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He speaks from the inside out. At The Masked Singer, the Mustang was allowed to fight for victory as one of four remaining masks in the finale. In the end, Hendrik Duryn (56), who was singing below, only managed third place. But even after the show, the actor is by no means sad about his defeat. Instead, he reflects on the good times: That’s what it really was like Hendrik as a “Masked Singer” Mustang.
When the 56-year-old was first informed about his role as a wild horse, he was amazed. In an interview with ProSieben, he reveals that it was a particular challenge for him to play “such a potent stallion” in Germany. The costume itself was anything but child’s play. “I have [es] I wore it for the first time and thought: ‘I can’t even get through the first show’ – because there’s no air. “It’s a pressed sausage,” he remembers.
That he did it “despite many [negativer] Comments on Social Media” made it to the final, looking back, it was particularly surprising, as he himself says. Nevertheless, he also received a lot of encouragement from the fans of the popular quiz show during his time on “The Masked Singer.” “It’s okay not about you as a person, but about the character – and that should bring joy. […] And that was the purpose of the exercise,” emphasized Hendrik last.
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