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Gil Frank: "As a kid they laughed at my stuttering, so I kept my mouth shut from the age of 10 until Beit Zvi" | Israel today

2021-12-18T19:35:26.475Z


He feels like a stranger in front of cameras, enjoys playing killers, and feels flattered when women start dating him on social media ("But it does not do to me what it did 20 years ago") • Gil Frank reinvents himself as a singer in the musical "The OpenBank" The movies that run through his head


When was the last time you played?

"Yesterday, in the play 'Madam Prime Minister' of the Hebrew Theater. We performed in Katzrin, and it was very cold and very fun. I like to perform in Katzrin, the hospitality there is always warm, endearing and embracing. In Corona there was a time when I thought "On stage, but as the theater came back I felt it was like the first rain, saying how hard it was summer but forgetting with the first drop. The way we came back to play, the whole hard time was left behind."

When was the last time you felt like a stranger?

"When I am photographed, I feel like a stranger. I am a man of the stage, I have no connection to the cameras. Even in front of the TV cameras, I struggle with a sense of alienation. Beyond that, I am originally from Haifa and I left Haifa, but Haifa did not leave me. "I have something left over from the shy Haifa, even though I've been in Tel Aviv for 38 years."

When was the last time you faced a difficulty?

"A moment ago. I've been living with stuttering for years, but luckily on stage it does not happen to me and the stuttering even pushes me to want to play. As a child the stuttering bothered me, even though my name has been considered very easy to laugh. Laugh at my stuttering, which made it for me From an elephant mouse and I kept my mouth shut from the age of 10 until the audition at Beit Zvi. Even so, I had a magical childhood with sports, friends and nature, along with great shyness. To this day I am shy. There are lots of actors who appear in front of thousands of people such a".

When was the last time you went to psychotherapy?

"As a child, when my parents wanted me to stutter. It was not my choice. I always prefer to walk and fall alone. Reach the pit, stay alone, get up and walk on my own. I listen to what I did, move on and try to improve and change. Life is mine and only them will live. ".

When was the last time you felt misunderstood?

"This month. When I talk to service representatives, for example of insurance companies or banks, I feel misunderstood. Everything for me is the horror of bureaucracy, and I feel like a little Kafka when I have to get paid or refunded. I get lost in these things."

When was the last time you received particularly helpful advice?

"Yesterday. My wife Inbar told me to 'calm down'. This is always good advice in the context of the movies that run through my head. Inbar and I met 20 years ago. I came to have breakfast at a cafe where she worked. She was at the bar, and we have not parted since. Before It was young and I went wild, and then I grew up and came across the woman of my life, and here we are. They say, "When the student is ready, the teacher comes," and in our case, love comes. By the way, we are not married. I was religiously married twice. There's nothing religious or formal with Amber and we're almost 20 years old, so draw your conclusions. I believe in the movement, that's the only thing I believe in. Ceremonies are burdensome for me, from school ceremonies to national or personal ceremonies. I avoid them, too From events such as weddings, funerals, birthdays and holidays. "

When was the last time you were complimented?

"Yesterday, on the street,"

"I told her, 'I make a living.'

When was the last time you discovered something new about yourself?

"When I sang in the new show 'The Autobank' I discovered the happiness of singing on stage. It's more than playing. The wings you get and the flight you feel are bigger. I do not consider myself a singer, I am an actor who can sing. But once I sing it is different from acting, and that Great fun.The songs on "OpenBank" made me want to have another show that I would sing in, but I will not release an album now.

"At OpenBank, I also feel supreme happiness from the role itself. It's a story about a man who stumbled and 'repented' and I am surrounded by beautiful, talented and kind-hearted people, so everything together is a celebration. Broadway is here."

When was the last time you were offered reality?

"Never. I do not watch reality and for me it is a TV game, not real reality. All that happens there is an intervention of the production, and I did not connect to it as a spectator. They once said: what is commercial theater worth compared to repertory theater, "Television. The live experience of the theater has no substitute, so those who love theater will have an experience that can only be met there. Cinema will not kill the theater and no other medium. Things just work out according to the new situation and the spaces are filled."

When was the last time you exercised?

"This morning. I run almost every day because I have to pay for the cigarettes I smoke. I run for half an hour, do cardiopulmonary training. I do not really like it, but it's the payment I have to pay. It's a health matter. I'm not. I'm going to quit smoking, so I better run a little longer. "

When was the last time you fulfilled a dream?

