INTERVIEW

AŇA GEISLEROVÁ

What are your impressions of the movie?

I always try to put off this evaluation as much as possible, because my first impressions are unfortunately selfishly-egoistically hateful, when I am unable to get over self-criticism. I always need a day or two, a year, before I forgive myself. Otherwise I liked the movie very much, it was poignant.

It was the first movie you did with Honza Hřebejk, but you already met him when he was writing the screenplay to Ondřej Trojan's Let's All Sing Around. How did your actor-director collaboration proceed?

Even though someone might think we already knew each other with Honza, it wasn't so. We actually got to know each other only now. Because I was still a nursing mother, I didn't join in those sessions with wine, where the roles were analyzed and people were getting closer somehow. I didn't have time for that at the time. But since now we will probably work together again, there will be more time for it. And this is what Honza's method is about - the human factor, which each actor brings into his role.

How was it to play with Jana Brejchová?

Jana Brejchová is an actress to whom I've always looked up. I like her diction, her eyes, just everything. But when you play, you have to forget that someone is your idol. You just have to work together. With her it was even easier for she put herself a lot in the role of the mother, and for me it was then easier to build this relation with her. She is a very intuitive actress, warm, but at the same time she's a shy person. I believe our collaboration worked real well.

How difficult were the erotic scenes?

Roman Luknár had an absolutely no problematic approach to those scenes. Sometimes it happens that when one has to make such scenes, everybody pretends they never had sex, that they actually don't know how to do it. Here it was the opposite. I was lucky with my partner. Although I am actually shy, I thought this character is definitely not shy, so I allowed even such things I wouldn't normally do. It was probably the first time in my life when I had real fun shooting such scenes. There was no kink.

You look very sexy in the movie. Did motherhood change you somehow?

People probably change after every experience. Motherhood is for a woman probably the biggest and strongest experience. I felt it more on the personal side, when I was hurrying home, I already wanted to have it all behind me. Work is one thing, one venerates and adores it, but then one wants to be home quickly.