂😂

+Chris Bauer Klaus Kinski, "unacceptable."

literally any other interview is exactly that lmao

This quote made me laugh very hard. I gotta read that book.

Lemongrab 😂😂😂😂

It’s widely reported that he was into Caprophagy, Autosarcophagy, and Necrophillia, I once heard a story from a sound technician from CrawlSpace that he got famously drunk put his underwear on backwards cut out a hole in them and ran around the set with his giant ball sack hanging out which he glued a pair of Googly Eyes too. I don’t know where the myths begin and the facts end but there’s seriously some strange shit afoot with this guy! He’s widely considered the Charles Manson of cinema!!

the great pretender

+ Steve Fowler the same thought crossed my mind.

Well, well.....if it isn't the smoker 😄

In two minutes you'll be smoking in hell

@felix mendez "GET UP! On your feet. Cuchillio, count to 3"

Kinski's sceen with Van Cleef was the best, "I usually smoke after my meal."

That's cos Herzog is the crazy one out of the two and is actually a bit of a drama queen as much as Kinski. Everyone is fooled into thinking Kinski is the crazy one cos he acted crazy on stage so that must be real life LO!L

@@TheTimeDetective42 There are endless numbers of people who were close to Kinski who basically confirm that he was an extremely abusive and toxic person. His daughter says that he sexually abused her from the age of 5 until adulthood

The 9 Bullet story🤣

A LOT of that was fictional accounts though. Kinski himself told Herzog he said things like that in his book because "nobody would buy it otherwise".

@@TheTimeDetective42 kinski was a diagnosed psychopath... lol.

@ ponekingpetch3595 Dude, not one person his denying his “monumental” ability as an actor. That’s NEVER been what people have had an issue with restarting the man. But he’s been dead for decades, you don’t have to keep licking the madman’s boots. 🙄

That‘s BS. There had been many much much much more better actors in europe than Kinski. Believe me!! He is just popular because of his rages. Without these horrible manners no one would have known him. He was a pure pain in the ass and a child abuser. But Not a good actor!!

Era sim um grande ator-acho que devo ter visto todos filmes do kLAUS. ADMIRAVA-O MUITO PELA SUA PERFEIÇÃO---MAS QUANDO LI TANTA INFORMAÇÃO , QUE ERA UM ESTUPRADOR E VIOLENTO PARA AS FILHAS-A FICHA CAIU-----PARA MIM ZERO.

This comment underestimates the quality of european actors in a really awful way!! Please believe me, there have been so many great actors here in germany. Kinski just kicked off the jam by forcing scandals and pissing on nice people! I may name you several actors who were‘nt famous abroad europe because they had more manners. Ok, in the U.S. showing off is anything. That‘s why you have Donald Trump coming up for the next President. He‘s a narcist, a criminal and ugly paranoic psychopath. Just like Kinski, who fucked stupid audiences and his oldest daughter over and over.

Back then he actually could simply act as this nice guy and everyone who didnt know it better would totally bite. But this only worked because the world wide web did not exist for the normal consumer and the everyday citizen in america had no idea about his mental state. Nowadays everything is immediatly in the open. If you behave like a dick elsewhere in the world, people still know now.

Kinski would have eaten Tarantino for breakfast.

Nah Tarantino couldn't have handled him

I assume that Kinski would have been the only actor on the canvas. We call it here hommage

@@AA-sn9lz nah he could’ve.

@@fenrislegacy wow you sound like you know these people on a intimate level, like you’ve been around them and seen how they react in different scenarios, so much so that you’ve developed keen insight into how they would interact with one another. Incredible.

Lmao!!

W.Herzog in his masterclass told a story about how there was a plane crash nearby where they shot and the person behind the radio was telling them about injured or survivors and how they could help, and suddenly Kinski comes out and screams from the top of his lungs about who dared to bring him lukewarm coffee.

According to a German book about the Bond movies he was supposed to get a part as a villain in Thunderball. Maybe the part of Vargas.

Yes I can see him playing that role really well. That got me thinking who is the British equivalent of Klaus Kinski and I think the late Oliver Reed can come close. There aren't any hellraisers left that I can think of that come anywhere near those two.

@@jamesdrichardson3447 Yes, it would be probably Oliver Reed. Kinski and Reed hated each other through the filming of Venom. It`s still one of my favourite Kinski movies.

@@sosbernede5467 If I remember correctly Kinski plays a terrorist with a poisonous Black Mamba snake on the loose in an Embassy Building in London, I can't remember Oliver Reed even being in that movie. Maybe he disliked Kinski because he had the better part to play and Reed was a secondary player.

@@jamesdrichardson3447 Yes, but it takes place in a London flat and not in an Embassy. Kinski plays the main villian and Reed his partner. Both have plenty of sceen time. Kinski gave everyone a very tough time and Reed was always provoking him. The director once said that the Black Mamba -they used a real one for most of the scenes - was the nicest person on the set.

Romy Schneider Exakt. Er hat eh Probleme mit der englischen Sprache und backt daher lieber kleine Brötchen. Er weiß, dass er den Kampf nicht gewinnen kann.

Freundlich... was für ein Ekel er auch hier ist.

Christoph Bader Freundlicher konnte er nicht sein. Er ist einfach nie eine freundliche Person gewesen.

Julian Schmidt Er ist manipulativer Narzist, der nebenbei seine Tochter Pola über Jahre mehr als nur belästigte. Er wäre vermutlich im Gefängnis, würde er noch leben.

@@christophbader3713 Yadda Yadda bla bla was wäre wenn 🙄

Du dumme Sau!

Thank God for that.

although islamists in Germany try so hard

Social workers do.

​@@nonni139Never a dull moment. I love hanging out with extreme personalities.

@@Tha3rdworldghost I guess its fun as long as youre not one of his daughters.. ( I know you might be a male, but you get what I mean, since Klaus was a bit incestious)

I don’t agree. Overacting it is called. Ruining the life of his daughter Polo - there he was intense.

rubbish, plenty of actors did. he's memorable though, indeed. you remember him because of how idiosyncratic he was.

Joker had a cake-walk childhood compared to him: drafted into Hitler's child army, his POW boat sunk by allied subs.

Probably he didn't take German media for full. Sad that he suddenlybis respectfull when it is American . Poor

He behaved like this in Germany too - but only, when interviewers were not idiots.

The is alsp an interview in france where he explode very fast and left. So this has nothing to do with beeing different outside germany.

Hypnotic you mean. Or did you mean Mesmerising?

Seriously? I mean what can't you find on youtube?

There's an opposing side to this though (check out the BBC HARDTalk interview with Werner Herzog or the movie he made about Kinski).. I think you have to be open enough to listen to both sides and then try to make up your mind and even then (considering how difficult and tumultuous their relationship was) it is almost impossible for us outsiders to really find some sort of truth in there and take a side as a consequence, imo.

mollem Dude to be honest, Herzog was as insane as Kinski, but Kinski was more of a neurotic guy who you could easily tell was insane. Herzog was quiet but very narcissistic and psychopathic in a calm way and very machiavellic when it came to making a film. Most artists are a fucking rollercoaster of mental illnesses but hey at least we get to have fun watching them!

@Hans S Madness, violence and depravity are the cornerstones of all great works of art. From the Bhagavad Gita to the Holy Bible to the works of Shakespeare to films of Akira Kurosawa.

@Hans S You’re absolutely right

I think he took less "medicine" in this interview

probably they had a lot of respect to each other, that's why

An actor who plays only himself is no actor.

Lenda de estuprador das filhas--não esqueca

@@Berniewahlbrinck we are all craving to see your Masterpieces.