When was the last time you surfed social networks?
"The morning. When I have photographs I go surfing for about four hours a day, and on the days when I don't have it, it can be up to nine hours. The networks are my work tools, just like a person goes to work in his business, for about nineteen hours. Obviously, my business also contains pleasures and correspondence , but most of the busyness is to find out what's new, what's trendy, what's being talked about today, everything is here and now. I follow my friends from home, friends from school and celebs like Maya Wertheimer, Michal the Little and Guy Pines, and I see that my followers are changing, the audience is growing , and I'm happy. If a man stops me on the street and says, 'I've been following you for six years,' that means he was 16 and now he's 22. I still manage to interest him."
When was the last time you went on stage?
"Now, in rehearsals for 'Cinderella'. It's my first show and I'm really excited. I know I'm going to work very hard on Hanukkah, but I'm having so much fun, so it doesn't even feel like work to me because I'm surrounded by very good and funny people. I'm going To be disabled in December. I play Cinderella's evil sister, along with Idan Shimoni. We are both funny Yemeni sisters and we do a comic role. I make sure not to be too evil and not to be too humiliating, because everything is adapted to small children.
"For me, it's a kind of dream come true. My dream was to play in some kind of performance on a children's holiday. Because we're in a changing era, dreams also change. If I once had one dream when I grow up, today I don't know what it could be in five years. It could be that while In five years I will decide that I want to be a lawyer and I am no longer interested in advertising, and at the age of 30 I will be a lawyer. Every year I have a list of two-year dreams, what I want to happen this year. There was a year when I said I wanted to have 400 thousand followers - and it happened. The year after I did write that I wanted a leading role in a youth series - and I played in 'Ziggy', and this year I will play in a children's show."
When was the last time you were misunderstood?
"I have attention and concentration problems, so I often feel that I am not understood and I am a bit indecisive sometimes, I don't know what I want, so sometimes it confuses other people, but most of the time I am very understandable. Inside I know very well what I want , but sometimes I feel like a stranger. Sometimes I say that I should calm down my temperament so that people won't be afraid of me. On the other hand, people will always have something to say about me, so it's better to be who I am.
"The older I get, the more I understand life. I have thoughts about the content I upload on Instagram. It used to be really about nonsense, today I know that when you have followers you have responsibility, and followers also drop very quickly if you just upload things. On the other hand, I've grown up a lot, the content is more meticulous today."
When was the last time you failed?
"There's a role I wanted and couldn't get. I think I became famous because I was at the right time and in the right place. I was one of the first to star on the network. So there was a lot of audience that consumed the content more than an audience that created the content. I had a contract with my mother at the time, who told me 'stop This nonsense Shirley'. It embarrassed my parents and she was also afraid that I would deteriorate a bit in my studies, so I told her, 'Mom, give me a year. If nothing happens in a year, I'm leaving, bye.'
"I was 16-17 years old and she was afraid that I wouldn't have a high school diploma, but I graduated full high school, without Ritalin, and then I joined the army. When I was released, my mother was afraid that I would go back to the networks. I told her, 'I don't do South America, I don't do anything, I just write videos,' And in one year, every day, I gained a thousand followers. I mean, in a year I reached 365 thousand followers, which is a crazy number.
"Today, the number of people who want to be influential - or think they are influential - is very, very large. I have never dressed naked to get the likes and followers. There is no tit in my feed, in my photos, and in the stories I upload, and many of the responses I receive are from girls who tell me, 'What fun There is Shirley Levy, who shows that even without exposing your body you can get followers and followers. To become famous you don't need to reveal a nipple. There are people who upload videos and feel their inauthenticity, that they are trying to imitate others.
"It is very easy to upload a video online that will reach 100,000 likes; all you have to do is throw a chair and it makes people laugh. The bride from the wedding with Omar Adam - will she stay? People forget that the goal is not to break in, the goal is to stay."
When was the last time you fell in love?
