Isabelle Huppert as “Maria Vial” in WHITE MATERIAL directed by Claire Denis Photo Credit: © An IFC Films Release (Click to enlarge)

It was different from the other ones, maybe because it was the last one. Neal Baer and his team very kindly offered to write the role for me. So I said, “why not?” It was fun for me to do — very different from what I usually do. Especially when they approached me, I was doing Quartett at BAM , which is centuries away from this view, as you can imagine. So I thought the two together were quite funny. You know, you do Quartett at BAM with Robert Wilson and at the same time you are being approached to do an SVU appearance with wonderful actors. And I have to say, to be honest, I didn’t know the series because I’m not very much into [television] culture. But then they showed me a couple of episodes and I was struck by the quality of the performances: it was very, very well acted. So I said, “if they are good, then maybe I’ll be good too.”