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In 2019, the premiere of a Netflix series was presented at the Canneseries trade fair, which dealt with a children’s room dealer. Was the success immediately clear at the time?

Maxi Mundt: We hadn’t seen anything before – then she ran there with English, French and Italian subtitles. In addition, all SMS that were in the picture had to be translated. With us, so much happens at the same time, at high speed. People were so busy reading that it was not laughed. I thought, okay, that flops, then I would probably study again. Danilo Kamperidis: And then we got the Grimme Prize, the German television award, the Romy.

What has changed personally for you in six years and four seasons? The series itself has become a brand.

Mundt: Full, the title was often recycled. A pharmacy made advertising with « How to Sell Pharmacy Online Fast », the Dax with « How to Sell Dax Online Fast ». The saying has become so megagro. Kamperidis: I noticed the comments that the audience grew up with this series. It says: « In season one I went to school, now I have met my wife and we moved into a house. » This is quite rare, but you can be proud that people don’t forget us, even though we had a four -year break.

Did the series offer you a platform or also set you very much? Was she a curse and a blessing at the same time?

Mundt: (Laughs.) It was a curse and blessing. Casting Directors often thought that they were fully booked with the large series anyway. At the same time, our characters are so blatant that people only see you in this role. As with Daniel Radcliffe. He was Harry Potter, and only years later the cool new roles came.

Kamperidis: Without « How to Sell » I wouldn’t be an actor now, then I might have decided on something else. So I would never want to exchange. I have realized in the past three years that after a great project like ours you often make the mistake of wanting to go on it again, still looking for something bigger, better, with even more spectators. You have to be careful.

Was the Netflix series like a small lottery win?

Kamperidis: When I used to admit supermarket shelves or delivered newspapers, I would never have dreamed that I could live with something great as acting. Mundt: We both don’t come from rich families. If something was there, it was spent. Kamperidis: It was absurd: I earned what my parents earned a month in two or three days – at the age of 18.

Does the series also live from and through your personal friendship?

Mundt: In this season, friendship is the central topic! Kamperidis: Actually, the central topic is love. Mundt: Yes, a Platonic love. It is about friendships in men, emotional injuries, jealousy and revenge. Kamperidis: Everyone knows it. Of course there are only characters, fictional characters, but I always found this sweet friendship between the main characters.

Is this a pleasant contrast to toxic masculinity that is currently very often discussed?

Kamperidis: which we also address, in the intrigue who both spin. Mundt: Or in Moritz’s striving for recognition, success and money: he wants to be the greatest, fastest and strongest. I always assumed that Moritz is an ass. Especially in season four, he rides himself further and further into his shit and does not admit his feelings. The nice thing about the film is that we see the feelings anyway. I think it’s enormous how film can do it: that we tell about the most blatant antagonists, experience things with them – and suddenly understand why they are as they are. Kamperidis: This is also dangerous.

Dangerous because the transition from empathy to manipulation can be fluid?

Kamperidis: At the age of 14, I was « soprano » fan and thought that Tony Soprano was the coolest type Ever. When I saw the series again at 20, I first understood that it was actually about his abysses and about how he destroys everything around him. I believe that our profession is forcing us to deal with psychology, with interpersonal humanity and with the cooperation: how does a person behave and how does he want to behave? That is usually apart. Through these rotating observations, we also develop in our own personality.