BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: THE STORY OF NASTASSJA AND KLAUS KINSKI by Harbinson W A

Author:Harbinson, W A [Harbinson, W A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Custom Books Publishing
Published: 2011-11-09T08:00:00+00:00

His relationship to Minhoi Geneviève was absurdly melodramatic and filled with self-regard, with both of them, now off drink and drugs, becoming obsessed with ‘larger’ issues. Indeed, so obsessed was Kinski with possessing Minhoi, and so convinced was she about the ‘corruption’ of Western society, that when the latter became pregnant they both seriously considered bringing the child up in the mountains of south Vietnam, or even the Himalayas, far away from the vile material world. Naturally, as part of this naïve Utopian fancy, Kinski also regurgitated his old dream of building a boat and sailing the world, accompanied only by his wonderful wife and their unborn, uncontaminated child.

Alas, even as they discussed such dreams, they were constantly fighting over other matters.

Kinski’s pathological possessiveness had become so strong that he insisted upon keeping every door in their apartment open to ensure that he could always see Minhoi. He feared she might climb out through the bathroom window and head for freedom via the fire escape. This anxiety often made him rush naked from the shower to check that she was still in the apartment. He refused to let her shop alone. He also refused to leave the house unless she accompanied him. When Minhoi got bored with sitting on film locations with nothing to do and so refused to go with him, Kinski almost went crazy on the set and would think of nothing other than getting the scene finished and racing home to ensure that his wife was still there.

Sometimes he screamed and sobbed for her.

Increasingly obsessed with the notion that she could not be left unattended, he packed a tent and duffel-bag, then drove her to Normandy, Brittany, and England. In order to break ‘away from the deadly tomb of civilisation,’ they slept rough. They also repeatedly fought and made up. They also laughed and cried a lot. Last but not least, in their desperate pursuit of perfect Oneness, they decided to have their child born in civilised Paris instead of decadent Rome.

Once back in his beloved Paris, living in a small apartment in the Avenue Foch, Kinski started obsessing about the coming of his first son, having firmly fixed in his mind that a son it would be. So great was his fascination with this future event that he only worked when he needed money and used any excuse to turn down roles that didn’t guarantee it. This included the offer to take the lead in Satre’s adaptation of Kean, scheduled for the Paris City Theatre. Considering that he was then desperately in need of money, it is revealing that Kinski’s first objection was to the producer’s ‘deficient financial offer.’ His next objection was that the esteemed author, Jean-Paul Satre, ‘eats and drinks like a pig and smokes like a chimney.’ Kinski had only skimmed through Satre’s adaptation, but was convinced on that reading that it was a ‘ridiculously bad play.’ For this reason, he cut nearly every line and ended up with barely more than the original monologues from Shakespeare.

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