Andrzej Wajda - Roman Polaski in Revenge (184/222)

And I was able to meet Roman Polański who played the role of the fantasist knight Papkin in ’Revenge’.The first time was when he’d been in ’A Generation’ in ’54 when we’d been shooting, and now, after all these years, he had appeared again in one of my films made in 2001 as an actor. The fact that he had agreed to be in the film was something of a surprise, even quite a significant surprise because I know that he’s not too keen on acting. But I think that after ’The Pianist’ he suddenly felt like immersing himself in a different world, perhaps because a large part of ’The Pianist’ was made in Poland, he’d reminded himself of the Polish language because he’d talked a lot with us in Polish which he normally didn’t do, and suddenly he wanted to play a role in his native language.