He recently turned 40. “So I thought about myself and realized that I was ‘just’ an actor. I thought what else could I do, but I feel good this way,” he assures. How far do his ancestral genes go? Could he be a politician? How does it relate to firearms? What does he think is the problem with actors? What is his relationship to the countryside and Šumava? And what did he reveal about The Curious Case of the Dog?
“We actors play all our lives and we are nothing. At a certain stage in life it catches up with you and you feel like you should really be something. And you’re looking. So the desire to do something real probably originates there somewhere,” explains Štěpán Benoni about his childhood dream of joining the active reserves.
Art won. Maybe also because his dad is a cameraman. “Thanks to him, I understood that the camera is an integral part of acting. I say that three people make a role in a film: the actor, the director and the cameraman. This is the triumvirate from which the character will be created,” explains the actor, known from the TV series Cuckoos or, most recently, Ghost.
Night Connections is a brand new theater production in which he plays. “It’s a light comedy and a play about how we’re all a little crazy. For me, it is very original in the way it is written and conceived. I really like it, even if I shouldn’t say it,” smiles actor Štěpán Benoni in Close Encounters.
