In his Oscar-speech for Karakter (1997), he honored his Oscar to his
friend and colleague Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh. Coen died in the
Flodder-studios in Almere due to a cardiac arrest while performing a
stunt.
[After winning an Oscar and being invited to Hollywood, and the subsequent struggle to find a suitable project] Hollywood gives you a Michelin star, and then invites you to come over and bake hamburgers.
