After years in Paris and New York, the actress returned to Bulgaria to participate in a series
Vera Yordanova and Valentin Ganev, who are husbands in the series PHOTO: BTV
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The Bulgarian-Finnish model and actress Vera Yordanova appeared on the Bulgarian screen for the first time. Her debut is in the series “Scars” on BTV. The role in which she enters is that of a powerful woman who has endured many difficulties to reach a rich and comfortable lifestyle. Her heroine Vera Dermendzhieva turns her back on her family just to make her dreams come true.
Vera Yordanova with Irina Atanasova (Sylvia) during the filming of the series PHOTO: BTV
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The actress lives in New York and the team of “Scars” found her quite difficult to offer her a role in the series. She was approved to participate in it through video casting. So he returned to Bulgaria and for three months filmed episodes of the new family drama.
The actress with her son Keeran PHOTO: Personal Instagram Profile
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While Vera’s parents, musicians by profession, toured Scandinavia, she was born in Finland. Although she was breastfed with music, she never did it professionally. She loves art, painting, playing the piano, but her dream is to be an actress. So he enrolled in acting classes in Los Angeles, where he later lived, and began appearing in castings. So her dream of going to the movies came true.
Vera Yordanova has participated in various Finnish series and movies. Her first big role was in Hostel 2 – “Hotel of Horrors 2”. The horror is directed by Eli Roth and produced by Quentin Tarantino himself.
“We shot for three months in Prague. It was interesting to see how Hollywood productions are made, it was a very good experience. “
The Bulgarian actress managed to meet the legendary filmmaker shortly after the shooting of the film. “Tarantino and I met in the studio when we were recording the film, then we met at the premiere. We sat with the whole team and talked. Quentin Tarantino is extremely talented, a genius, it can be seen in his speech. A great gentleman, a very nice and good man. ”
The premiere of “Hotel of Horrors 2” is in 2007, but so far the film enjoys great interest from horror fans.
Her meeting with Quentin Tarantino is not the only one with world-famous personalities. Vera Yordanova’s life brings her many pleasant and memorable acquaintances. At the age of 14 Vera, very tall and thin, had an offer to start working as a model. She agrees to make extra money in the summer, and her decision opens the door to the world. “I love to travel, I’m interested in getting to know new cultures – the kitchen is a part that I’m curious about. I like to collect little stories such as why, for example, french fries in English are called French fries, ”says the actress. Only 17 years old, she moved to Paris for five years. She has lived in Barcelona, in South Africa – Cape Town, in Italy, Latin America, in recent years in the United States – Los Angeles, New York, Miami. Thanks to her work as a model, she met fashion greats such as Karl Lagerfeld, models Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer. “I met a lot of great people in fashion, such as the great photographer Helmut Newton, which was a great moment for me,” explains Vera.
For her, the work of the model is like that of the athlete. “You start young, you have to be strong because there is a lot of criticism around you, you grow up quickly and become independent, you also need discipline. A model’s career ends early, as with athletes. There are also many dangers, so you have to be careful. For me, upbringing at home played a huge role, because I was still alone in the big world.
Vera Yordanova’s other great passion, besides painting, listening to music, playing the piano, is cooking. In general, he loves “all things related to creating some emotion in other people.” The actress now has no free time and hopes that after the shooting of “Scars” she will have the opportunity to devote herself more to cooking. “I want to dedicate myself to this gift of mine because it really gives me a lot. I love everything that makes time fly. When you don’t know where you are, what time it is, whether you are hungry or not, it means that you are doing something nice and meaningful. ”
A few years ago, Vera published her own cookbook in Finland, in which she described 100 recipes and several stories from her life. They are related to the cuisine of the countries in which she lived.
The actress’ passion for cooking comes from her grandmother. When Vera is 6-7 years old, her parents leave her with her grandmother in Bulgaria to look after her. “She was a vegetarian and made amazing dishes, a little different from the others. He understood what we now call healthy eating, he practiced it back then. I got my first inspiration from her. Then, when I was 12-13 years old, I started cooking on my own, making pies and various other things. My mother is also an amazing cook and makes me the best food in the world. We love to gather at parties for some holidays, we both think together about the menu and what to prepare for the guests. This is our way to have fun, “says the actress.
Her favorite place to this day is her mother’s house in the village of Kapitan Dimitrievo, between Pazardzhik and Peshtera. Next to it there is a nice path from where you can see the Rhodopes. She ran there as a child and now leads her 4-year-old son Kieran. They both like to walk in the fields with lavender and poppies. There she often photographed him and regularly told him stories about her childhood. “Here, when my mother was little, she ran regularly, she rode the bike on this hill,” but I don’t know if she still understands what it means for my mother to be small, “says the actress.
The boy still does not know Bulgarian well, because his father is Colombian and they speak Spanish and English at home. According to Vera Yordanova, her son does not look like her because she is an introverted person, and he is very social and not ashamed of anyone. “He is always the noisiest in kindergarten, he is hyperactive, he likes to paint, he is interested in cooking, he knows the planets, he is very curious,” she says. As a child, however, the actress was also a naughty child who played with boys, climbed trees and made whites.
After the end of the three-month period of filming the series “Scars”, Vera will certainly miss him. She will also miss the colleagues she works with. Her husband on screen is the actor Valentin Ganev, Anastasia Lyutova is Vera’s sister, Klimentina Fartsova and Balena Landzheva take on the roles of her daughters, and Ivo Arakov plays her adopted son Nikola. But then comes the other big excitement – how it will be received by the audience. “After ‘Scars’, my plan is to take a break, stay in Bulgaria, enjoy this beautiful spring that is coming, and then I will see what projects I will start,” says Vera Yordanova.
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