The glovenant handsome with an ideal, snow-white smile, spark in the eyes and a wonderful tightened figure, by whose shoulders are dozens of broken female hearts ... So they draw the British actor Juda Low almost all the media. At one time he tried to fight and defeated his personal life from journalists, but now it seems to accept. His children, his novels and, naturally, his cinematic victories - especially the last, in the TV series "Young Dad" - discuss fans and critics. Finally, Low himself is ready to tell you with what he came to his forty-fourth birthday.
"Jude, right now interest in your life from the media, which is already high always, just soared to heaven. Thanks to your work with Paolo Sorrentino and his TV series. Tell me, how are you, a serious movie and theater actor, decided to participate in the TV show?
- Sorrentino in the eyes of each actor has a god-like status. He creates amazing things, rich and complex, thin, winding, heartfelt, generous ... You know, he is an incredible person. I agreed to participate in the "dad" because of him first. For me, it became a great joy - to work with Paolo, to create a character of politically and religiously significant, surviving in the Vatican, student to manipulate and manage those who want to manipulate them. Sorrentino gave me a fertile soil for work.
- You played a robot, playboy, soldier, Danish prince, English king. But the roles of such a magnitude and significance in your career has not yet been. The governor of God on Earth, the head of the Catholic Church, is not the most pleasant and unequivocal - you were not afraid of condemnation of believers and the Vatican?
- Of course, I was just amazed by this proposal, and thoughts about how I will play the chapter of the most influential religious association, I did not leave me. First lost in the scale of concepts - about the Catholic faith, the church, about the papal history. But Paolo gave me to understand: no need to worry about such things, you need to worry about the nature of Lenny Belardo (the name of Pia Xiii, whom Lowe plays. - Approx. Auth.). Sorrentino told me the following: "You need to tell them about the guy, he is an orphan who became a dad."
In the role of Gigolo Joe from "Artificial Mind" Stephen Spielberg
Frame from the film "Artificial Mind"
- Are you a religious person?
"I walked this phase of my life, having finished diving on Buddhism and spirituality, a little different from the understanding of Christians.
- That is, at some point did you survive the crisis of faith?
- You know, for forty-three years, I already seem to have a crisis of everything. But now I am in that pleasant condition to which everyone needs to go. I live in satisfaction and comfort, even learned to sleep serene. (Laughs.) In fact, there is something frightening, terrifying in extreme Catholicism, in a conservative faith. It is important not to lose your head and act consciously.
- They say such awareness came to you after several years of psychotherapy.
- Many somehow shy to talk about it, but not me. Indeed, I went to the doctor, it was a new and extremely useful experience, interesting and important for me. But most importantly, what I want to ask for everyone who plans to seek help, - find your specialist. Before him you have to open the soul, cry and laugh, talk about intimate, hidden things, fears and doubts. And you should be comfortable to do it.
- Jude, I can not ask. There was a moment when your ambiguous glory of the sex symbol blocked your acting glory ...
- Yes, but I try not to nostalgize about those times. (Smiles.) And I try not to look back. I was always a man who tries to live here and now. I just don't have a very good memory, maybe therefore I manage to do so. I live life by chapters: one ended, the other began, and what was on the previous page, I do not remember. Such an approach was rooted in me for a long time.
- It is quite possible, in forty-four, it is too early to sum up some results, but how much is your life changed for the last, for example, ten years?
- When I was thirty, it was - how to say better? - Time of Troubles. I think everyone went through such chapters in their lives. There were moments when I did not feel absolutely confident regarding what I will bring in the film. Or did not feel that I go in the right direction. I have never been delighted with what I did. This was just an activity in the name of activity, but I like to do something meaningfully, in the name of something. I used to be a real optimist, the great champion of the human spirit. But, alas, confused this fotal for a while. I feel that now, over the past few years, some of my zador returned to me. And then, thirty, I had a period of misentropy - I didn't quite highly appreciate the whole human genus in general. Falnic sentiments pursued me - especially in matters of human low-lying addictions, their interests, preferences. It was so far from what I found interesting, close! I felt at the bottom of a cesspool.
