She's a jealous character ("but also accommodating"), dreams of a dramatic role like Shalom Asaig in "Manaich" ("You don't give me a chance, and it eats me up inside") and reads most of the reviews about her ("They are very hard sometimes") • Little Schwartz lives on the edge between laughter and crying
"I'm a better dramatic actress than a comedian, because I'm the most sensitive there is."
Little Schwartz
Photography:
Eric Sultan, makeup: Niv Boguslawski
When was the last time you exercised?
"A week and a half ago. I do Pilates twice a week - or rather, try to do it twice a week, but it does not happen anymore. The last time was a week ago, and I do walks too. I do not like fitness, it annoys me, but I have walks "I ran away from home. I join walking groups to escape. I catch a ride on them."
When was the last time you said "I love you"?
"Every day. I tell my daughters, Yahli and Alma, and my husband Eyal when he deserves it. The truth is it depends on my mood, but I tell girls every day, and I have one daughter who also tells me back for fun, and that's Yahli. Alma tells me she loves me When she needs something. "
When was the last time you received a compliment?
"Yesterday. I lost a little weight because I maintain a proper diet, so I was told 'see you lose weight' and 'you are fine'. The highlight was that my agent told me, 'There is an audition for a 45-year-old woman who has a 16-year-old child and they said you were not suitable because you You look too young. 'What bullshit, I have wrinkles!
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I do not touch sweets, only water, and I lowered bread - and I am sick of bread.
Now only wholemeal bread.
It's hard, but it started with stomach problems, so I'd already taken advantage of the situation and lost 8kg. Now I'm afraid to gain weight, because I'm in fashion productions, and you know Sports Illustrated should be careful of me, I'm on the way.
"It's fun to look good.
As a comedian I think I should not look good, but unfortunately the rabbi, people also look at how I look.
To tell someone that she has lost weight is a compliment, and now there was an attack on Jordan Jerby who complimented Shani Klein who lost weight (following Klein's post, Jerby complimented her and was criticized for the compliment 'Lose weight a lot'; Shaz). I did not understand the attack on her. Shani Klein worked hard to look like that, and it's flattering to anyone who's told him he looks good, whether she's thin or not. And enough of the hypocrisy, women like to be told that, and it's not against fat women. Jordan just wanted to compliment a beautiful girl, and Shani is beautiful. "Anyway, full or thin, so come on, give her a compliment. Everything is looking to pounce today. Enough, Hales."
When was the last time you laughed?
"Yesterday. We laughed at the filming for the 'Stand-up NATION' program. We filmed until 1 at night, and I both laughed and cried, because I am a very crying person and very funny. Both together. Eyal will tell you that I am a crying person and the most dramatic there is, because I am on the edges All the time.
"For me, I studied acting for three years because I wanted to be an actress.
I rolled into a stand-up and it became my lifeline because I failed after school.
In acting school I was in the lead roles, but then it didn’t happen.
I thank God for the stand-up and I'm happy to be back in the game and coming back to it now.
I have a longing to perform.
All this zoom is awfully hard and not fun, you do not see an audience.
I also performed in front of cars, yards, everything was horrible.
It's hard in levels and I can no longer, but must make a living then do.
This situation is really very difficult.
enough".
When was the last time you wanted something and couldn't get it?
"A week ago. I wanted a role for the film and I couldn't get it. I also wanted a campaign and it did not happen, but it will happen again. I auditioned for the film and thought I could do the role well, so I was terribly disappointed, terrible. Anyone who saw me do a dramatic role was shocked. I think I'm a better local dramatic actress, because I'm the most sensitive person there is. I'm first and foremost an actress, but I feel like I'm not given a chance, and it sucks me and eats me in. That's why I write to myself, and when I'm offered a dramatic role I'll tell them, 'I'll think about it.'
'The next thing I do is play a dramatic role.
I'm writing myself something like this now.
Comedy already knows I know how to do.
It is said that the comedic actors are the best, and when I saw Shalom Asaig in 'Manaich' I told him, 'I want to too'.
This is my next big step and it's time to do it.
"There is a fear in directors sometimes, because you are categorized as a comedian, and there is something very superficial about it. It annoys me very much that they do not come out of these stencils. It is much more interesting to me when a comedian does drama. I am very interested, and Guri Alfi does beautiful roles. "That comedians are the best, and also that the public wants to see them not just as comedians. So if the directors are scared, I will write for myself. I don't need favors."
When was the last time you missed?
"All the time. I miss my father, Menachem, and it's a constant longing that does not pass. It's very hard to live with emptiness, as if half of you are gone. These are longings that break you, and I cry when I remember him, which happened last night. Sometimes I sit and fail. Get up from longing. He died a year and a half ago of cancer, sarcoma, and he was the closest person to me and Dad was amazing. I would talk to him every day. I remember how only two and a half years ago I was happy when we were told Dad would be fine after he had a tumor removed. It was A year before he passed away and I felt in the clouds when he was free of cancer. Then the disease came back and it was terrible. I miss telling him the little things and remember how proud he was of me. There is a song by Hava Alberstein where she sings' and on Saturday morning And Dad does not ask: Was there an audience? ', So that's exactly how I feel. I have a mother, Irish, who will be healthy until 120, but Dad is missing and it has no age, because even at 45 you feel orphaned. Yahli said to me,' You are big, What are you crying about? '
"But Dad is Dad. It's a rescue that I have the childhood."
When was the last time you did something fun with the girls?
