She has a hard time watching herself on screen, misses crying on stage, and her relationship with her parents reminds her of "Seinfeld" • Actress Neta Gerty tries to survive the period
When was the last time you performed on stage?
"March 11 was the last play of 'The Return' in Shoham. In June we returned to the theater for two weeks, when allowed, and finished a rehearsal process for 'The Son' directed by Gilad Kimhi. We managed to put on a general rehearsal - which is like a show only without the general public - June 23rd at the Cameri Theater.We were told to invite whoever we wanted, so Peter, my parents and brother were there, and then we went back into the freeze.
"I also really miss the community, which is beyond the workplace. The theater is a community of people working together for a common goal that is greater than the sum of its parts. And I also miss some intimacy with myself, private moments with the story and character. There is an opportunity to touch some truth, and for me there is A holy name, something that is the opposite of secularism, and I miss that very much. "
When was the last time you surfed social media?
"Today, of course. I admit that I'm more prone to it now, and I'm really trying to abstain from Facebook. I feel like it's a fake contact platform, and it's hard for me. Since the epidemic I feel like the amount of Pike News and emotions there is so high. I'm there every day. It's a platform with less text, so it's a little less toxic. Obviously it's also toxic - but in a different way. I follow full of trash and I have to flip these non-infringing things, like the Kardashians, but I also follow museums like D’Orsay in Paris, the English and stunned Tate in New York, and also after Charlotte Ginsburg.
"Mostly it's voyeurism, and it makes me feel awful with myself, that I'm nothing and nothing compared to others. I think everyone feels that way, but it's definitely addictive because it's paralyzing. 'When I look at people scrolling a feed, I see how awful it is." .
When was the last time you talked to your parents?
"Yesterday. I talked to them on the phone and I laugh that they're a bit like Seinfeld's parents because they talk on the landline phone together or they'm on a speaker. My mother says that whoever calls the lines is always either me or her mother, who is 98. My parents, Ephraim and Ofra, Together from high school. They became an 11th grade couple at Ramla Lod High School and we have been celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary.
My mother from Lod and my father from Ramla and they are really opposites, but despite this, or because of this, there is great friendship and love between them.
I saw mutual respect and a lot of flexibility in the house, and I try to bring it to my home and apply their model. "
When was the last time you were in danger of death?
"In the Arad disaster in 1995. We all went to the festival and went to a Mashina show. I was very small physically, and already at the entrance I felt a crazy urge of bottlenecks closing in on me and I was really stressed. I had an anxiety attack and friends took me aside to breathe, and so on. We did not get into the inferno. My friends' parents later called my parents and said, 'What luck, if she had not suffered the anxiety attack, she too would have gone into terrible trouble.' I always tell my children a sentence from 'Hamlet', "And I believe in it. As a certified hypochondriac I listen to all the stories of illness and pain. My best friend, with me from third grade, is an intensive care nurse in the Corona ward in Kaplan. She tells me terrible stories, and I swallow everything."
When was the last time you said "I love you"?
"All the time, every day. This morning I told my son Eric when he came to cuddle with me, and to my daughter Lenny I also say and write. Today I wrote to her on WhatsApp 'I love you' when she was zoomed in, after she wrote me that she passed the test. I also tell Peter "It's every day, I'm one of those people who says it. It's easy for me to say that, and the kids and Peter also tell me back.
When was the last time you won an award?
"Last September, I won the Tel Aviv-Yafo Mayor Award from the Cameri Theater and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality.
This is an award that is presented every year for the outstanding roles, and this year they did it in a particularly exciting way, because the theater did not present from March, so the award is given for the past year.
I won the role in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', And it was exciting not to give up.
I felt a hug I so desperately needed.
I have been working in the Cameri for 16 years and I was so excited that when I said thank you it choked me.
"On the one hand, it moved me to meet the people I love and miss the most, and on the other hand, it was impossible to ignore the feeling of suffocation, which felt a bit like a funeral for the characters in whom you reduced life."
When was the last time you wore a uniform?
"I do not remember when I played in uniform, but I wore the IDF uniform 20 years ago.
I grew up in Gedera and Moshav Gaderot, in an environment where being the most combative was an important value.
I also knew I had one chance at life and wanted to experience the military in full force.
Check the limit of my ability.
I served as a sniper instructor and I remember that at first I had a very hard time, but over time I got stronger.
I don't see myself now running 21km with a vest and weapons, but it was part of my fulfillment myself, something I wanted to get through and win. "
When was the last time you spent time with the kids?
"When not? I'm a mother like everyone else. I try to do my best and over the years I got better at releasing them. I became a mother at 27, a time when there were not many actresses around me who are also mothers, and the girlfriends were not in the situation, just one. I cook "Because my children are not daycare children. I make schnitzels, flakes, pasta and couscous."
When was the last time you felt like you wanted to be anonymous?
"I have such a duality in me. At the beginning of the corona, with the wearing of the masks, there were moments where I enjoyed. I felt I could say texts and no one saw me, but it was completely gone and now I'm tired. I'm very careful about masks, but I enjoy being approached. "Those who are evacuated usually come to say a good word, and I like that very much. Keep going."
When was the last time you auditioned?
