Nilam Farooq: I often locked myself in the bathroom and cried

She was lucky, says actress Nilam Farooq (32) in conversation in one of these many alternative cafés in Berlin-Kreuzberg.Exclusion because of their family background was not in their lives for a long time.The classmates at the humanistic Goethe-Gymnasium in Berlin, where she graduated from high school, it didn't matter where her parents came from.

Nilam Farooq: Ich habe mich oft im Bad eingeschlossen und geweint

Colorful: Was there stupid sayings at school?

Nilam Farooq: No, I was not bullied there, I rather bordered myself because I was very unsure about myself.I'm more of a curvy guy and had to accept that for myself.These were my topics.When I started working as an actress at 15, on the other hand, I immediately came into the drawer "foreigner background".Only then did it start.