“I’m so glad I was lucky to be with the boys on the spot! Playing with the Cimrmans is a dream I didn’t even dare dream. I think my dad would be proud of me, “confided the actor, who played the dual role of Matěj and Mária, who is trying to get a young pharmacist.
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The film tells the story of an aging writer Karel Šejnoha, who is no longer able to write as before. Unfinished stories accumulate in his head and their characters climb into the light of day and demand that the author continue the story. “My character, which Šejnoha writes about, realizes at some point that it could be written perhaps with a sharper pencil and that it should acquire a few sharper features, as such a shooter,” explained Vojtěch Kotek, who tries to impress a pharmacist as a photographer. Terezou Ramba.
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For this pair of actors, the collaboration is not their first. “We’ve been filming a few times, we’ve known each other for a long time and we have a partner’s past, so it’s fun to be able to rely on something you’ve experienced with the other,” Kotek said, adding that they had even minor disputes. “The two characters have quite a few quarrels, not that we’re constantly arguing, but sometimes it has happened, so we have something to draw from. I’m kidding, Tereza and I are mainly good friends, which is always nice, “the actor added.
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In order to differentiate the roles of Matěj and Mária, director Jan Svěrák had Vojtěch shaved for one of the roles. “It was terrible. When I climbed in front of the makeup bus, it started to get cold on my chin! I didn’t understand at all that that beard could warm up like that. I felt naked, naked and ten years younger. It wasn’t pleasant. But it’s nice to play a double role, I’ve never been lucky before, “Kotek explained, adding that some colleagues did not even know him without growth.
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“When I came among the other people to the place, they frightened me and said, ‘Jesus Christ!’ Cameraman Vladimír Smutný refused to call me Vojto and said: Now you are Matěj. So maybe it worked. But I wear beards more often, so I feel better with them, “the actor added.
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The film Bethlehem Light is released by Bioscop on March 10.
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