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Jim Bakkum about criticism of films Johan Nijenhuis: ‘Not everyone makes Shakespeare’ | NOW

Jim Bakkum can be seen from this week in Our Boys in Miami, the second film by Johan Nijenhuis about male strippers. The actor is happy with the positive reactions from the audience and does not care much about the usually negative reviews of newspapers.

“We make a film in which not everything is just as realistic, but that is not necessary either. We sell people the ultimate fantasy, isn’t that great fun? We don’t all have to make Shakespeare,” said the 32-year-old actor in conversation with NU.nl.

In Our Boys in Miami Bakkum’s character Jorrit continues his career as a stripper and he decides to open a strip club with his good friend and colleague Bas (Martijn Fischer) in Miami, in the US state of Florida. While building the club, the friends run into a number of problems and meet Jorrit Lola (Eva van de Wijdeven).

The first part of the film, which was released in 2016, is the second most visited film of that year. As is the case with many Nijenhuis films, the cinemas were full of visitors, but the reviewers were not too positive. Despite the criticism, a second film was released, and now that the recordings have been completed, the protagonists and director are already discussing a third film.

“Everyone wants to participate, but of course it depends on how the second part is received now. I am not talking about reviews, because I already know that it is all negative – that is always with Johan’s films. Maybe they have a kind of respect for the greatness of this film because the scenes are set up larger than before, but you already know that the reviewers don’t write well about this, but that doesn’t matter to us, they are not the target audience anyway. not even. I have never done that “, says Bakkum.

Eva van de Wijdeven wanted pole dancing

Van de Wijdeven very much wanted to work with Nijenhuis and that she could use her love of dance in her role made the project even more attractive for her: Lola is a pole dancer, something that the actress herself suggested. “Jim knew that I was a dancer and that is how they ended up with me. Johan was still looking for something special for Lola and I bluffed pole dancing. I did street dance and classical ballet for years, but I had hardly done anything about hanging on a pole. “

“I then trained hard to be able to do what Lola can do. After the first viewings of the film, I was asked if I was using a stand-in, which is a huge compliment, but no: I really am myself. We have it re-recorded five times and every time I went all out to make something beautiful out of it. After that I was completely exhausted, but I am so happy with the result “, the actress said.

Bakkum has no dance background, and although he already showed quite a few steps in the first part, he had to dance solo several times for part two and is standing in a large joint dance with more than fifteen professionals around him. “I really only thought: why am I doing this? I fart seven colors, despite all the rehearsals we had done.”

“I needed a button, because if I don’t believe in myself during such a big dance scene, then the viewer sees that. Fortunately, Johan knows very well how things stand and I know my strengths. I could let go of his nerves through him. “

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