Editing Lars von Trier (section)

=== Approach to actors ===
In an interview for [[IndieWire]], von Trier compared his approach to actors with "how a chef would work with a potato or a piece of meat", clarifying that working with actors has differed on each film based on the production conditions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2009/10/lars-von-trier-i-think-working-with-actors-is-a-little-bit-how-a-chef-would-work-with-a-potato-246359/ |title=Lars von Trier: "I think working with actors is a little bit how a chef would work with a potato…" - IndieWire |first=Brian |last=Brooks |website=www.indiewire.com |date=20 October 2009 |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=24 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824012453/http://www.indiewire.com/2009/10/lars-von-trier-i-think-working-with-actors-is-a-little-bit-how-a-chef-would-work-with-a-potato-246359/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He has occasionally courted controversy by his treatment of his lead actresses.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/11/06/142026288/lars-von-trier-a-problematic-sort-of-ladies-man |title=Lars Von Trier: A Problematic Sort Of Ladies' Man? |website=NPR.org |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=26 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426063617/http://www.npr.org/2011/11/06/142026288/lars-von-trier-a-problematic-sort-of-ladies-man |url-status=live }}</ref> He and [[Björk]] famously fell out during the shooting of ''[[Dancer in the Dark]]'', to the point where she would abscond from filming for days at a time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a818243/movie-feuds-bruce-willis-megan-fox/ |title=The 8 most notorious feuds between stars and their directors |last=Fletcher |first=Rosie |publisher=Hearst Magazines UK |date=6 June 2018 |website=digitalspy.com |access-date=21 March 2019 |archive-date=20 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320202059/https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a818243/movie-feuds-bruce-willis-megan-fox/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She stated of von Trier, who shattered a monitor while it was next to her, that "you can take quite sexist film directors like [[Woody Allen]] or [[Stanley Kubrick]] and still they are the one that provide the soul to their movies. In Lars von Trier's case it is not so and he knows it. He needs a female to provide his work soul. And he envies them and hates them for it. So he has to destroy them during the filming. And hide the evidence."<ref name="LT" />

[[Nicole Kidman]], who starred in von Trier's ''[[Dogville]]'', said in an interview with [[Radio National|ABC Radio National]] that she tried to quit the film several times in response to comments von Trier made on set, often while inebriated, "but I say this laughing...I didn't do the sequel but I'm still very good friends with him, strangely enough, because I admire his honesty and I see him as an artist, and I say, my gosh, it's such a hard world now to have a unique voice, and he certainly has that."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/invalid/movietime/interview-with-nicole-kidman-actor-margot-at-the/3292346|title=Interview with Nicole Kidman, actor, 'Margot At The Wedding'|date=2 November 2006|website=ABC Radio National|access-date=8 December 2021|archive-date=8 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208183623/https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/invalid/movietime/interview-with-nicole-kidman-actor-margot-at-the/3292346|url-status=live}}</ref>

However, other actresses he has worked with, such as [[Kirsten Dunst]] and [[Charlotte Gainsbourg]] have spoken out in defence of his approach.<ref name="LT">{{cite web |url=https://www.gq.com/story/lars-von-trier-gq-interview-bjork-john-c-reilly-kirsten-dunst-nicole-kidman-extras/ |title=Lars von Trier Interview GQ October 2011 |first=Chris |last=Heath |date=17 October 2011 |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=7 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507230543/http://www.gq.com/story/lars-von-trier-gq-interview-bjork-john-c-reilly-kirsten-dunst-nicole-kidman-extras |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/01/28/charlotte-gainsbourg-je-suis-prete-a-excuser-beaucoup-chez-lars_4355449_3246.html |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg : " Je suis prête à excuser beaucoup chez Lars " |first=Isabelle |last=Regnier |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=28 January 2014 |via=Le Monde |access-date=16 October 2017 |archive-date=16 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016230040/http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2014/01/28/charlotte-gainsbourg-je-suis-prete-a-excuser-beaucoup-chez-lars_4355449_3246.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.indiewire.com/2014/03/charlotte-gainsbourg-on-being-lars-von-triers-nymphomaniac-i-was-disturbed-embarrassed-and-a-little-humiliated-28659/ |title=Charlotte Gainsbourg On Being Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac': 'I was disturbed, embarrassed and a little humiliated…' - IndieWire |first=Boyd van |last=Hoeij |website=www.indiewire.com |date=25 March 2014 |access-date=16 October 2017 |archive-date=5 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005212134/http://www.indiewire.com/2014/03/charlotte-gainsbourg-on-being-lars-von-triers-nymphomaniac-i-was-disturbed-embarrassed-and-a-little-humiliated-28659/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Nymphomaniac'' star [[Stacy Martin]] has stated that he never forced her to do anything that was outside her comfort zone. She said "I don't think he's a misogynist. The fact that he sometimes depicts women as troubled or dangerous or dark or even evil; that doesn't automatically make him anti-feminist. It's a very dated argument. I think that Lars loves women."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/06/nymphomaniac-charlotte-gainsbourg-stacy-martin-lars-von-trier |title=Nymphomaniac stars: 'Lars isn't a misogynist, he loves women' |first=Xan |last=Brooks |newspaper=The Guardian |date=6 February 2014 |via=www.theguardian.com |access-date=16 October 2017 |archive-date=16 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016225808/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/06/nymphomaniac-charlotte-gainsbourg-stacy-martin-lars-von-trier |url-status=live }}</ref>