When was the last time you learned something new?
"I now play 'Connected to Life,' as a replacement for Shmulik Vilozny in the lead role, who is a man who is paralyzed all over his head except the head. "To play a paralyzed person is a frightening experience. You understand that you do not have a body and learn to work only with the head and mouth."
When was the last time you were very excited?
"When Lana, my little daughter, went to first grade this year. She is a very comfortable and flowing girl, with a lot of self-confidence. Smart, very beautiful, sociable and flourishing. She is already dancing and the stage germ is there, alongside being on an artistic gymnastics team and very loving and invested in it Everything came to her naturally and well.
"I did not imagine that I would have three children, but I did not want to have an only son, like me. My first wife (actress Anat Waxman) has two children, and Anna, the third daughter born to me and my second wife Maya, was not planned.
Is something that came from life.
Me and Maya, who is 39, have been together for ten years.
We met in the theater and it was clear she would want children.
It was not easy, but I flowed with it and I have no regrets.
I need a family.
When I got divorced I did not know what would happen, but I really missed the life of the couple.
I was 47 and saw that I needed a relationship.
"Today I am a very involved father, even though because Anna is Maya's only daughter she wants to do certain things her way and I'm having fun."
When was the last time you thought about your age?
"I'm celebrating 64 now, and I'm mostly thinking about approaching retirement age and it's shocking me. Age is just a number, a bureaucratic procedure. I'm completely not my age. I do not feel 64 and I wish for myself to continue to feel like now for another 20 years. I Aware that the clock is ticking, but in the meantime everything is fine - in Corona I belonged to the risk group, over the age of 60, and there the age did catch me, but I gained a vaccine from the first.
"I hang out with people in their 40s and younger. In the theater most of the people I play with are 10 or even 15 years younger than me. I have a thought about age, for example how old I will be when Lana enlists, but I try not to give it much focus. "In that sense too, I do not feel the age, because being with a young woman and a little girl is a life drug that holds me very well. On the other hand, I admit I am a little more tired and a little less patient, but Lana is such an amazing girl with no reason to lose patience with her."
When was the last time you did sports?
"Tuesday. I swim in Palm Country and really like it. I was not athletic as a kid, but I have been swimming for about 30 years. There are times when I swim less, for example in Corona I did not swim, but I try very hard to swim and know it does me good and keeps me going. "Swimming is a meditative sport and I listen to music or go through oral texts in my head while doing so."
When was the last time you played?
"Yesterday, to my delight. As actors, we now value performances in front of an audience like we never appreciated. It was very difficult in the Corona period, a kind of 'life stopped.' I like to be at home, but when it's for a long time you suddenly do not find yourself. An actor defines me, at least in terms of occupation, and there is something we get from this work. It's not necessarily the applause, but the feeling that you have created an experience that exists not only between yourself.
"I envy people who reinvented themselves in Corona. I had thoughts of doing things online, but there was a kind of sense of inaction, a sense of blasting.
"Sometimes it seems to me that I'm a person without ambition. I do not so much leverage or initiate, rarely unfortunately. I guess I lost a lot because of it, for example I would very much like to direct. I feel like I have it, and that working with actors I have What to give. I have directed in relatively small settings, in acting schools, in a short theater festival together and in a theater. I really liked it, but only if I am offered it.
"After the Corona, the joy of returning to the stage was great. Nothing compares to performing in front of a live audience. There is no substitute for it. Playing is hard and tiring work, but it's a gift to love what you do. I would like the biggest challenges and I feel I can do a lot "Roles and that I have a lot more to give. I have satisfaction from what I have given so far and I am still full of desire. It is a great happiness for me to play younger people, as I now play in 'God of Killing' in the Cameri. It is a gift and I hope it continues like this."
When was the last time you returned to your childhood home?
"A few weeks ago, the Haifa Film Festival screened the film 'Tel Aviv' in which I participated, which is the debut film by director Mert Farhmovsky. A quarry. My parents Dina and Nahum taught there, they were both dance teachers. We lived not far away, and the whole Carmel area was very rural and relaxed. Haifa has changed a lot since then. Lots of music and dancing.
"I was an artist from a young age, drama classes and such, so there was no drama at home greater than my choice of drama. My parents are no longer alive, but the house where I grew up still exists. My parents divorced when I was 14 and today my father's second wife lives there, and I visit her regularly. "
When was the last time you missed?
"I miss my parents. Two months ago I visited my mother's second husband, who is 92 and lives in Florida in good health. When I visit him I feel like I am also visiting my mother, who passed away four years ago. She was 86, healthy and full of life. I went to her when she got sick and she had heart surgery after which the lungs did not return to function fast enough. For three months she was connected to machines and suffered, until she asked to disconnect her from the devices. To the hospice, I said good night to her and slept next to her, and in the morning she stopped breathing, she was really waiting for me.
