"I felt like a queen everywhere - just not at my house" | Israel today

Tomorrow in a huge issue of Shishvat:

At the age of 62, Hani Nachmias is celebrating life.

She is a new grandmother, who sees grandchildren as the greatest gift she has ever received, she enjoyed Corona after almost thinking of retiring from the stage, and she lives alone, having separated from her husband for the past 22 years.

In an interview with the "Shishvat" supplement, which will be published tomorrow, Nachmias talks for the first time about the decision to break up the long relationship, and about the difficulty she experienced on stage just before the Corona virus took the screen down the theater.

The broken straw

"When people break up, it's always the end of something," says Nachmias. I accept them, and I could not answer. But then an seemingly insignificant incident happened between us, which he smashed, smashed. I know how straw can break a camel's back. "

Farewell after so many years is probably not a simple step.

"I think the biggest problem was that I came from a house where they made me feel like a queen. To be a queen, to me, is to feel that you have a back, that you have someone to lean on, that there is someone who will listen to you, accept you in any situation, comfort you and strengthen you. "I felt all this among my friends, within the nuclear family and at my job - just not at home. Now I am a queen at home as well."

Before the Corona did you really consider retiring from the stage?

"Yes, because I felt I was no longer having fun. What I once thought was my whole existence and my whole being, my source of life and oxygen, began to be a tight, stressful and stinging suit that no longer pleases me. The illegal sport of four shows a day seems crazy to me "We became a nightmare. What I once did with great joy has become a form of torture. So I asked myself: Why? I do not owe it existentially, and I want to choose to do things that do me good."

Nachmias, who has been on stage since the age of 10, finally returned to the stage, and today plays at the Habima National Theater in two major productions: "Spanish Orchard" and "Mama Mia".

On the big screen, she closes a circle with the role she played about 50 years ago, in "Theater from the Land of Oz" - Hannah in "Hannah's Shabbat Dress".

Hannah's mother

Today, she plays Hannah's mother in the new Israeli film, which is based on the story of Yitzhak Schweiger-Damiel, in which classic Israeli childhood songs are embedded alongside songs by Bialik, Avshalom Cohen and Ehud Manor.

Along with Nachmias, little Michal (Hannah), Michael Givati, Shiran Sandel, Noel Berkovich, Sabina, Dorit Renov, Haim Zanati, Shlomo Vishinsky, Lauren Eliyahu and Yafit Atias play.

How does it feel to play Hannah's mother this time?

"I see it as one thing: a song I recorded at the age of 10, 52 years ago, called 'Who Loves the Sabbath,' is a song that lives on to this day, and it's not obvious."