"They will tell you that they are not doing anything fun with me. About two weeks ago we were on vacation in a B&B and did a route there, we walked together in the creek. I am the most mother, no one believes how motherly I am. I am the most on them and I laugh at it, but give them a relaxing massage Every night. That's how they fall asleep. I'm anxious and worried about them, so I'm on them for 24 hours and most importantly they eat. I'm Polish, but I'm also a non-standard mother, because I'm not home much. I'm a mother who is a little friend and a little disturbed, a mother who makes leaks As they say and also a cool, familiar mother. My publicity does not always go well for them. When they get things it is good and nice for them, but sometimes when we are on the street it takes hours to walk with me because I am photographed and on the side.
"After the first birth I experienced depression and felt very hard, But when I went to mothers meetings with babies I realized that there are full of women in my situation.
Following the depression I wrote the series 'Girlfriends' and realized that it's okay not to be an honest mom.
Yes I connected with the girl and also breastfed, but motherhood did not come to me naturally and easily.
Moms always tell how easy and fun it is, and I thought my life was ruined.
"On the other hand, the girls brought me the best career I've had. I said to Lake Rodberg, 'You'll see what happens to your career and life, it's crazy happiness,' but I only discovered it after a year. I was not happy honestly, and in fact to this day I am not all Time is happy.
"The girls always ask me who I like more, and I like both of them in general, but need to see who brings me more results (laughs).
The great one wants to enroll in an art school, and I very much hope that they will not go into this field, because only the one who excels in it succeeds, and also needs a lot of luck, more than talent.
I'm scared of them, but if it's inevitable, what can I tell them?
No?"
When was the last time you felt like you were on the verge of collapse?
"It happens to me every Monday and Thursday. I'm a person on the verge of collapse all the time. So take Ciprofloxacin, or another pill, or a glass of alcohol, and try to relax. At work, it calms me down, and when I'm not at work I want to die. I used to take psychiatric pills, and full People have sent me messages following this.Yes, I get help, everyone has something to help them, one is meditation, one is running, and some people need pills.No be ashamed of it.We are under very hard pressure, and me balls and sports do well.If "I could without I would prefer, but I can not. Half a country takes pills, ask first who does not take."
When was the last time you read a review?
"I read most of the reviews I had. I no longer read everything, but I used to read and take it hard. Today it no longer interests me, it's more important to me that the public love me than the critics. Once someone wrote: 'Forgive the audience, I like Little Schwartz'. . I'm not one of those critics caressed them and dumped them. the companies' praised there and realized that I create, but the positive reviews started only two years ago. always makes me feel good to get a good review, but I am of these reviews are very harsh with them sometimes.
"It took time Understand who I am, who Little is.
I came to the corner at Yair Lapid's rough, and people did not understand that I came out of nowhere and it took a moment to get used to me.
Today my status has changed, and the reviews have followed.
I do not have to convince them that they will write an article about me, understand who I am.
So maybe 'Stand-up NATION' is not considered an elite, but to do stand-up I know and I do the hardest thing in the world.
I do not know what is considered elite, but I make people happy and funny and I agree with that.
Today I know that I write and create, I have won international awards and I deserve it.
So what?
To be modest?
I deserve".
When was the last time you went to the doctor?
"Ask when I'm not going to the doctor. Last Wednesday I was at the gastro doctor's, but it's because I have a hobby of going to the doctors. I'm like an old woman, I love doctors, and if I can come to any more doctor, I'm happy. It's sitting on fear of cancer. I have cancer and I have a bad legacy in this section, so I keep following. I'm much more than a hypochondriac. One doctor told me, 'I've seen a lot already, but like you have not yet', and my family doctor really asks me not to come. He said he would not know when "I have a real problem. Most of the doctors can't stand me, the Assuta call center can't see me, and even the callers already know my name well."
When was the last time you talked to people on the street?
"Yesterday. We're stand-up comedians, so when do you not talk to me on the street? People think we work for them, that I owe them something. In reality they say, 'How beautiful are you, what do you do on TV?'. Lucky I look good in reality. I'm the most popular and the most Accessible there, so no wonder they come to talk to me. I also develop conversations, love it, but there are moments when I say stop. Nice when you say good things, but when you exaggerate it is not pleasant. I am from Kiryat Yam, from Kiryat Yam, and I am a very simple person. No "I do not understand and do not connect to this thing of being famous and inaccessible. My agent says of me, 'You are not a diva, you are a Ziva.' This is not Hollywood here, this is Israel."
When was the last time you were jealous of someone?
"Every day. I envy Gal Gadot, envy her and cheer for her and want her to live, and I envy everyone. I'm a jealous person. It's a terrible trait, but I always want what others have. Everyone is a hypocrite and a liar and everyone is jealous, bullshit who told you not to. Everyone is jealous. You always want more. Why am I not in Hollywood? Why am I not playing a dramatic role? Why do I not have this house? It's awful and I'm working on it, but I can 't stop. On the other hand, I'm cheering too. "Between artists and we will be something else, a real paragon. But it will not stay behind, we will return to the groove very quickly. It is a corona paragon and then we will step on each other again."
When for the first time?
When did you first work?
"I babysat for children already in the eighth grade, at the age of 14. The first child I kept is still alive, which means I hope for him yes, and I'm sure he carries traumas. I was a street puppet and a street sculptor. I worked not because I was short, but because I was educated to work, to have my own money, and to this day I work to have my own money. I am a very hardworking person, seriously. I love to work and want to have money in retirement. "I'm thinking of how to make money now so I have a future, and I never wanted to do anything else. I love what I do, and that's what I always want to do."
Little Schwartz \\ 44 years old, creator, actress, comedian and stand-up comedian.
Resident of Tel Aviv, married to Eyal and mother to Yahli (11) and Alma (8).
She studied acting at the Kibbutzim Seminary and broke out in 2007 in Yair Lapid's program.
Participated in series and TV shows, and in 2013 created the series "Friendship" (Channel 10).
She currently appears in the stand-up Bezum and participates in "Stand-up NATION", on Tuesdays on the 13 network
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