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INTERVIEW WITH HAN HOOGERBRUGGE
INTERVIEW WITH HAN HOOGERBRUGGE
by Domenico Quaranta
DQ. From 1996 to now, from Neurotica to Spin, your work always had just a leading character, your animated alter ego. Hotel has many characters, and no one looks like you: but the life you describe is always the same – absurd, risky, nevrotic. Are you entering a new phase – from all in one to one in all? And what about Dr. Doglin, the main character in Hotel?
HH. Yes in a way it’s a new phase. All the characters in Hotel are real people, friends of mine.
Alltough they act like me in a way, I create them, I do try to put something of their personality in them.
It’s starts with my decision to ask someone to act in Hotel. I try to ask people I think that will fit into my world.
They are all friends of mine so the got to have something I like to start with. Once I ask someone we try to find something we could do, trying to figure out how they can act in my world but using their way of moving, behaving.
Dr. Doglin is someone I met through the internet. He mailed me about 3 years ago that he liked my site.
We started an on going e-mail conversation and about 6 month later we met in real life. We are of the same age (40) en we have a lot in common. like the same music, films, comics etc.
Because of how he looks I thought he would be the perfect character for my Doctor.
