Do you still dream of your own confectionery?
Still, it’s my dream that I want to fulfill, even though I realize that it won’t be easy.
Do you have a pastry shop in your family?
I suspect that the parents of my grandfather, who unfortunately has already passed away, had a pastry shop in Písek. I don’t know if it’s still there, I looked for it and couldn’t find it. My mom loves to bake and taught me all kinds of baking tricks.
After elementary school, you submitted two applications to the conservatory. They took the vase for acting, but it didn’t work out for singing. Do you have any idea why?
I do not know. Singing was my priority, while I never did acting, I didn’t go to any drama classes or theater training. I prepared for the entrance exams as best I could. I went to tutoring, to music theory, so that I could handle everything, but it wasn’t enough. I guess my singing wasn’t such that they would take me.
You keep singing, you’re being praised on social media for the songs of Amy Winehouse, the British jazz, soul and blues singer who died at just 27. Is he your idol?
She’s not my idol, I just like her songs. I can’t say that I would acknowledge her life, it’s a bit of a lost talent. I’m sorry what happened to her.
As Kristýna in The Golden Swan, she succumbed to the seductions of Bouchner (Ladislav Hampl), the director of a department store.
Viewers knew you from the TV series Ulice, in which you played the problematic Sara, a tough kid. It was your first major acting experience. Wasn’t it difficult to start with the role of a not-so-nice girl?
It wasn’t. I didn’t even take it that way. Actually, I don’t care if the audience sympathizes with the character or not, that’s up to them. I would like to be sympathetic to the audience with my acting performance. I try to play the part as well as possible.
And what about Kristýna from the Golden Swan? She even brings it up against her fellow directors…
I think that she could be more sympathetic to the audience than Sára from Ulica. Kristýna has a difficult fate, as it turns out, and will show even more in the second series. She is not quite what she originally seemed. She had a reason for acting like that. I guess I have a talent for these types of characters, I always play similar girls.
Was it more difficult to relate to the character of the First Republic period?
No, I think both characters are basically the same, you just need to consider the time they are in. After all, the 1930s and 1940s were different from the 21st century. They talked differently, there was a different culture of behavior, a different pressure on society and on women. Both girls are similar in the way they think.
Do you have anything in common with the character of Kristýna?
We are both very ambitious! Very goal oriented.
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Ema Businská
Her development is interesting: she succumbs to the allure of the director, with whom she becomes pregnant, the boss turns out to be her mother, she is excited by the behavior of her fanatical Nazi father… This looks like a very engaging storyline.
You said she was excited? With this father, everything is a little different. Due to the fact that Kristýna grew up only with her father, she did not know a different view of the world than the one he conveyed to her. He applied a strict upbringing, she had to behave very correctly in front of him. I think his behavior is not acceptable, but he has to be respected.
A man at that time was placed high above a woman in society. And she had no choice but to act accordingly. She had a really tough upbringing.
But then he starts to break away from his father’s influence…
Yes, she begins to rebel when she finds out that Valerie, the head of the fashion department, is actually her mom, who her dad denied her. In the second series, there will be a nice hell. I think she doesn’t have a very good relationship with her father and is now glad to have found her mother.
What are your reactions to the role?
So far only positive, I have to knock it everywhere I can. Although, of course, there are viewers who don’t like the character, but that’s always the case. As they say: a hundred people, a hundred tastes.
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Ema Businská
She is the youngest saleswoman in the group of others, which also corresponds to the fact that you are the youngest among the other actresses. How did they accept you?
Probably good, at first it was difficult for me because I didn’t know anyone on the set. After all, the other actresses had already played together and knew each other, so they had a slightly different relationship. And it took me a while to get involved, but now everything is fine.
You told me that you were shooting a movie. what’s up
I shot a tragicomic film for Czech Television, where I edited one of the main characters, a nurse. And it was great.
And how did the casting you were going to go?
I don’t know, nobody told me. It was a period drama from the time of the writer Božena Němcová, Karel Havlíček Borovský and others, in which I was supposed to play the main character’s best friend.
You come from a sports family, your mother swam, your father represented our republic in rowing, took part in the Olympic Games. What about you and sports?
Some time ago, I did an interview for the Olympic team, where they photographed me sitting on a boat and rowing. I and sport are inseparable friends, they belong to me. I realized that I am not 100% me without sports. It’s my escape. For me, sport means the activity where I can relax and switch off the most. Besides that, I also have baking and crocheting.
Acting is all about emoting all the time, learning the lines, making sure you look good on camera, you’re sleepy, you’re always on your brain. Whereas on the water, when rowing, I don’t think about anything other than grabbing the oars under water. I just love sports.
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Ema Businská
This is probably why you decided to go to the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports at the same time as studying at the Prague Conservatory…
That’s just it. About two years ago, I experienced a period when I was at the bottom. I had some personal problems and I wasn’t at my best physically either. And that’s why I completely gave up on sports. Then I realized that I need him, that he makes me happy and that I need to be in an environment other than just acting. So I pulled myself together, started exercising again and eating properly.
It was a challenging period on all levels, but I realized a lot of things during it that I wouldn’t have come up with otherwise.
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