- Obviously, it happened at the time of the hunt for you many tabloids ...
- This is true. I tried three times with newspapers and magazines, which provided information made from closed official sources - courts, police.
In the "Talented Mr. Ripley" Lowe starred by a famous actor - and was nominated for Oscar
Frame from the film "Talented Mr. Ripley"
- Then you performed quite aggressively and rigidly towards the authorities, stating that you can't feel safe in the country where judicial and police instances trade personal data. Do you still feel like that?
- True, it is definitely how I felt. How else? I was then in a situation in which even the court drives you into an angle, selling the media details of your personal life. Imagine that you chase you, pursue your right to personal information, but you cannot turn to the authorities, because they are first and organized "leakage". Of course, I'm not talking about all police officers - there were those who treated me with respect, tried to help. In general, we are talking about the basics of democracy - the power we can trust. Funny, isn't it? But I still believe in such a system, although I see that while it does not work one hundred percent.
- It sounds like you have already experienced the middle-aged crisis. Is not it too early?
- In general, I am an early guy. (Laughs.) Everything was done early. Your first theater - youth musical - found at the age of twelve. School threw in seventeen to take part in the filming of his first series. He became a father at twenty-three years. By the way, about the role of the Father literally, everyone considered his duty to note: "Oh, how early!" But what is, that is, I never considered it a problem. But it always felt that it was the period of time from forty to fifty years that would be the most productive and saturated. This is a great age for the actor. And now, when I'm already forty-four, I understand that it was right. When you twenty, being an actor is quite dangerous - because of the youth idealism, due to the oversaturation of inspiration. I know what I'm talking about, - I had it happened. I was full of ideas, the aspirations that I could not have failed to implement. But the problem is that, facing reality, you become a cynic. This happened to me for years to thirty - what I told about above. I had to rethink everything that I do, what I strive for. Then it seemed to me that in the forty-fifty I would be already a director, I would return to the production of films. And I also dreamed that the children would grow and we will not be tied to London. Well, partly my dreams were realized. (Smiles.) Children really grew up.
"Jude, you are not only a successful movie acter who has nominated twice" Oscar ", but also a sought-after theatrical figure, like many of your British compatriots. Traction to the scene - something national?
- (laughs.) Surely. Since childhood, I wanted to speak exactly on the stage, not thinking about the movie, and my parents strongly encouraged my passion. By the way, now they own the theater company. In short, theater is my first love. There was a forced break, which was delayed for seven years, but now I'm in the ranks again.
The television series Paolo Sorrentino "Young Dad" became another creative victory of Low
Frame from the series "Young Dad"
- You are a man not just an attractive, but multiplely recognized world sex symbol. How do you feel about such a hype about your appearance?
"I tried to hide this appearance for a beard, which was played for theatrical work in Anne Christie." (Laughs.) Well, you just need to admit that I have the classic appearance of the canonical romantic hero. Often I had to feel bitter disappointment: the directors wanted to see me in a certain role, and then I walked to them in the opposite, trying to choose my own other characters. But many still perceive me as a "handsome" of Although. I am glad that with age - and thanks to him - I became available to a wider and deep spectrum of roles. I think I could not play dad at twenty-five. And in forty - please!
- That is, you're not afraid of age?
- aging does not scare me at all, and, by and large, precisely because of new career opportunities. In Anna Karenina, instead of the Hero-lover of Vronsky, I played an equally interesting and important role, sorry, the spouse-cuckold Alexei Karenina. I am joying that I grew out of my usual role.
