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Street stories: Fighting for the opportunity that no one gives for free

13 May 2010 / 11:05:07  GRReporter
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Now I know. 

Smooth roads are not for us 

It is clear that nothing is easy. Whatever work you decide to start and if you want to do it well – there will always be problems. Currently the problem is that there are less and less projects and work cannot be found easy. This means that you should try harder, be better, so you can survive in these conditions. Except for not being able to find work easy, today we have another problem – salaries fell. So I am forced to work a second job, so I can survive. 

Actually I do my second job so I can continue to do the first one. 

Always a good boy 

Most often they give me the role of the good boy because I have such a face. At least according to casting directors. There is this stereotype that people are judged according to their appearance, and this is particularly true for my work. In one of the last films in which I participated this year, the director gave me the role where I had to steal. Basically it was a very violent scene. In a conversation with a casting director, she said that if it were up to her, she wouldn’t have chosen me for this a role. However, the scene was very successful. 

The truth is that with work and perseverance come opportunities for more interesting roles. At the beginning you accept any roles you are offered, but at some point comes the opportunity to choose what you want to play or to try new roles, unknown to you until that moment. You fight for the opportunity and they give it to you. I have many colleagues, who choose a certain type of character and remain loyal only to it, but this is the easier road. 

Right to a mistake 

The hardest thing for me is when I hear from close people, questions like "When will you find a normal job?" When you hear such a question from the nearest around you, you understand how alone you really are. Such questions are unpleasant, but when you have made the decision on how to shape your life, then you stop paying attention to these things. My people enjoy that they can come and see me in the theater or see me in an episode of a TV series, but nevertheless according to them acting in not a job. Probably because from the outside it looks easy, but it is not. Whatever the reason is, I want my friends to support me when I am wrong. When I am obviously right, all support me, but my friends need to be with me when I am wrong as well. A man has the right to be wrong and this comes from the fact that we know what’s best for us. Knowledge about some things comes only with experience. In order to get through some vicissitudes of fate, we need our friends. They just make the process easier. 

Love 

Love finds a place in our lives by itself. When the time comes to make a decision, this is when it shows who you are. I have not yet experienced my great love, because I was not given the chance. I was betrayed. I fought for her for a long time, until one day I realized that there is no point. I asked my roommate to grab the closest thing and hit me in the head if I ever even thought about calling the girl, who broke my heart, again. He took this burden, but thankfully he did have to go through with it. 

Basically I believe in great love, but whether I believe or not, it does not make much difference. Nothing has changed much so far. I believe in luck as well, but it hasn’t come along too! However, we never know what future has for us. 

  

My conclusion from my meeting with Themi is that whether you believe or not, does not matter. It is important to act. Never to give up and always to look for new roads. At the end of the day, thing can always be worse and if we want something different, then it all depends on us.

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