"All the time. I shoot and send. Recently Lenny filmed me and did the text with me and that's how I auditioned. There's something very lonely and unpleasant about it, because I perceive audition as a work process, which sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not, but it includes a meeting with a director, cast and staff. To me it's a work meeting, and when you send from home there's nothing creative about it, it's very, very technical.
"The audition for 'Fauda' was very special. I had a match (match stage) with Lior Raz, and I remember we did a kind of improvisation in front of director Assaf Bernstein, who already knew me as an actress, which really set me free. The meeting with Lior was exciting. There are moments. "Where all the preparations and masks go down and really touch, and that's where the diamond is always. When it happens between two people, it's something that moves the heart."
When was the last time you looked in the mirror?
"This morning, when I put on makeup. I feel beautiful in certain moments, there are moments like this and there are moments like that. It's very elusive, I do not walk around with the feeling that I'm beautiful and it does not fill me in any way. I can hardly watch TV and movies, and that's the big plus In the theater - that you do not have to watch for yourself. From Fauda I have only seen parts, I see when I have to, but it requires strength from me and it is a matter of suffering for me. I am really my own hard critic and sometimes I just prefer to avoid. I really like to play, but to see much less".
When was the last time you checked the current account?
"I'm an employee so I have a kind of safety net, but Peter's self-employed and we're both deep in this thing of bills. Really, if there's anything we need right now and it's acute, it's solving the unemployment benefit issue for the self-employed. Those who have paid huge sums to Social Security and income tax "And they have no safety net right now. The grants received are a drop in the ocean. I see a million unemployed, we are among them, and it's sad and hard to see."
When was the last time you listened to particularly helpful advice?
"Run, plant, do yoga. All kinds of people have given me this advice, and I try to apply, and it really helps me. I run in my head every day and it helps me, even if in practice I only wear the running clothes. To plant I really plant. My pastime with my mother from a young age was to go to nurseries, and I know names of plants and always brag about the trips I control.I love gardening, my mother bought me before closing a tray with seedlings to plant in the garden, and it does me good.Yoga I do, but not in a way "Every time I do, I think it saves my life, and then I forget to save my life."
When was the last time you heard a song you loved?
"All the time. The radio here is always on. I like to listen to radio and records, and the music is always here. Now, when there are no performances, you tell yourself how much we cling to the art, the music we hear all the time, the books I read or the series and movies I see. For me.
"Lenny, my daughter, teaches me music. She's the peak of the update and she has a varied taste, from Nirvana to Tyler, the creator. She plays electric guitar and also in the matter of playing and singing, but takes her time, and I really appreciate it. She knows how to connect. What's good for her and connected to herself. Eric learns drums, it comes from him. I studied classical piano seven years as a child, but it was a chore for me and I moved away from a melody, which is a pity. We are very careful that children's art comes only from desire and personal expression, not because "It's necessary, but it's entirely in the gardens. Peter's grandfather is a conductor and his father is a musician.
When was the last time you thought about
MeToo
?
"It's a welcome discourse, and it's good that it's here all the time. If there's one thing I think needs to be deduced from this period, it is that the statute of limitations needs to be changed. Right now the law stands at seven years and that's a ridiculous psychological aspect. Tell the truth to yourself. So if there's anything that needs to change, it's this law, after hearing so much evidence and stories floating in. I think if there is a legal change, it will create safer ground for women.
"I do not hide anything from Melanie. I do not expose her to atrocities, but she knows what is happening. She has heard, for example, about the rape case in Eilat, and she knows that there are traps in the network and one must be careful. I see the change in consciousness about her, she is much more aware And I'm open to talking about things that bother her, and I believe that awareness is the key. "
When was the last time you were on a set?
"Right after the first closure. I was photographed for the suspense series 'Bat Hashoter', based on a book by Liad Shoham, together with Maurice Cohen, Lior Ashkenazi, Tali Sharon and more. It was a fun production, a celebration. I have not played with Morris since 'Hamlet' in the theater, and in the series "We are a couple, which was fun and funny. I play a Lithuanian rabbi there, and I was happy to get back some of my personality and the opportunity to have experiences with a character who is very different from me."
When was the last time you cried?
"I usually cry on stage, but because that balance is upset, crying surprises me in unexpected places like in a traffic jam, because of road works, or when I shot a movie about a month and a half ago and was stung by a fire ant in a secret place. When there was no corona, I was more balanced, unloading on The stage and comes home clean, like after a good shower inside. "
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When was the first time you were hired?
"I've been working since I was 12, it was just my reality. I was a babysitter, I worked in apple picking, I was a municipal garden assistant, a waitress and a bartender. I loaded burgers at Burger Ranch and after a few months I was at the box office. The acting teacher who taught me, who I came to from Gedera especially twice a week, told me one day to come with him to the audition. I went into the room with him, and suddenly he said to the band, 'Look at me too.' The band told me to read the text, I made a surprising graph, and probably thanks to him. I was signed on the spot. "
Neta Gerti, 40, actress, resident of Tel Aviv, married to Peter Roth, musician, and mother of Helena (Lenny) and Eric. A graduate of Nissan Nativ Acting School, the 2004 Cameri actress, she has starred in movies and TV series. She currently plays in "The Cop's Daughter" on Teen Nick Channel, for Yes viewers
