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2024-04-05 00:49:00
According to the Kossuth and Jászai Mari prize-winning actor, it’s no use telling someone that it’s the best in Europe if the audience says it’s terrible.
Here, they can’t imagine that you don’t belong anywhere. If you have to go vote, I’d rather say who I’m not voting for, and there are a lot of them. They cannot imagine that you have your own opinion – said János Gálvölgyi in a video interview with Telex. The Kossuth and Jászai Mari prize-winning actor also spoke about his profession, the theater, the left-liberal label, humiliation and hatred due to differing opinions, and the audience.
They stuck the left-liberal label on me as III. The hump on Richard’s back. If my opinion has met with those who have a different opinion, it does not mean that you have to kill, hate, spit on, humiliate, or write terrible things about the other person – explained the actor, who called the period when he had to fit into Béla Pintér’s troupe very difficult. The difficulty for him was whether he could meet the expectations of the other actors and the troupe manager, but at the same time he was refreshed as an actor, receiving a “blood transfusion” in medical terms. “He works – I think from my readings – like Shakespeare, he has six or eight people whom he knows very well, he thinks about them and writes roles for them,” he added.
About his own career, the 1968 Who Knows? about the period from the beginning of the program to the present day: “It is not enough that you were appointed and your boss said. The fact that you are a leading general in a theater has to be believed by those around you, and they have to take note of it. (…) I only know something if I am still sitting here after 56 years. I could not have this much protection for decades. The one who wore prosthetics fifty years ago is long dead, the one who wore it forty years ago, I’m the only one alive. There has to be something.
One party, one power can give everything. He can name you, he can give you awards, but he can’t give you one thing: talent. Because it’s no use telling you that you’re the best in Europe if the audience says it’s terrible. The audience cannot be fooled, he asserted, and about the fact that an article without an author in Origó wrote that it would be a shame if he was chosen as the nation’s actor, he said: “I have a great degree of pity for the person to whom this was said, lasting for seconds.” had to write. It is not easy to humiliate someone without even knowing anything about each other.
