Master complex

Actor Gil Frank and his son Noam star in the new season of "The Well" here in an educational and couple interview. To the corner

Sagi Ben Nun

18/02/2022

Friday, February 18, 2022, 00:00

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Last week, a new adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" was staged at the Gesher Theater, which broke records for boys-of, girls-of-relatives and relatives-of-.

Romeo is played by Noam Frank, the son of veteran actor Gil Frank;

Julia is played by Neta Roth, the niece of Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and the granddaughter of the writer Shulamit Lapid;

The director is Ilail Semel, the daughter of Habima CEO Noam Semel; another actress is Ruth Sandrovich, the daughter of Gesher actor Alex Sandrovich; the composer is Adam Chen-Adamov, the son of the house playwright of Gesher Roi Chen; the set designer is Polina Adva, his wife By

Chen; and Sophia Golan, the daughter of actor Yishai Golan, was also supposed to play in the play, but in the end she was left out

. He is from his talent. "

Noam Frank: "In my past, when I started, I heard a lot of the claim about protections. But over the years, you see that you do something more and more, and it's not just a role of a boy here and a boy there, things start to get bigger. Now I play Romeo and I barely Believe it's happening. I want to hope that over the years I have proven myself, that I stand by myself and only with my last name. Eventually, people who look at my projects over the years - will be able to see that it is not protection, that I have proven myself.

"True, this group at Studio Bridge has a lot of descendants of, and I think that's also part of our strength. I got to do some conversations about this thing. We're a bunch of people with such and such master complexes, and I think part of our drive to do what That we do and get pretty nice results this from where there are those above us, and we all want to show that we are more.It's our parent complex. We are all descendants of people who are personas, very great people. "

Age: "No need to exaggerate. People sell."

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Gil and Noam Frank (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Just make sure I understand: do you have a father complex that makes you want to show that you're bigger than your father, Gil Frank?

Noam: "Obviously. There is no doubt. I do not take it as something bad. It is such an internal drive that everyone in this studio has this bridge, including the director."

Gil: "Look, all the children and people want to look someone in the eye, in order for it to turn you on and aspire to it. "He went to the theater, and I have nothing to do with all the auditions he did."

We met with Noam Frank and his father Gil Frank on the occasion of their starring once again side by side in the form of a father and son, in the suspense and fantasy series "The Well" which returned here educationally for a new season (broadcast Sunday through Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.).

The series was created by Sivan Shiknaji and Yaron Arazi, who also directed with Rani Saar, and alongside the Frank family, Noa Koller, Emma Alfi-Aharon, Rumi Aviram, Yaakov Zeda-Daniel, Maayan Blum, Rotem Keinan and more also play.

This is not the first time they have played side by side, it first happened in the play "Cornelius" in which they played father and son.

"It was a difficult play, and any question I had straight away I went to Dad. It never felt awkward for me to play next to Dad. After the show, we heard someone in the audience say that the other kid who plays my role is more like Gil Frank than I am."

Age: "He's more like the mother's side."

Noam: "So when I was cast again as his son, in 'The Well', I said 'this is an unsuccessful casting job'".

Gil Frank and his son Noam Frank in the series "The Well" here educational (Photo: courtesy here educational)

Gil: "Noam got the acting talent from his mother. From me he got the work ethic, the passion and the desire to be a director who sees everything in 360 degrees."

Gil erupts: "Noam is just looking at me on stage - and is already filled with anger or disappointment."

Noam: "Like every parent and child, we have quarrels and angers. I remember that in the first show we did together, '" Cornelius ", there is a scene towards the end of the show, that the character of a father betrays his country, leaves the family behind, we visit him at the border, I get upset And tell him that one day I will grow up, be a soldier and I will kill him. That was my only sentence in the show and I was very proud of it. It is a very charged sentence. Consciously or unconsciously, you look at the stage about the actor who is your father, "For you, to help you channel the feelings. Two scenes after that, the show ends with me crying over his body. At first I had a very hard time and slowly it was getting cool."

Noam Frank was born 18 years ago to Gil Frank and artist Inbar Heiman.

"Noam started playing at the age of two, at home, unprofessionally," says Gil. .

The first play he played in the theater as a child was "Odysseus' Journeys" on the Bridge when he was nine-and-a-half.

"Mom and Dad would come with me to every show, and it was very helpful to know that I always have parental support from Dad and Mom."

Gil Frank: "You see, when I first took the stage at the age of twenty-something, at Beit Zvi - I was embarrassed and scared. The tear flows in my eye. He opens his mouth, and at the first syllable I realized I could go. A clear, clear voice, here I come, I'm here,

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Noam Frank in his youth with his father Gil Frank in the play "Coriolanus" on stage (Photo: Gerard Alon)

Noam studied at the Tel Aviv School of the Arts, from where he went on to study theater at Thelma Yellin High School, where he is currently studying at the Twelfth School. "," Comfort "," It's Not the Age "and" The Well "; "," Mr. Peabody and Sherman "," Toy Story ").

In such a busy and intense life, it is no wonder that there are also moments of collapse. Gesher, who deals with a charged issue - teenagers at the Center for Mental Medicine.

Noam: "It was also the first time I did such a complex role, it was the first week, and at the same time the intensive studies at Thelma. I had a very difficult week, where I came home nervous, and one day I came home and broke down in tears."