"A year ago, and then my heart was also broken. I became addicted too quickly to a person I don't know. We met too quickly and directly managed a relationship. Today I understand it. I opened my heart too quickly. My father also said, 'He won you over too quickly,' And I think it was a lesson. I don't have any ego games, I honestly say what I feel, and it wasn't good. Maybe he wanted to ride on my publicity. Today I know that I'm a prize: I'm also funny, I'm also fun to be around, I'm also light , and because I know what I am, I didn't block him. On the contrary, watch me, see what you lost."
When was the last time you went on a diet?
"Every day I go on a diet, and then gradually I start to forget about it. On the one hand, the weight concerns me, and on the other hand I am so at peace with myself. Even without jeans in a smaller size they start with me. On the third hand, maybe it would be nice to buy a Will it work as long as she's not 40? On the other hand, I'm fine with it. We see women size 36-34 on TV and it's fun to look at girls like that, but I won't be like that, and they won't be me either.
"If I announce that I'm starting a diet - the followers immediately respond: 'Diet? Why do you want to be like everyone else? You radiate self-confidence.' that the thin ones win the equal guys. The photos with the bones are not pretty, it's not sexy, but it exists."
When was the last time you thought about the cost of living?
"I live in Tel Aviv and I was born into a financially calculated home. I give up a lot of things, I don't go to cafes too much. There is no financial security in my profession. It's possible that for three months I won't have anything.
"I am preparing money for my future, I am ready for retirement. Today's generation must understand that it is necessary to put money for the future, because when I become a grandmother, with God's help, I want to sit in a cruise with champagne and guys dancing around me because I will be a millionaire."
When was the last time you thought about your childhood?
"I think about her a lot. I went through a boycott in grades 1-3. I was a fat girl. I took growth-inhibiting drugs so that I would get my period later because I already had breasts in grade 2. I liked to push pita bread with hummus from the freezer and it was fun and delicious, And my whole environment would dictate to me what to do. The kindergarten teacher would call my mother and say that I was eating too much, so my mother hid the food from me, and when the food is hidden from me, I eat more, but my mother's goal was not to hurt me. The children abused me When they sang 'Fat Shirley, Big Shirley', and then laughed at my hair, each time they found something different. That's how it was all the time. In grades 7-8 they laughed at the bridge I had, and when I took the bridge off they laughed at something else. I said 'Enough, what is this chase?'"
When was the last time you were scared?
"In the last audition I did, I had a crazy lack of confidence, maybe because I did it in front of people I don't know. Usually I do auditions in front of a camera, send the video and then they watch me and decide if I'm suitable. In this case I sat in front of six people, and before I opened the I already lowered my confidence with 'Enough, you're no good. Enough, get out of here, why did you come here'. It was a formal audition, and I felt the disdain in their eyes. I don't know why people look at influencers in such a disdainful way. I work It's very difficult, I'm a working animal. There were downcast eyes that made me not be myself, and I left really crying."
When for the first time: did you
go on stage?
"I've always liked being looked at, and I still like it today. It sounds a bit narcissistic, but I'm not really like that. I like it when people listen to what I have to say and I like cameras. When I was 4 years old I went up to put on a show at Friday dinner: I went out into the living room with a hat of Grandpa, his coat and cane and I hugged him, and everyone fell down laughing.
"In the army I served in the operations unit and they asked me to do stand-up in front of 500 people, in the presence of senior commanders and without being blunt. I said I didn't want to stay on Shabbat because of stand-up, but in the end I went on stage and it was amazing. I felt like I was me."
Shirley Levy
(26), actress, presenter and content creator.
Resident of Tel Aviv.
She started out by creating comedic videos on Facebook.
created the network series "Shirley is looking for love",
Hosted "The Isolator", "The Last Floor" and "Don't Answer" and played in the children's series "Ziggy".
Plays in the children's show "Cinderella" alongside Dean Miroshnikov, Moshe Ashkenazi, Idan Shimoni and Naama Super-Ael.
Has 461 thousand followers on Instagram, 59,600 subscribers on YouTube and 425,400 followers on TikTok
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