Last week, actor Vincent Croiset came to our editorial office, so of course I immediately grabbed him for a hearty word about his guilty pleasures. “Be open and especially tell everything. No one reads it, so you can be honest.” So, never tell anyone you read this, then I can maintain that I am a woman of my word. Deal? Deal.

Which task do you always procrastinate?

“Administration with a dot. I really get worse at that over the years, and that's while I am reasonably organized. I outsource the annual tax return, but the one I have to do every quarter I do myself. By the way, I'm also in the middle of a move, so that's not very conducive to the administration process.”

Biggest pointless irritation?

“Scooters honking on the bike path. Or cyclists who use their bike bell very aggressively. Then I'm cycling with my children, we are cycling next to each other, and then I hear that aggressive ringing from behind and I really can't stand that. You just have to wait for each other sometimes. If tourists walk in the middle of the road, by the way, you can honk or ring, that's a different story.”

What is your strangest trait?

“Well, yes, wow. I am known to many people as someone who can pick his nose, touches his hair a lot, and also straightens things out. Those books on the table? Uh, no, not those. I mean that I straighten things out about myself. You know? Most people who know me are used to it, but I can think of a gravestone text that says ‘He was touching his nose and his hair and also other things.’ Also in public, by the way.”

Hidden talent?

“I personally think I can sing very well, but that hasn't come out yet. I've had to sing in performances before and once I had a sort of trauma because my song had to be cut. That didn't even have much to do with me but more with the song, but I got so angry that I threw the sheet music at someone's head. Last year I auditioned for Herman Brood and I got quite far in that, and I suddenly found singing very fun. But it hasn't come to that yet, because the guy who got the sheet music thrown at his head was also at that audition...”

What do you do when you're home alone and no one can see you?

“I really love series. I like to watch Netflix, but I'm not often home alone. Right now my favorite series is Fargo, after Breaking Bad of course. They are high on the list. I also watch a lot of series with my children, and others sometimes have an opinion about what I let them see. The eleven-year-old boys love Walking Dead, we think that's a really fun series. But since I also have a five-year-old, you can't avoid that he has seen a zombie too. We had made the agreement that he could watch along, but that as soon as a zombie appeared on screen he had to put a blanket over his head. And he accepted that. But because we often talk about acting, they know it's fake, so they don't find many things scary. But at one point it went wrong, because the five-year-old started ‘playing zombie‘ with his friends at kindergarten. Fighting, smashing brains. So I thought oh god, where is the source? That's me.’

Do you have an embarrassing hobby?

“I started boxing for a while to feel a bit more masculine. And you can call that embarrassing because you have to be able to do things for it and that's not really the case. It may not seem embarrassing, but it is when you see me boxing.”

Most used excuse?

“Well, one I just can't say. No, really not. No, no, no. Uh let's see, well I have become very good at procrastinating. That I can say ‘no I haven't finished it yet because I've been so busy’ or ‘I've been so busy with work.’ Yes, and the kids, you can often use them. And I have many excuses because I sometimes have to lie to myself to do all the things I do, in terms of filming and acting, so if I have double deadlines or appointments, I like to make up a doctor's appointment or a knee injury that has come up again. If possible, huh.”