After over 8,000 episodes, Good Times, Bad Times is still a breath of fresh air: a real icon of German acting is joining the series and will cause great emotions as a beauty doctor. You can find out everything that is known about the never-new role in the popular RTL soap here.
Acting legend Hardy Krüger joins GZSZ
Even if GZSZ is often ridiculed as a relic of the past, the production mills continue to turn. Now the RTL daily soap is causing curiosity with casting news: Actor Hardy Krüger will be in the main cast of Good Times, Bad Times for a while.
As RTL reports, the 56-year-old will play the role of plastic surgeon Lars Brunner The doctor lived in the USA for a long time, but now he is returning to Berlin. It remains to be seen whether Krüger’s character will find love in his old homeland or become involved in a medical scandal. However, the broadcaster has revealed this much in advance: Lars Brunner is a“Educated, confident and good-looking heartthrob”.
“It seems the word has gotten around that Hardy wants to start filming again!”
Hardy Krüger (formerly Hardy Krüger Jr.) is the son of the Hatari! star Hardy Krüger, who died in 2022, and therefore comes from a real acting dynasty. However, the son knew how to make his own name early on and has been appearing in television productions for decades. Among other things, he has been on the ZDF crime series Notruf Hafenkante since 2016 as Dr. See David Lindberg.
The actor is passionate about the GZSZ project, as he reveals in an interview with RTL:
Acting is the work that I really enjoy. And GZSZ is one of the series that feels like it has always existed and is now one of the few series that still exists. II’ve played almost everywhere, except for ‘Good Times, Bad Times’. This needs to change, I thought.
Krüger suggests that there may be surprisingly pragmatic reasons for his role offer:
I have been at home in Berlin for four years and have often been to Babelsberg – for example for various dubbing work. Word got around there that Hardy wanted to film again. Then the phone rang. I didn’t have to think for long because I love playing. When will the new episodes Good Times, Bad Times with Hardy Krüger be on TV?
Anyone who wants to see for themselves whether Hardy Krüger cuts a good figure as Lars Brunner will soon have the chance to do so. In summer the time has come: Starting with episode 8,077 on August 6, 2024, Hardy Krüger will be seen on GZSZ. Good Times, Bad Times runs weekdays at 7:40 p.m. on RTL. New episodes can be streamed one week in advance on RTL+.