"My father died of an illness 20 years ago, when he was 73. It's hard to miss them, because the longing doesn't really pass, but I do not go to the graves. As actors, everything we experience in life - we draw from it later on stage. We get better when we "We connect to our experiences and use them to be someone else. Sadness, grief and other difficult feelings are useful, and of course being a father to children. Every life experience adds something to us."
When was the last time you disconnected from your mobile?
"I do not disconnect from the mobile. Only when I go on stage. I also do not look at the mobile at any moment, but like everyone else - there is no one today who is not connected to the mobile. I am not addicted but I think we are all kind of addicts, because all our lives there. , World involvement, family, news.I need a lot of mobile news.
"Mobile addiction is a dependency, and dependency is not a good thing, but by and large I have no problem with it. I believe this dependency is part of the world and the introduction. Part of where we are right now. At the deepest level, I do not think it harms human communication, but just matters. "People are still talking, living together and meeting. What's happening to people in their twenties and under? It's a question mark."
When was the last time you got good advice?
"I get good advice from Maya every day, especially work-related advice. Each of us shares with each other the problems, difficulties and frustrations we encounter. Maya has now started writing, and she's writing wonderful. She's already written some screenplays and now she's writing a novel.
"We pretty much give each other a look, and that's what's good about being in the same field. I also had it in my first marriage to Anat, but it's also complex. You're exposed to your spouse's career and it radiates on you. You can not help but see your place "In that, although it should not be so, but when you are in the partnership the boundaries blur. I really want Maya to be successful and very involved in her dreams and aspirations, and when she writes she also draws material from real life. Today she first writes for herself the lead role."
When was the last time you thought about advertising?
"I've been in the profession for 40 years - and I'm what I am. I have not been able to become famous in a big way because it probably does not suit me. I think my quality speaks for itself and I know I am valued. I have nothing to complain about all the years and roles I have done. Be famous, maybe I was.I had opportunities, but it's probably not in my cards.
I treat my profession as an art and I am interested in playing good roles.
I have been privileged to play quite a few lead roles and I am happy if I get recognition.
"I will not rule out an offer from TV and film at all, I played both. I recently starred in the film 'Mr. Cole's Last Hour' which will be coming to cinemas soon, I played in a youth series and I am still recognized on the street from the 'Big Head' series 15 years ago. True, I did not have enough. It does not matter to me, maybe just to get roles in theater or cinema.In theater do look at advertising, because there is a battery of people who are both better known and excellent actors, so they are more likely to lead plays.
"I have lived near publicity all these years. I lived with Anat, who is a famous actress and grew up next to me. We met as soon as she graduated from acting school and her success was like my success. There was a stage that perhaps radiated on my lesser success, "I should not be jealous of my wife. I can be jealous of other players, but not her."
When was the last time you dubbed?
"Yesterday. I dubbed Mickey Mouse, who I've been dubbing for 35 years. I was also Bugs Bunny, Mr. Crab in 'Bob Sponge,' Frank in 'Hotel Monster,' Mr. Banks in 'Mary Poppins,' and lots of other voices. It's a parallel career that I'm Very glad I have, also financially, not that it puts in so much.Working just with the voice is a fascinating side of the profession.
"The dubbing is already a part of me, but my voice is getting deeper so it's getting harder and harder for me to do this high plateau. There are a lot of songs in the movies and there I have some difficulty, but as long as they do not throw me I would love to continue. I do not know if there is anyone else. So many years in the role of Mickey Mouse. "
When for the first time?
When did you first audition?
"My first audition was for the IDF Theater. The tests were at the paratrooper's house in Ramat Gan, and I had already gone through several screenings and this was the audition for the theater troupe, which was a new thing. The audition was in front of some of the band members and in front of other people who ran it, and I remember putting the couch between me and the examiners. They asked 'why did you put the couch between us?' And I replied 'because I wanted you to see me when I speak to a person'. They saw it as a weird and weird thing and I remember their embarrassment, but they still moved me, so I probably played well enough. It was fun in the army, we performed in Sinai and in remote bases even in front of ten people. Bringing a theatrical performance to the field was a mission. There were soldiers who saw a play for the first time in their lives. "
Ohad Shachar / 64 years old, actor, announcer and dubber, resident of Tel Aviv. Remarried to actress Maya Kopchik, father of Jonathan (31) and Gaia (23) from his first marriage to Anat Waxman and Lana (6) from his current marriage. Played in dozens of shows, movies and TV series. He is currently starring in the film "Mr. Cole's Last Hour," in the independent play "Are There Cockroaches in Israel?" And in the plays "Return," "God of Carnage," "Two People at Night," and "Connected to Life" at the Cameri Theater.
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