Mariana Prachařová (28) comes from famous families of actors. His parents are Dana Batulková and David Prachař, brother Jakub Prachar. She was destined to become a child star herself, but she missed her friends. To this day, they are as important to her as her family.
The first thing I thought when I saw her was, “Oh my god, all mom!” Dana Batulkova he won’t deny it, and it’s meant as a compliment, but I didn’t want to repeat myself. Because almost everyone tells her when they meet her! The blondie is a successful influencer, she has a popular podcast, she loves to travel (and also studies tourism management) and in Good news series go back to acting.
What’s the best or worst thing you’ve ever read about yourself in the media?
The most curious article came out when I was in elementary school. In some tabloids they wrote “Mariana Prachařová, sex slave”. My brother and mother carefully showed it to me so I knew she worked. At the moment everyone loved Twilight and I wrote I Love Robert Pattinson all over it. But my classmate called the media saying I was obsessed with him. Finally, the article talked about the fact that I would like to lose my virginity to Pattinson. And I? I was happy because we played together!
When has the avenue interfered the most in your life?
When my parents divorced, I was very young and didn’t notice it. Most likely during the time the brother Divorced Agate, you learned terrible things about the family and it was unpleasant. But I can keep my distance, I know this from childhood and I don’t read it. And as a family, we know what we think of each other, so we make fun of those articles.
How would your mother describe you?
I’m probably a good daughter, organized… My family is all chaotic and I’m the one who needs order in life, to have everything planned. This can be difficult for those around me – I’m a little boss and it has to be my way. And I hope she says I’m friendly.
You have a very close relationship with your mother. Has it always been like this or were there times when you didn’t need to see each other?
We have always been close, but we have to try, both sides have to work on the relationship. Especially when you grow up. As a child, it’s natural to spend time with your parents. But I think we shouldn’t forget them even in adulthood, it’s good to have shared experiences. Even today I travel with my parents, we go for culture. Of course we get angry and fight. Sometimes they need to teach me, but I have my own head.
You even moved in with your mom during the pandemic.
True, and the curious thing was that her brother had also moved in with her. We’re 11 years apart, so we didn’t typically grow up together as siblings, and we just felt it. Mum has a shed, a garden, and it was much more pleasant than being alone in the apartment. But at the time we didn’t know it would take so long, we ended up staying with her for a year. It was a great test.
What have you discovered about yourself?
My brother and I ended up signing things in the fridge, and we ended up asking for little things as well. But it was very nice, the evenings together, the barbecues…
Your father has three children with his second wife, Linda Rybova, and you are close to your half-siblings. Has it always been like this?
I was little when my first sister was born, it probably hurt me a little that my father had another child, but since my brother was much older, I took the half brothers as my siblings and still have a lot of fun with them to this day. We travel, we spend time together.
Speaking of relationships, how would your friends describe you?
Girls like to joke that I’m a little Napoleon, that they must be mine. Which also means that I like to plan a schedule for everyone and usually don’t have to worry about a thing. Thanks to me, we get together more often and do something.
This confirms my feeling that you care about relationships.
Care is important. And I have friends from elementary school. It’s true that during the pandemic we realized how important it is to think about who to invest your time in. I’m already at an age where I’m tired of bringing new people into my life and explaining my whole life story to them. A few friends with whom I want to deepen my relationships are “enough” for me.
You’re quite a renaissance person, you do a lot… What would you put in the work column?
They ask me often and I don’t know exactly. I am workaholic, I like more than one thing and I can’t choose one. It is probably the possibilities that our generation has. I’m an influencer, a YouTuber, I do a podcast, I sing here and there for fun, sometimes I play somewhere.
And the most profitable area?
Definitely social networks, Instagram. Is a real pleasure. It’s my diary, which I definitely didn’t open to make money. And I’m relatively open there, I don’t play games at all.
How did you end up with a friend? Hell Navratilova decided to turn their coffee chats into a Sarcastic Coffee Podcast?
It was a terrible coincidence. Basically at the same time, we wrote to each other that we’d like to try a podcast and that neither of us wanted to tackle it alone. So we decided to combine it. We sat down, we have a similar view of the world.
What is sarcastic coffee?
Our podcast is perceived as a girls talk, people feel like they are having coffee with us. We never wrote a script, we didn’t interrupt our conversations in any way, and that’s what people liked the most, they take us as friends. We’re all about relationships, guys, Tinder. We share personal experiences, we also open theme of the psychewhich has taken a major hit during covid, we give the sense that listeners are not alone in this.
What do your parents say about you confiding in 160,000 people who look up to you?
We had to explain to my father for a while what the benefits of social networks are, but he didn’t deal with it in the sense of forbidding me from sharing anything. On the contrary, he sometimes asks me to re-share a theater show for them, for example. It’s never been a problem with my mom either, normally I film her, vlog her where she appears.
Why did you stop acting?
I used to shoot as a kid, then I got out and stopped going to castings. I missed my friends. I was filming Horákovy, dubbing, but my friends were going somewhere together after school, and I had work waiting for me. In retrospect, I think how stupid I was to walk out of it, because it’s incredibly hard to follow. Now I’m back to dubbing after a long time, I’m having a lot of fun. And slowly I’m also getting back to playing, which is great.
You are a big travel lover. Where did you like it best and which country do you still want?
I fell in love with NYC. I’m happy there. And I discovered the beauties of Scandinavia – Sweden, Denmark – and I dream of Norway and Iceland.
Even if you like to travel with your mother, sisters or friends, recently you have also traveled alone…
I really enjoyed it. I really wanted to hang out somewhere, but I have free work hours and my friends not so much. I went to Hamburg and Denmark, a Odenseand decided to make it an annual tradition.
What has traveling alone enriched you, what has it taught you? Did you miss the company?
You rely only on yourself, you will discover your limits. But do what you want and don’t look back, which is ideal for me as a commander.
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