Understand, for me the process of growing up has been associated with the violent receipt of bitter experience and everyday wisdom. It was a long and very public process. But all this digging in dirty underwear, which we have already talked about, has become its own-shaped release for me. Public condemnation forces you either to clog into the corner and stir there under the oppression of public opinion, or take it with the words: "Yes, it happens, and what? I'm sorry". My aging allowed me to look at the world at a different angle. Please do not tell me that there are no people in the world who do not regret the perfect or said who would not have done or did not speak stupid things. This life is true, and this is one of its wonderful sides. We are all committing actions that would not cost. But, looking at everything with me experienced, I tell myself that I never repeat them again.
- Are you a patriot?
- Not really. That is, I feel part of the nation, especially away from her, for example, in Hollywood, where we, the British, a lot. I do not plan to leave England. At least because of children. They live here with their mother (actress Sadi Frost. - approx. Auth.). Our houses are close to each other, so now I can't leave the capital. But in 2009, for some time I lived in New York, where children brought. After that journey, we returned to England - and I re-fell in love with London.
- Jude, how are your relationship with the world and, in particular, with the press now?
- I think I managed to work out my way of life in this system. I managed to create a kind of world, paradise for me and my family. This is my way to exist. But those times were gone when I wanted to exorcate the public as much as possible. Now it seems to me that if you create a certain psychological barrier around yourself, a vacuum is exactly waiting for trouble. In short, I learned to trust the world. Rebel.
Relations with a blue Miller were not simple: the couple was divided several times
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- Do you appreciate family bonds, the connection of generations?
- The fact that I married at twenty-two years, says a lot. Already in my youth, I assumed that campaigns in clubs, drinking and marathons will not lead anywhere. I had an extremely happy childhood. I was not hungry, but was not the "gold boy." We were representatives of the English middle class, which everyone finds exclusively boring. And I myself am the same - a very boring person.
- Do you remember your first date?
"I've never been confident guy with regard to relationships and communicating with women." I don't really remember that there was on this first date, but because of my passion for the movie We probably went to watch some new film.
- If you, in your words, are so stronger, how did you learn to communicate with the opposite sex? Now you have it good.
- This ability, I think I owe my mother. She was a wonderful and very strong woman who had a serious impact on my life in general. It was my mother who taught me that it is very important to be pleasant, cute, polite and friendly in relation to the lady. I can never push a woman, not to mention something more aggressive. For such a act, I need to become a scoundrel, and I still do not consider myself that. At a certain age you understand that "works" in handling a woman, and what - no. So, personally, I did not help to be a good guy. The girls, no matter how trivially, love bad boys, so my upbringing was not very helped me. (Smiles.)
- What qualities do you appreciate in women?
- The sense of humor, mind, and (I know it will sound terribly chauvinistically) I adore women who can and love to cook. My mother was a delightful cook, and I myself love to stand at the stove, so it is important for me that the girl can please us with something tasty.
With the current beloved, the psychologist Philip Cohen, the actor "is safely"
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- Apparently, your beloved Philip Cohen meets all your requirements?
- Exactly. I am very, very happy with her. She is mine and more draw. I think the lion's share of our happiness took place thanks to its respect for privacy. She is not a public person, prefers not to endure our attitude to the public. But I will tell you one thing: I could not be more well-being than now. I am glad that Philip does not seek publicly - after all, I have not very good experience behind my back, connected with my first wife and mother's three of my children Sadi Frost. And, as you know, our shortswear with a strong Miller also fell victim to affil the rumors. I can only say that Philip has already met the children and they loved her.
- Is it difficult to be a large father?
- I adore fatherhood! On the one hand, this is an emotional and costly role, but on the other - the best role you will not find. Now my children gradually become good friends, satellites of my life and even wise advisors. My older, Raffu, already twenty-one, daughter Iris - sixteen, she is a successful model. Rudy - fourteen, and younger daughters - eight years and two years.
- The main advice that you got in life?
- He was his author. He said: "If you are late, learn to enjoy the delay." I think that correctly understood it. Are you mistaken? Accept the mistake, try not to be nervous, do not fuss, do not twitch. When not to fix anything, the best way out - calm down and live.