"Now. My dream is to act and direct, and I do it in the Hebrew theater. I work with a playwright on a play she wrote, and I do a stage adaptation for him. It's a challenge to both direct and act, but it's hard good. Over the years you develop on stage the The skill of being 360-degree conscious, and that gives you the opportunity to direct. Directing is a desire to show and prove to yourself that what you think should be - will work, and that you can express it. I'm glad that Gadi Tzedaka gives me an opportunity to direct. And it motivates to more critical action.The responsibility is on you and it is a driving force.The challenge is not weakening, but on the contrary, binding.Challenges are good, otherwise it will be boring.

"In terms of acting, there is no specific role that I dream of being offered. From my youth I was given wonderful roles and tried to bite into them. "And they do not know that inside me I am a chick with half an egg on my head. I can only congratulate it."

When was the last time you broke something?

"A few days ago I broke a glass in the kitchen, by mistake. There were days I would get up for a show, and there was a nightmare. I was angry, depressed. I knew I had a show, and I was afraid I would stutter and fail. Now those days are gone. You have to go through the whole black tunnel to get to the end And today I'm with my head out. When I was in the black pit I knew I was on a path of struggle. You know you're on the way, and the goal gives you the strength to face everything you have to go through. "It's life. You're on the move, struggling and achieving. Training yourself to deal with things. I went through all the colors of all the arcs, because there are more than seven colors in our lives, and I would not do anything else. I thank you for my life and my way."

When was the last time you thought about your parents?

"I think about them every day. My father, Eli, died of a heart attack three months ago. He was 86, lived independently at home and died sitting at the computer. My mother, Tzipora, died four years ago when she was 74, after years of struggling. Alzheimer's is a terrible disease, the person loses touch, and those around him lose their minds.

"I'm glad there's the euthanasia in Switzerland and today I heard about another possibility of dying painlessly in 30 seconds. I myself will take the cup of poison. "Mother was dependent for five years, and did not even recognize people. She was a respected organism. I will try to avoid dependence on all the forces I have left."

When was the last time you spent time with family?

"Today. Noam, the son of Inbar and mine, is 18 years old and already has 9 years of experience in the game. He is full of activity and work, and really I never dreamed I would have such youth, and I did not have one.

"My eldest son, Gali, from the marriage to Meirav Gruber, lives in Jaffa and is studying acting at Nissan Nativ. Tomorrow I will bring him food. The connection with him is daily and very close. He started studying acting after his younger brother, who plays from the age of 9. Noam knew before he was born with 'it 'And Gali - a bit like me - came to the game at a later age and started studying after the army. At first he distanced himself from his parents, who are both actors, then made a U-turn and went to play in the' Palmach 'series and then study acting.

I offered him the option to study, and he chose.

He already had an agent and he could wait for more auditions, but what a different and good story it is to study in acting school. "

When was the last time you checked the current account?

"I go through my account every day, and check that there are no mistakes and that the banks keep their word. I hope that I must be in control of the matter. I have one account. I go in to see what is there and move on. Today I am fine. We work, make a living and live according to our ability. "I used to live extravagantly, but today I am focused. Inbar made the change for me, but even in my wild times I was not late to return or pay bills. I always kept my bourgeois nucleus and this nucleus kept me from going too far."

When was the last time you started with you?

"I do not remember. Sometimes there are all sorts of things on Facebook and networks, but I declare that 'I'm married.' When you are wanted it always feels nice, but it does not do to me what it did twenty years ago. This or that movie. " 

When was the last time you wrote?

"In August I wrote a song about the Autobank and now I have published it. I really like to write, it's the perfect bubble. At 18 I had a dream of being a writer, and it's a dream that lasts 40 years.

"A person needs a dream, and sometimes there is nothing worse than fulfilling a dream, because then you are left without. I published one book and I have a fear of fulfilling the whole dream, so now it is held. The practice of words gives me a lot of power to all the twists and turns of life Souls are alive, not lost and not dead. "

When for the first time?

When did you first get on stage?

"At 24, in third year at Beit Zvi, it was the first time in front of a real audience. It was scary, but I came back on stage because fear attracts you like a butterfly to light. If fear had not attracted, most people would not do what they do."

Gil Frank // 58 years old, actor and director, resident of Tel Aviv.

In a relationship with the artist Inbar Heiman, a father to Gali (21) from his marriage to Meirav Gruber, and to Noam (18) from his current partner.

He studied acting at Beit Zvi and played in dozens of plays, movies and TV series.

He has twice won the Theater Award for his roles in "The Father" and "Macbeth" at the Cameri Theater.

He currently plays in the play "Madam Prime Minister" and in the musical "The OpenBank" at the Hebrew Theater

shirshirziv@gmail.com

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