‘She should have been better protected back then’: Nastassja Kinski, the teenager who grew up too fast in front of the whole world
“From our balcony I used to watch a very beautiful girl who would go to the pool every afternoon to swim a little and sunbathe. I remember that golden skin because at the time she seemed the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.” This is how Demi Moore describes in her memoir Inside Out. My Story her first encounter with Nastassja Kinski (Berlin, 1961). The very young German actress had arrived in the United States under the wing of Roman Polanski, whom she had met at a party in Munich. Fascinated by her beauty, he found in her the ideal actress to play the lead in the film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, a role that had been planned for his wife Sharon Tate, who was brutally murdered by members of Charles Manson’s sect in 1969.
