Girl You Know It’s True Interview: Matthias Schweighöfer on Milli Vanilli Movie By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Girl You Know It’s True star Matthias Schweighöfer about his role in the Milli Vanilli biopic movie. Schweighöfer discussed playing producer Frank Farian, his complicated legacy, and more. It will be released on August 9, 2024.
“Girl You Know It’s True is centered around the true story of the notorious scandal involving dancers Robert Pilatus’ (Tijan Njie) and Fabrice Morvan’s (Elan Ben) rise to fame in the late 1980s as “Milli Vanilli.” Orchestrated by music producer Frank Farian (Matthias Schweighofer), they became global stars with three No. 1 hits in the U.
S.. But only a small circle of insiders know that the duo was not actually singing but rather lip-syncing to the voices of two other artists.
At the height of their fame, Milli Vanilli won a Grammy Award, but the situation behind the scenes escalated, and the pressure on Rob and Fab grew. When the truth is revealed, they found themselves engulfed in one of the biggest scandals in music history,” says the synopsis. : That’s a very interesting question.
When the scandal happened about Milli Vanilli, it was the same time when the war came down in Germany. East Germany, West Germany, reunited. So, I kind of explored the pop duo a few years later when I was 15-17 and when I started to prep for this movie.
I think first I started to work on, hey, what’s the human aspec.