Gil: "So first of all I told him: 'Cry, cry, take everything out, you are allowed to cry, you are allowed to break, you are allowed to take a day off because you do a lot.' Noam thought of giving up something, so I said to him: 'No. "You do not want to give up, do you? But crying is good. You take it out. It's a place I could help, I did not assume I could help and I was glad I succeeded."

"I did not want a normal big vacation like other kids wanted. I could not have asked for better than the big vacations I had with filming and plays. If I have a moment of rest I climb the walls. Everyone tells me 'childhood is gone'. I really disagree with that. I had an amazing childhood. "

Noam Frank as Romeo and Neta Roth as Julia in the play "Romeo and Juliet" by Gesher Theater (Photo: Michal Halbin)

I was surprised to read in previous interviews with you that Gil has never helped Noam at work on characters for productions or exercises for school.

Noam: "Dad did not intervene or I did not let him intervene. I never came to work with him on things."

Gil: "On my own initiative I never helped Noam, only if he asked or asked. He worked more with his mother, not with me. I understand why. It's his rebellion."

Noam: "It could be rebellion. After all, if I encountered such and such difficulties, at all kinds of intersections where I did not know where to choose to go, Dad was always attentive and gave advice. For example, there was a time when I started acting on stage and there was talk of production at the Be'er Sheva Theater. At that time. Suddenly there were two productions that wanted me, I was very excited about the situation but also very scared of it, and did not know what I preferred. It was a very difficult choice. So I remember sitting with Dad and we made a list of pros and cons, we published the situations, and understood together And what less. "

"In the early years I remember Dad at really busy times, in shows every night. But he never felt missing me, also because pretty soon I started coming with him to all the rehearsals and shows. There were shows he saw too many times, like 'Two went together'. "This is a play that an eight-year-old boy is not supposed to see, this is a play about Ben-Gurion and Jabotinsky who talk about Israeli politics."

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Gil Frank in the musical "The Open Bank" of the Hebrew Theater (Photo: Rami Zelniger)

Age, as someone who knows the dark sides and problematic phenomena in the industry, did you have a fear when your son entered this world?

"Look, I've been in the theater for 33 years, I've never lived with the feeling that this place is dangerous or vulnerable, even though I understand the claims. When Noam would leave the house and go to school I was apprehensive as a parent. Roads, perverts on the street. Today as an 18-year-old he knows The things that happen. The freedom is to trust him. He knows he always has someone to turn to in the open house. It's the achievement, that the children are open with us. He knows how to be careful, because he is in the jungle - on the road, in workplaces. Be smart. "

Noam: "First of all - this is not the media. This is Dad."

Gil (laughs): "Dad does not like IKEA. Furniture does not complain."

Noam: "Dad was ashamed. There were such and such headlines. I know almost everyone has such and such stories. I know that until I was born Dad was wild and revelry. I do not think it's a shame. That's how he lived his life. I think he learned a lot from it. I think he was not the man he is today, and he would not have raised me as he raised me if he had not lived as he lived his life. One way or another. Obviously there were unpleasant cases. Let's say I was with some friends at an art school, sixth or seventh grade. We googled my dad's name, and one of the first results was an article saying that Gil Frank left the orgies and drugs in favor "Fatherhood. There was an awkward silence. Some knew what orgies were, some did not know."

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Dad was ashamed.

Gil and Noam Frank (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Age, next year you're 60. Is that personal?

"60 is the first number for me with an aroma of old age. 59 does not feel that way. 60 does feel. I sometimes say the number and do not believe that here I am here. Then I leave it, because I have nothing to do it, just keep living. After. "I will go to my world, burn me, and take down the ashes in some scene in a theater of rain or in a confetti place. In my death you will be happy. Just be happy."

"I was admitted to the IDF Theater, I am enlisting in August.

Hope to get the title "Active Artist" so I can work while.

For me I continue for more years on the bridge.

And after the army or maybe even during the army, my big dream is directing. "

Gil: "Copy 'Chicago' which was about murderers. Who is reported in the news? Who did the accident or all those who did not have an accident? For people who strayed from the road - they have a place in the theater. A fun and absolutely exciting musical came out. If you remember The affair, in 83-84, the banks ran stocks and worked on the public.A few years later, 89, someone came - Roni Leibowitz - and knocked the banks, stealing money and eluding all the time.and he also did not hit anyone.The street wanted him to succeed. He was like a rock star. There was a musical atmosphere on the street. That thing was taken for a musical. But in a musical he finally gets his sentence. By the way, I met Roni Leibowitz. He's a lovely man. He has no criminal mind. He knows he made a mistake. He knows he deserved the punishment, and he fulfilled the punishment and he is not dangerous to the public. "

Noam: "There was and still is. I have a partner, my beloved who will live, her name is Alma, who is studying theater with me at Thelma Yellin. We have been together for two years. She is really my first love. I had little crashes as a child. But I never fell in love with someone We were good friends but the romantic relationship between us started on the day the State of Israel entered the first closure. All our first month together we did not meet and just made face time. We just talked. And that's the best thing that happened to our relationship. It's totally my first love affair. And in adolescence it's like 21 years. I thought a lot about how I would have gotten into 'Romeo and Juliet' if I had not had Alma. I guess it was a lot scarier. Because it's a much faster and more powerful love story, and without knowing it in reality "To be much harder for me as an actor. Luckily I knew that, and I drew a lot of the emotions that I was happy to draw with it - into the show."

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