"Our job is to activate all those sediments that we carry inside us, to shape them artistically and give them form. I feel like I'm running with my life all the time, because I realized in time that acting is a marathon," said actor Predrag Eidus on Wednesday in Podgorica.
A monograph on Ejdus, the doyen of theater in the former Yugoslavia, was presented in the City Bookstore. In 2008, Ejdus received the "Dobricin prsten" lifetime achievement award, which includes the publication of a book about the life and work of the laureate.
The famous actor told the audience in Podgorica that although he has played over 200 theater roles, he does not feel tired because he realized a long time ago that acting is a marathon.
"It is a privilege to be in that actor's 'Pantheon' in which there are both living and dead great artists whom I admired as a youth"
"Until the first year of high school, I thought of myself as an athlete, I practiced football and a little tennis"
The first chapter of the monograph is entitled "Predrag Eidus, with him alone" and is an exhaustive confession of the artist on about 100 pages with analytical reviews of his most successful artistic creations.
They came out of the shoot covered in blood
Eidus also talked about his beginnings as an actor, and his acting studies, during which students were forbidden to appear in plays.
"When I studied, in the first and second year, professional acting was forbidden. However, I then started my career as a radio stuntman. The legendary director on the radio at that time was Darko Tatić, who liked to experiment. He secretly invited us to work for him and that suited us because the fee was paid immediately after the recording. What was important to him were the sound effects."
"He, my friend Brane Zamov and I would stay after filming to do those effects. Now, Tatić imagined that he needed a sound effect, 'a blunt object falling from the third floor', and that blunt object was Zamov and I. Falling just down the wooden stairs, there was also the breaking of a mirror on our head. We left the shoot covered in blood, but it suited us because of the money we earned and spent in the "Grmeč" tavern in Belgrade," recalled Ejdus.
Svetlana Bojković on a big vacation
The moment when he decided to pursue acting is related to his high school days.
I especially loved music, I even had my own little band. Well, then there was a big break in the 14th Belgrade high school...
"At the time, I didn't even know what a recital was, and I thought it was her excuse to court me. The first thing I asked her was if she was going to school. She explained to me that anyone she chooses can, with the principal's approval, are absent from classes. I immediately accepted too, and told her that I adored the recital (even though I didn't know what it was). Svetlana was the director, made the choice of the participants, gave instructions. Zorica Šumadinac, Goran Sultanović, Svetlana, myself took part in the recital and two other female colleagues who later did not act professionally," said Eidus.
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