Throughout his interview with Movie Inquiry, Ben Kingsley elaborates on the emotional distance he maintained from the character of Adolf Eichmann: 

“I by no means needed to get into his thoughts, his silhouette, his form. It was molded by my data of his victims and the way a lot they’d suffered below him … I didn’t base my efficiency on his ideology, I primarily based my efficiency on the struggling that he triggered to a few of my closest and dearest buddies amongst the survivors.

Kingsley made no try and empathize or perceive Eichmann’s standpoint, and his aloof efficiency displays this. Kingsley conveys the scary banality of Eichmann’s evil by his fastidious angle and calmness. It’s not a mechanical efficiency, however a chilly one. The actor exhibits how Eichmann was a calculating man who knew precisely how you can manipulate others. In a single scene, he makes the agent Peter Malkin imagine that he regrets the deaths of Malkin’s sister and nephew. Within the measured supply of his traces, Kingsley depicts how Eichmann’s maliciousness was a supply of patriotic satisfaction. 

Kingsley’s performing methodology for “Operation Finale” opposes his roles as notable Jewish figures. In “Schindler’s Listing”, he performs the decided Itzhak Stern who helps save 1,200 Jewish women and men. In response to Kingsley’s interview with NPR, throughout filming, he “had an image of Anne Frank in my coat pocket, and I’d say to this image of this lovely woman earlier than takes: ‘I am doing this for you.'” His affection for Anne additionally helped him play her father in “Anne Frank: The Complete Story.” Kingsley approaches these vital Jewish roles with love and tenderness, in contrast to his sinister efficiency of Eichmann, whom Kingsley needed to “nail to the gates of Auschwitz” (by way of The Instances of Israel).