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"Lars von Trier has a lot of fans at Cannes, but that doesn&amp;#039;t give him any protection from the hacks. He was (rightly) asked to explain himself in 2009 when he presented Antichrist, but his new movie Melancholia lacks that sort of controversy. Lars instead saved all of that for today&amp;#039;s press conference. Read on to find out about his sympathy for Hitler, his love of Spider-Man&amp;#039;s cast and plans to make a four-hour hardcore porn film with Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Antichrist star Charlotte Gainsbourg says that she knows Lars better these days &amp;quot;I know you a lot better... from all different angles.&amp;quot; Does he think Melancholia is a strong contender for the Palme d&amp;#039;Or? &amp;quot;Oh, yes I do! Oh yes I do! Oh yes. Oh yes.&amp;quot; But does he like it? &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not really sure. Maybe it&amp;#039;s crap. Of course I hope not, but there&amp;#039;s quite a big possibility that this might be really not worth seeing.&amp;quot; To Kirsten Dunst about her experiences with depression &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m very happy that you&amp;#039;re mentally disturbed. It helped me.&amp;quot; On casting Udo Kier &amp;quot;I typecast him as a homosexual, and that helped very much. Your performances are fantastic, Udo, I don&amp;#039;t know where you get it from.&amp;quot; On his next film &amp;quot;Kirsten insisted it&amp;#039;s going to be a porn film. We made this very famous beaver-shot in the film - Kirsten demanded to be naked. I said &amp;#039;It doesn&amp;#039;t really fit the film&amp;#039; and she said, &amp;#039;No, no, no, no. I feel strongly for this&amp;#039;. So I said, &amp;#039;Okay, let&amp;#039;s put it in&amp;#039;. And now she wants more - that&amp;#039;s how women are.&amp;quot; And what does Charlotte think about the idea? &amp;quot;Charlotte is right behind this and I&amp;#039;m doing my best. I said, &amp;#039;But then let&amp;#039;s have a lot of talking in between, let&amp;#039;s have a lot of dialogue&amp;#039;. And they said, &amp;#039;We don&amp;#039;t give a s**t about the dialogue. We just want to have a lot of very, very, very unpleasant sex&amp;#039;. That&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;m writing right now. It&amp;#039;s going to be three or four hours long - so this press conference will be a little later, so I can sleep a little longer.&amp;quot; On why he doesn&amp;#039;t make comedies &amp;quot;Whenever I make comedies they become very melancholic also. This was a comedy so you don&amp;#039;t want to see a tragedy!&amp;quot; On Charlotte&amp;#039;s supposed method acting &amp;quot;All the discussion about the Eastern Church is very important for orgasms. In the film of course - they&amp;#039;re all fake, they&amp;#039;re all fake. Charlotte&amp;#039;s are not fake. But that is two different ways of acting. It&amp;#039;s a French versus... I shouldn&amp;#039;t talk about Spider-Man now?&amp;quot; Kirsten asks if Tobey Maguire will become the next Spider-Man star to appear in a von Trier picture &amp;quot;He will be in the porn film.&amp;quot; On taking advice from his director of photography &amp;quot;He said, &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t do the mistake that many middle-aged directors or older directors do - that the women get younger and younger and more and more naked&amp;#039;. I said &amp;#039;Don&amp;#039;t say that to me&amp;#039;. Now, I tell you they&amp;#039;re going to be naked and extremely young.&amp;quot; The director reaches out to his star Kiefer Sutherland &amp;quot;Philosophically I&amp;#039;m against not drinking. I think you should intoxicate yourself. And I&amp;#039;m looking at you, Stellan [Skarsg\u00E5rd]. I could have been looking at Kiefer if he was here but he&amp;#039;s not here, so next in line is you.&amp;quot; On his German roots &amp;quot;I thought I was a Jew for a long time and was very happy being a Jew. Then later on came [Danish director] Susanne Bier and I wasn&amp;#039;t so happy about being a Jew - no that was a joke. Sorry! But it turned out I wasn&amp;#039;t a Jew and even if I was I would have been a second-rate Jew... I wanted to be a Jew and then I found out I was really a Nazi. Because my family was German. Which also gave me some pleasure.&amp;quot; Go on, Lars &amp;quot;What can I say? I understand Hitler. I think he did some wrong things, yes absolutely, but I can see him sitting in his bunker at the end... I think I understand the man. He&amp;#039;s not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him and I sympathise with him a little bit.&amp;quot; Really?!!? &amp;quot;Come on, I&amp;#039;m not for the Second World War - and I&amp;#039;m not against Jews... Susanne Bier is... no, not even Susanne Bier! That was also a joke. I am of course very much for Jews! No, not too much, because Israel is a pain in the ass. How can I get out of this sentence?!?!?!&amp;quot; Let&amp;#039;s move on, Lars &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m very much for Speer - Albert Speer I liked. He was also maybe [not] one of God&amp;#039;s best children, but he had some talent that was possible for him to use during... okay, I&amp;#039;m a Nazi!&amp;quot; On whether he will make a film on a grander scale than Melancholia? &amp;quot;On a grander scale? Yeah, that&amp;#039;s what we Nazis really like. We have a tendency to try to do things on a greater scale. Maybe you could persuade me into... 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