For his children’s plays, he bought tickets to the bathroom instead of the theater
Latina Petrova was a very bad girl as a child and always free. “My parents did not limit me in anything. I was not punished on the corner. I was given my life to fix it as I saw fit,” she says the actress. That’s why she too now that she has a granddaughter, she doesn’t allow them to touch her – “the child is a little philosopher”.
His knees were always sore from games. From folk dance to partisans and Apaches, she always played on the streets with his friends until late. “We came home in the evening dead tired of playing and fell asleep on the tables while we ate dinner. I was obedient, but I always considered what to listen to and what not to listen to,” laughs Latina.
At that time there was no television and the only thing left for the children was to play. “As if we grew up inventing games. Now the computer is at hand and you don’t have to invent anything,” says the actress.
So he played with the other sons of kings. Furthermore, the situation in his house predisposed to this. After a while a little boy, who saw the Viennese furniture, asked her: “Aunt Lati, were you king?”. “At the time there were few houses with Viennese furniture,” she remembers the actress.
And two of his classmates were his pages, while Latina was the queen. “They were always around me and pulling out a relationship, and I felt like a queen,” she laughs. After many years, she saw one of her friends selling snacks and was so happy that the woman gave her a cake.
The neighbors always gave the children what they had in the gardens and everyone knew each other. “There weren’t that many cars, he was calm, with the premonition that life has just begun and that we are free to do whatever we want,” recalls the actress.
Latinka Petrova grew up in a house in Sofia, although she was born in the Kyustendil village of Gorna Koznitsa, and that was when the evacuation took place during the bombing in Sofia. Therefore, her mother had to carry her 13 km, because the railway line was destroyed. The actress never lived in the village where she painted Vladimir Dimitrov-The master.
From there, Latinka still remembers the beauty, the smell of hay, fresh grass and goats that were part of every yard. Her family was rich, they owned 800 goats. The legacy was left by the actress’s great-grandfather, an immigrant from Greek Macedonia.
Of her childhood years in Sofia, Latinka remembers very well the singers who went into homes on Christmas Eve. “They came with yamurluci and gags, on which my grandmother put pretzels. They sang songs like” Buži, buži, Christmas “and with that they woke me up,” explains the actress.
As a child, her grandmother regularly took her to church and taught her humility. “I’m not super religious, but it was part of my childhood order and thank God it was there.” In her family matriarchy prevailed and the men were more bohemian, she explains.
At just one year and eight months old, Latinka goes to an orphanage and for some reason remembers her first teacher, who burned love letters in the stove. “She was a very beautiful woman, and I was almost 2 years old, but I still remember her. After a while I was already in high school, I met her on the tram, she was sitting in front of me. How did I know her? She was white , but still dignified, “says Latinka Petrova.
Being an actress, chosen as a child. Friends from the neighborhood would come to their backyard, gather the whole neighborhood and perform in theatrical performances. They used curtain rugs and tore up bathroom tickets. To make it more real, they crossed out the word “bathroom” and wrote “theater” to it. “We did improvised plays because we were little and had no idea where to look for a collection of plays. So we made up stories. It was cool, because these are the little tests for the future – where a person will go. Apparently, I’ve been drawn there since I was little, “says the actress. She also regularly wore her mother’s clothes, she wore one of her hats, red three-quarter gloves and took the Japanese umbrella.
Lessons in Russian and French, as well as accordion and piano, also helped her artistic attitude. She also went to ballet, but the instructor told her that she only had her body for characteristic dances, she was not cut out to be a ballerina.
A lesson, however, he will never forget. While she was still in elementary school, on one of her birthdays, a Latina saw a boy and girl kissing and she reported it. It turned out that the girl in question was the daughter of a great boss. The director called the then 10-year-old Latina girl into her office, stepped on her foot and slapped her. “Who are you to talk about Roza Kopanarova,” he told her. “My head has gone crazy,” she remembers the actress. After this incident, she Latina refused to go to school for the next three months because she was deeply offended. “This is my lesson in truth. In fact, this has also proved true in my life: betrayal and lying are fatal things for me in terms of friendship,” she says the actress. Then a special council is convened in the school, where Latina tells the truth, and so they fire the principal.
When she graduated from high school, this same man was distributing books to honored students, even though he was no longer the principal of the school. It was Latina’s turn, he offered her a hand to shake, but she didn’t take it because she was still hurt.
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