for an actor to play. Savina, apart from being a genui- nely serious professional on set, delighted me when I saw that, regardless of how tough the day’s shoot was, it was obligatory for her to run 10 kilometres!” The Elegy of Laurel is a film that was directed by a Montenegrin director, stars a Croatian actor and a Slovenian actress, and was supported by Film Cen- ter Serbia. Does the future of film from these lands lie precisely in this kind of unification on the artistic front? “It is wonderful that Serbia, Croatia, Montene- gro and Slovenia are participating in one project. I think that art is something that unites us as human beings in every way, regardless of the lands we come from, re- gardless of the language we speak or the colour of our skin, because there are no borders in art.” We will also watch you soon in the Serbian Dynasty, the original version of which emptied the streets of the former Yugoslavia. Will you at least scratch the surface of that level of fame and success? “The remake of Dynasty is being filmed and I play the role of Blake’s lawyer. It was an extremely popular series in the ‘80s and I think our version will also be wat- ched. The topics it deals with are very similar today as they were back then, and often the same. It’s a good production, everything looks really world class.” Will you sing for us again? “I constantly sing for myself [laughs]. The Coro- na disrupted all of us. I performed a series of concerts with the klapa [Dalmatian acapella] in the region, and plan to do so again. I’m not a singer. I’m an actor, but I love to sing. During the time of this pandemic, I was al- so considering some new CD, so I’m slowly collecting material and ideas… And, after all, he who sings means no harm…”
FRANO LASIĆ THERE ARE NO BORDERS IN ART
Over recent years, we’ve been watching you perform in a large number of extremely diverse television series. How much did
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you enjoy the change of your working environment and the fact that you play the lead role in a film with a pronounced artistic character? “Every change is enjoyable for every actor. The es- sence of acting is actually in changing roles and chara- cters. It is clear to everyone that, when you embark on the “adventure” of an art house film, you expect a diffe- rent audience that isn’t as large as in the case of com- mercial films, but which is more intellectually and cine- matically shrewd. Working on such projects is a special challenge and a great pleasure.” You acted alongside Slovenian actress Savina Ger- šak, who we haven’t seen on the big screen for a long time. How was that experience? “Savina played my wife in the film and we had won- derful collaboration. Of course, through long conversa- tions with the director, we constructed our characters together and formed a picture of two people who, af- ter spending years living together, for various reasons, reach a dead-end that is difficult to exit, so they each handle such a life challenge in their own individual way. But these kinds of characters are actually a challenge
Rad na art filmu je poseban izazov i veliko zadovoljstvo Working on art film is a special challenge and a great pleasure
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