When was the last time you were in psychotherapy?
"I've been in on-and-off therapy almost my whole life. It helps me a lot, and I'm fascinated by the idea of therapy. In my programs I do not feel that what I do is similar to psychological therapy, because I'm a journalist. A journalist dances a complex dance in front of the people he interviews. I want to discover new things about them; and on the other hand, I do want to keep them in a sense. It's myself who keeps my interviewees. However, there are of course the difficult questions, which sit on some public interest.
"I came from a documentary. It's my television base to be in the field in situations with people. That's how I started on Channel 10, and that's how I did in 'Fact.' ".
When was the last time you thought about your weight?
"It's always a struggle. I honestly think, and I thought about it many years ago, before it became the spirit of the time, that television is something that is in the homes of all human beings and therefore all human beings should be on television - all types and all sexes. Going through this light strip from the makeup room to the studio, you know, sculpting, shrinking, gym.I'm not underestimating - aesthetics are important and important to look good when a lot of people see you, but there is still room for everyone, of all sizes and genders.
"On the other hand, for me at least, yes it is important for me to be healthy and be with my kids for as many years as possible, so I work on it all the time. When I cook, I cook healthy. I do sports twice a week like clockwork with my coach, Max, which is the thing The best Assi Ezer has given me in life. I hate doing sports, I hate it. I'm 15 minutes late and always on the finger to cancel, but I do twice a week. I do not diet, but in recent years I have reduced sugar quite dramatically. I did not have "I understand how much sugar is a poison that is found in everything. This reduction made me feel very good."
When was the last time you thought about loneliness?
"When I was with Hani, in the movie 'Exceptions' about loneliness. Tal Freifeld, the corporation's VP of content, told us 'I want you to do something about loneliness.'
I told her it was such an abstract and complex subject, and I was afraid it would be depressing, but it turned out to be ingenious.
"Loneliness preoccupies us all, this is the subject in the knowledge of the period. There are ministers today for matters of loneliness, and that interested me from the universal places. I know what it is to be lonely, I have been lonely many times. When I was single I felt the loneliness.
"We brought all kinds of angles of loneliness: teenagers with social anxiety who go to the Cyclamen organization, which teaches them social skills; we brought Ida, who volunteers at ARN but knows what it is like to return to an empty house; And we brought in Hani, who has had dozens of fertilization attempts, and for 15 years she has invested in the idea of becoming a mother.
"Hani is a one-time documentary heroine. As the pregnancy progressed she just prayed he would hold on, and felt very full and not alone. But there were times, mostly because of the corona, that she felt very, very alone. Then everything drained for the day of birth. Hani's birth scene She's a scene of the docu-god.
"It was from these rare moments that the film does not matter to me at all. No matter what comes out in the end, I am with her in this moment. There was such great anxiety that it will pass in peace, because it may be the last attempt and this woman must be a mother. On the other hand, even after I had a baby girl, I imagine there were moments of loneliness, as we all know, sometimes when you are a parent you feel the loneliest in the world.
"I bring myself up, and sometimes I also crash because of it. In the chapter on eating disorders, for example, how much I learned the subject and met the heroines, I did not understand where I was putting myself. This place penetrated my soul, the heroines entered my heart, and I crashed. So I could not watch the episode on TV. I felt so exposed. On the other hand, it's not one hundred percent me either. I remember when I was single and dating, I wanted a show called '24 Hours' that I presented on Channel Eight. "With Fuente every half minute, like on TV. I tried to explain to them that on TV it's my edited version, and in life I'm a raw material. TV still distills you."
When was the last time you missed someone?
"When I filmed Danny Rosenberg's movie, 'The Death of the Cinema and My Dad Too.' And the son insists on filming and filming, because he feels that as long as there is a cinema and as long as he is filming, his father will not die.
"When we made the film and I suddenly had a father, I realized how many years I did not say that word, father. It was not painful, it was fun. A good word, father. When I came home from filming I realized that I miss my father terribly, who was a tough Ukrainian.
"I was 21 when my father died of a heart attack. I miss him, but because so many years have passed life is doing its thing. This film gave me back that sense of security that there is someone above you, who cares about you. I learned to be my own father, but also some "I miss him. By the way, I also learned how great producer-actor Mark Rosenbaum is."
When was the last time you spent time with family?
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow ... there is something in Corona that is hell on the one hand, because parents of small children are so hard to jungle anyway when suddenly there is no frame and everything collapses, and on the other hand there is something in it that forces you to be with them, and for a long time. Finds it fun, that they are cute and interesting.Many careerists have discovered in Corona that it is no less interesting, fascinating and rewarding to be with family.It is a very significant discovery.
