Name: ‘Borat’ Star Maria Bakalova Talks Breakout Role and Filming in Secret | On The Rise | BAZAAR
Uploaded: 2021-01-28T01:20:59.000Z
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This is actually a really crazy industry.

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And I was like, um I gonna be strong enough to handle the pressure because it's kind of hard sometimes.

Even if you admire some script, you might not be right for the part, and that might destroy you.

I'm Maria back Oliver, and this is on the rise.

When I was six years old, I wanted to do something with music.

I wanted to be a rock star or something like that because my dad was obsessed with, like, sibling or her till papers.

And that's how I started my path with music.

But when I was probably 12, 13 years old, I was like, Okay, what else we can dio.

That's how I decided that I want to be an actor because I wanted to, like, live different lives one day to be here the other day to be on the moon.

My first professional role was at my first Bulgarian movie transgressions when I was 19 and I was casted by the director and the producer for a few cities, which are kinda extreme, actually, and then I got it in.

My love for with Nima became a very stronger my family has always been behind my back.

A lot of people have been growing up around people from this industry, and I have nobody.

But they've been always with me supporting me, and I think they might be happy now.

Theo casting for Borough It was actually even more secretive than shooting the movie, because when you're shooting the movie, you are around real people.

So it's not actually that huge of a secret.

But the casting was like, Basically, we have this huge project We're searching for Eastern European or person with accent, which is actually incredible for my fellow Eastern Europeans actors.

But it was without the script without what is the studio behind?

But then I went to England and I'm a Tasha, and all of this magic started the first time when I realized that I had the role of Tuta Waas.

Probably when they asked me what I'm doing next month.

It was basically traveling me again, toe England for some prosthetics tests because at the beginning it was like we might put something on your face but things that we had the great test makeup artist Katy Frey, who made all of the changes.

So it was kind of a weird situation because I was more sure that I got the job after I get back here for the second time, Way started testing with real people.

Um, from the first day of screen tests in England, when I met Sasha in person and we were with the sweetest couple, probably my last audition was Am I gonna be able to handle a scene alone like is are these people going to believe that I'm a real person?

Or they might be like, Oh, this is an actor.

So they let me leading a few scenes with a few different people by myself, and I was so stinky because I created a smell that it was like vinegar and old eggs and oil and that kind of things.

And at the end, I was trying to hug them.

That was pre code, and they never realized that I'm an actor, so it just kind of okay, I think the night of the release, I went to see my incredible producer, Monika Levinson, and two other off her friends and have, like a small secret premier.

And the next day, like my whole instagram, my whole male, my whole all of my messages were exploding because I never mentioned in front of anybody, even my closest friends or relatives or parents, even what I'm working on.

Even when they released the trailer way didn't use me speaking So people wasn't at your Is that Maria?

And in the middle of a pandemic and it was crazy.

But I was happy with the result, because people I have a feeling they are ready for standing up against misogyny and against subjugating women because we should not live in a patriarchy world.

We should all be equal and support and love each other and be kind.

The most amazing thing that happened after the release of the movie was I mean every single days, amazing, but maybe signing with C A.

Because I feel my team as part of my family and also, all of this incredible awards on our honors and all of the messages that I'm receiving from people, how their hopes has never been stronger, that things air that are possible and especially actors from my region of the world can get there.

I'm not quite sure that I made it because you can always go higher.

You can always develop more, so I definitely cannot say that I made it.

I think for my life in this world and I will keep going until the rest of my life.

I'm not sure that I have a dream role because I'm more passionate about project just in general that have strong messages and all of my previous characters that I've played in my entire life has bean stories of strong women, how we can overcome anything because women are strong and beautiful just the way they are.

And I was strongly influenced by Danish cinema for maybe six years of my life.

There is always be a place for Thomas Vint, American large from three year and Susanna beer.

Stories still in a beautiful way that they're telling the story because maybe that's it.

You need three incredible things for have the great beginning.

Good script, good script and good script.

And from then if you have the great team, you're making it five years, I'm gonna be almost 30.

I definitely wanna be busy as hell, but at the same time, of course, I wanna be surrounded by people that I love.

 I mean five years there is such a long time ahead, So just let's stay healthy and overcome this, um, crazy pandemic that we're living in and we will see what is gonna happen. 