"I do not want to show myself cute on Instagram. Self-marketing rejects me"
Moments after filling out Hangar 11 at the "Maximilian" festival she initiated, Marina talks about her career ("Nothing Comes Easy"), about "Cocktail" ("I really liked the song"), the desire for another child, the aversion to Instagram ("all the experience"). To be beautiful - just unreliable ") and the role in the international series.
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Walla!
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11/04/2022
Monday, April 11, 2022, 00:00
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Marina Maximilian Blumin performs in the studio Justin Bieber's "Stay" and The Kid LAROI at the annual Walla!
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Last Saturday, musician Marina Maximilian performed in front of a packed hall at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv.
The show took place as part of the "Maximilian" festival that she initiated and concocted, and included art, culture, artists from around the world and of course a performance by Marina herself.
This was the second year the festival has been held, after last year it was held online in light of the Corona restrictions.
"This festival is my big dream as someone who was the weirdest chicken from the first moment she appeared on screen in 'A Star Is Born,'" Maximilian tells Walla!
culture.
"All these years I've been trying to minimize my quirks to reach people. It was more important for me to touch people than to preserve traits of the genres I came from, like jazz and classical. Today, 15 years after I broke into Star Born, I'm in a stable enough place To say that the culture I bring to people is part of the culture that will be in the country. Every artist does it in his own way. Music to the forefront of this festival.I want to enrich the souls of the people.This festival is a project of my life.
"In everything we experience, sometimes engaging in culture feels like whipped cream. But it takes art to have something to fight for. It fills me in an indescribable way. Probably that's what I need to bring to people. I want to bring a taste of the margins to the mainstream to allow people to experience something That they would not have reached it themselves. "
As someone who was born in Ukraine, how much does the war there occupy her?
"We deal with it a lot and everyone in my family helps in his own way. My father helped several pairs of friends with all the topology of immigrating to Israel, my brother went to the Polish border to help refugees, I donate money to the Jewish Agency that helps them and also raise fundraising events. "And we congratulate our mother and father for leaving early enough. The Soviet Union has always been a crazy place."
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Not natural to me.
Marina (Photo: Walla! NEWS Studio)
An artist can not be run today without the use of social networks.
How is your relationship with Instagram?
"It's not natural for me to use social media but I try to learn it, to be in it, both as promotional and personal as possible. I hate to hold the phone in the moments I enjoy the most. The last thing I want to do in those moments is take a picture. It kills every beautiful moment. In reality.I have no problem taking pictures, but I hate to hold the phone, just hate it.I understand the need for Instagram, I also take part in it, but I'm also proud that there are days I do not upload anything and I am not online. I'm happy That young girls also see a different side of me. This change of clothes, the action, beautifying every moment - it's just unbelievable and I'm a person who loves life the way they are. "I just do not feel like it. It's too demanding."
You mentioned earlier the moment of your breakthrough in "A Star Is Born," somewhere about 15 years ago.
How significant was he in retrospect?
"It was a very significant moment in my life. It was really a groundbreaking event."
Have you had any doubts about whether to go to the program?
"Yes, but one conversation with my grandmother summed it all up for me. I came from jazz and the guys from jazz like to raise an eyebrow, patronize over things that are not them. In the eyes of the jazz musicians, pop is considered more inferior. My friends in the field saw My decision as an artistic compromise, but what I told my grandmother is that there is an opportunity here to work with the best professionals in Israel, every week to do covers, which is what I do in jazz anyway, and in a few months to give people a chance to get to know me and come to my shows. As soon as I said it that way - it was clear that there was no reason to refuse it. 'Star Born' was a school for me. Development is more important to me than anything, more important than doing something that will be appreciated by my colleagues. Today it is also clear that it is not an instant success. The time and you're on the cover of some newspaper - what you do after that will make you stay or disappear.
"There was one day I went after the finale on the street and there was a renovation shop that was wrapped in newspapers. One of them was the final newspaper with my picture. It was so sweet, because that's exactly the whole story. You got 15 seconds of fame - now keep proving yourself, now you will In action. "
You lived on stage.
Marina (Photo: Shlomi Pinto)
And recently you have returned to the field of gaming.
It started from "Fauda" of course.
"True, I played 'Fauda' after many years of not playing and had a lot of fun. It was an amazing experience and some of the staff became my friends for life. The challenging part was the intimate scenes. "But not bad, Guy and I survived it and participating there opened doors for me to the world. I now have an agent in Los Angeles and for the last two years I've done a lot of auditions.
Which is the international series you recently filmed in Italy.
"Yes, I loaded Guy, the two girls and a babysitter into Rome during a closing and I was photographed there for this crazy series alongside Patrick Dempsey. It was directed by the director of the British 'Sherlock', which is a crazy masterpiece. It's a behind the scenes of the financial world. It was a great experience and the series comes up at the end of the month. The truth is that it whetted my appetite.
"It has to be said that because I'm not an actress, I can enjoy this experience and release it.
Playing is a very tough profession because it is constantly dependent on others, unlike a singer who can pick up performances, festivals, create songs.
That is, a singer produces the movement.
An actor constantly depends on everyone.
By the way, the auditions abroad are from today to tomorrow, and if you were accepted - the filming will begin in a few weeks. There is no more disregard for a person's schedule than this.
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"The truth is. In the early years the firm that worked with me was very concerned about the openness I was interviewing. For me, I had never been to a psychologist in my life so an interviewer was like someone interested in my life. My mother kept telling me anxiously, 'Why do you have to tell them this? Why should everyone know? ', And I for one did not see it as a problem. It was a conversation with the state and all the interviews were full of scoops. I had a good experience of it, I was not really burned. Professional. Instagram for me is more of a necessity, designed to show myself cute. I hate it. I do not want to show myself cute anywhere. If I'm cute in the eyes of someone - let him document it and raise it. .
I loved the cockatoo.
Omar Adam (Photo: Yaron Shilon)
As a member of the CIS countries, what did you think of Omar Adam's song "Kakdila"?
"I actually really liked the song. As the song came out, I said to Omar, 'How cool, you and I bring the Russian language to the radio.' "And hear what they think. We all liked it very much, but it's good that this discourse exists. It's good that people are flooding."
Still, the Russian girls in the song are still portrayed in very bad stereotypes.
"But this is Omar's lexicon. It exists in his songs regardless of 'Kakdila.' "Omar, not Avraham Halafi. I mean, Omar in his songs always talks about parties, about girls he wants to meet at parties. Anyway, this whole discussion is important and we must talk about it as much as possible."
Do you enjoy motherhood?
"Listen, when I was a girl, I had a dream that I was pregnant. When I got up I discovered it was just a dream and wept bitterly. I could not go out for a few weeks and felt like I had a hole in my stomach. "The most dreamy for me. We are happy, we enjoy every moment. They climb on us at night and make us laugh during the day. By the way, I want more children."
"I take it very seriously. By the way, when talking about a career, I have to say that nothing comes easily at any stage. I'm not a person who likes to say 'hard work'. I hate the word 'hard' in every context. But also as an established artist In Israel, I'm constantly working on it, constantly reinventing, always in the next project. When young guys ask for tips, I tell them what I'm saying to myself - go ahead, for the next thing, nothing happens by itself. Justify your existence and love the behind the scenes of it. Note that the great singers - what works for them is that they constantly produce the next thing. They lead trends. If a song did not work - they immediately put one after it. One song that holds you for a lifetime. There's no such thing anywhere else in the world anymore. It's a very demanding field and you have to love it otherwise it's a killer.You can not want just that and not everything else. "
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