"I like to do nonsense with my kids: eight-year-old Zohar and four-year-old Eviatar. That's the thing I love most in the world. We do role-playing games - there are all kinds of characters that only my son understands, that make him funny, things that can be done with kids and a dad whose imagination explodes. Even with my daughter I like to make up characters, to run amok.I'm infantile, crazy about stuffed animals: cookies, cookie monster, elmo, kippy.I have a dream to present a children's program, but I'm not sure I will stand it happily.I, with two stuffed animals next to me "I was ready for a nice butterfly, too."
When was the last time you cooked?
"This week. Since the closures, where my wife worked and I didn't, I started cooking a lot with the kids. I put up a pot of meatballs with rice, vegetables, peas, carrots and potatoes. We baked pies. I did a cupcake workshop with them."
When was the last time you felt helpless?
"In the last military operation. This feeling that you are going down to the shelter with your children, or that wherever you go, danger awaits you. I felt really lost, frightened and anxious about the fate of this place, that I love it with love of soul.
"Like all of us, we understood much more what it means to live in the Gaza Envelope. We realized that we need to start admiring and helping them, and start stepping up the items on what is happening there. Not just in days of war, but in routine."
When was the last time you received a tempting offer?
"One night, at one o'clock in the morning, I received a message on Facebook from Shirley Moshioff: 'I wrote you an episode in the new season of a very important man. Do you want to read?'. I went to bed - I sat and read, and I was very excited. She touched there with her talent something deep in the sadness of masculinity, a man who gets lost at that age. He can do the same scene in forty-seven different options. I have never seen anything like it. Such flexibility - intellectually and physically. I stood and wondered how I would play next to this thing, and he told me 'just be in the situation'.
"I was also offered reality, but I will never go. Because I'm a documentary filmmaker - and I will not expand - I will not make reality shows."
When was the last time you aspired to change reality?
"First of all I really appreciate people who do it, like Guy Lerer or Haim Etgar, but I think we at 'Exceptions' also showed things around which there was some connection of shame or silence. The chapter on postpartum depression, I did not understand what a taboo it is What a taboo it is for a mother to sit in front of the camera and say, 'I do not love my child, I'm sorry I'm a mother, and that's okay. "I opened Facebook and there was madness. The cell phone crashed, hundreds of messages. It feels like in these places, on our way, we do touch something. I don't know if we change reality, but raise a curtain over taboos. I know a lot of women felt less alone after this episode."
When was the last time you felt like an adult?
"When I realized I did not know who Margie was. I saw something, and I told my daughter all the time talking about Noa Kirl and Margie, what is Margie like? After she was shocked that I do not know who it is I learned the material, but it's deeper. At some age you lose touch To the culture of the young, and that's fine. I have no problem with that. I started at the GLC with articles about Amichai.
There was Naomi Shemer, there was Yossi Banai, and there was a moment when I found myself moving from poets-writers-actors to reality stars.
It does not interest me, except for the reality of poetry. "
When was the last time you thought about another career?
"I really like what I do. It intrigues me. The only way not to suffer is to understand that everything changes all the time, I learned it from the Dali to her mother. I have no expectations for the future. If I suddenly find myself elsewhere, that's it. I want to be the industry "I've wanted to play more: in series, in movies, in theater, but I don't have the courage I think."
When was the last time you checked the current account?
"Every day, because I am a father, and a son to a father who was independent, and there were times he was very successful and there were times less. Dad had a hardware store, and all my life I went through this roller coaster of successes, failures and debts. Today I am a father, I have a family, and I I want everyone to live well, but money is not my engine. I do not care about cars, I do not have a license; I do not care about clothes. I want my children to have everything they need and everything that will reach their potential and ours as a family, but not brands. Thank God "There is no talk of brands at home, it will not come in. No one here has dreamed of a villa in Savyon or a Lamborghini."
When for the first time?
When did you first feel famous?
"In 2013, we actually aired the article about Sharon Bloch, the single mother from Hadera, who adopted a Sudanese boy named Ram, and then his grandmother came from Australia and asked for him. Sharon was his foster family, and the court ruled he would go to the biological grandmother when Sharon was a month old. Until the farewell. The morning after it aired I was mentally shattered, but I went out to the grocery store. Near our house was a construction site and all the Sudanese workers, everyone, came out of it and hugged me. I did not understand what was happening, because they said almost nothing. ? ', And just put his hands on me. I can not describe in words how I felt.
"There's something terribly superficial about the word 'famous.' "An Israeli with a Sudanese child, and everything is fine. This is Sharon Bloch's great, who opened his heart and gave him her soul. It will be an unforgettable Israeli story."
Roni Koven / 42 years old, journalist, creator, director and actor. He lives in Tel Aviv, is married and has two children. In 2006, he joined the "Fact" program at Keshet 12 as a director. His new play, "Intimacy," was recently staged at the Beit Lessin Theater.
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