It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.