During the spring corona crisis, you became involved in the production of drapes, even though the sewing machine was not your friend. How long did it take to do the first one?
I started by cutting the fabric. The next or third day we got five sewing machines and the girls I sewed explained it to me. I also watched the instructional videos, it worked. It was just a problem for me to change the lower thread, which was our most common sentence: “The bottom has run out.” Laughter broke out at that moment.
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Who did the veils help?
First to family members, to the theater. Then it started on Facebook, various organizations started writing to us. Those who knew where the veils were missing were reporting. There was a call from a hospital that they were not getting, so we offered them. We started on three machines and sewed seventy drapes a day, with five machines it was one hundred and thirty. In the evening, they were delivered to specific places. Then we cooked for rescuers for another two months and baked sweets in retirement homes.
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Natálie Řehořová
Photo: Petr Hloušek, Právo
Now the veil is enough, are you thinking of getting involved in other help?
Rehearsals at the theater ended on October 20, so I am in a phase of leisure and looking around. I spend time in the cottage with my family, my nephew is in the first grade, we go distance learning. I’m wondering what to do with myself, because the reopening of theaters seems distant to me, so I’m thinking of a brigade.
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Covid has postponed the premiere of Cyran of Bergerac at the Švand Theater in Prague, where you have the role of Roxana. According to the transcript of the British playwright Martin Crimp?
Compared to the original text by Edmond Rostand, a less romantic, more contemporary woman. She has an idea of masculine beauty, into which the handsome Kristian fits, but she is not at her intellectual level. The production is about our ideas and ideals that clash with reality.
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In the production, director Martin Františák emphasizes the power of the word as a means of power. That seems very current to me.
Very! We are under fire from various media on a daily basis and it is difficult to verify where the information comes from. A terrible mass of negative information is pouring in on us, I understand that someone will slip to nihilism because of it. We should follow all precautions and take care of our health, but at the same time do not do more than is absolutely necessary.
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Aren’t you afraid that culture will slip into some kind of instant form? That it will be served to us as a can using online forms?
Now it’s the way to keep culture alive. I can’t imagine that we won’t play in front of the audience for a year, we won’t stand on stage. But at present, this is the only way to convey a cultural experience. When we opened the theater after a break in June, the audience went in large numbers because they lacked culture. I realized the validity of the idea that if there is no culture, a nation will not survive. We just need food for the soul.
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Natálie Řehořová
Photo: Petr Hloušek, Právo
The premiere of Kill Climate Change Deniers is probably also at risk. In the satirical comedy you have to play the Australian Minister of the Environment. What about you and ecology?
This is a big topic for me for a long time, important and current. I experienced the first eco-crisis in the spring, when I realized in the nature of the cottage how the ponds are drying up around, the forests are not where they were, the trees look like matches without branches. I had the feeling that it looked like the final one. It was scattering in my head that a war for bottled water would break out in a few years. At the cottage, they sometimes turned off the water during the day because there was a shortage.
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I also wondered about the children if I wanted to bring them into this world. I consider the family to be the meaning of life, I wanted to be a mother, to have children… I was wondering whether I wanted to bring them to the desert, to the heat. I’ve been raving about it for about a month.
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What else can lift you besides the affected nature?
I was very upset when my friend and I traveled around America for a month. For example, a visit to a large super organic chain, where in the fruit section they have individual apples in a plastic bag. Still cut into six pieces and each packed separately! Do you understand that ?! This is simply ignoring the environment! They serve plastic coffee in the café. Then I insisted that I wanted it in a mug, but in many cafes and restaurants they do not have glass at all. At the Las Vegas hotel, all plastic dishes are served for breakfast. They take him and fire him.
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A bloody game from which it freezes. With his colleague Matěj Nechvátal in the production of the Švand Theater Lady Macbeth from Újezd.
Photo: ŠD – Alena Hrbková
When you were very young, you played the role of a girl addicted to coffee in the student film Kafé, which won a special award for acting. Do you like coffee?
I was addicted to coffee. (laughs) I limit myself a lot so I don’t drink three a day. I choose cafes and I have good coffee beans at home. The film pleased me, it was made when I was a freshman at the conservatory, and it was my first encounter with a camera.
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At only nineteen, you met with success as the main female character in the French drama Lake. The 2008 film also attracted attention at the Venice Film Festival, where it won a special jury prize. How do you remember shooting?
Like a dream, because it was exceptional, beautiful and essential for me. French director Philippe Grandrieux did not want a French actress, he toured about three states, including us. I was invited to a casting, I was crying that day after the breakup, I didn’t go through this challenge. The director wanted to see what we really looked like. He sent actresses to make up. Well, I thought, I have spots on my face from crying, unpainted… I showed a few etudes, we talked.
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Did you immediately attract the attention of the director?
In the afternoon they called me to come again. He wanted me to play what we played as kids. I started jumping a shot. It’s you, he said. Then it was filmed for two months in Switzerland and France, quite atypically, it was not a classic script, we could improvise. There were five of us actors, we ran in the mountains and the director also made a camera. We went to a few festivals with the film, they graduated a lot abroad, it was wonderful. Director Philippe Grandrieux is respected in France, I respect Jezera very much.
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Originally, maybe Natálka wanted to be a singer, which I deduce from the fact that you have a degree in music and drama and you sing in the band Alo Trio.
When someone asked me what I wanted to be, I answered from an early age as an actress or singer. And my parents supported me in that. In everything I made up. After primary school, I made entrance exams to the conservatory, and then it started.
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