Serbian actor Miloš Biković gained popularity in Montenegro and the region with his role in the film and series "Montevideo Bog te video", after which the audience saw him in the series "Professor Kosta Vujić's Hat" and "Married Single".
Now fans can watch him on cinema screens as the Yugoslav basketball player Radomir Šaper in the movie "We will be the champions of the world", and at the beginning of the interview with Vijesti, Biković listed the reasons why he accepted the role in this production.
"Because of a good production that does quality projects, because I think that Darko Bajić is a good director, because of the script that was good and the role that gave me space to do something different from what I did, for example in 'Montevideo...' ", he explained.
The actor also revealed that initially it was not planned that his colleagues Strahinja Blažić, Aleksandar Radojičić, Marko Janketić and he would play their characters in all time periods.
"There was an original idea that we would play our younger characters, there were six or seven actors in circulation, and that our older heroes would be played by more serious and so to speak "older" actors," said Biković.
"But then, together with Darko, we came to a common position that they are actually the same people, who just got some wrinkles and gray hair and are a little older. These are the same boys who dreamed a dream and had that vision, which they realized 25 years later..." said the actor.
He admits that he didn't know much about his character, Shaper, before filming began.
"I found out most of the things thanks to the production company, the material they provided me with, and reading Aleksandar Miletić's book 'Jazz Basket,'" said Biković, who also revealed what excited him about the new information.
"He was an exceptional man. He is one of the people, that is, if he is not the author of that idea, he certainly contributed a lot to the introduction of the three-point shot rule in basketball," recounts Biković.
"He was the head of the technical commission of FIBA. And that entire generation, Bora Stanković, Šaper, Aleksandar Nikolić, Nebojša Popović, were people who were highly respected. Who created modern European and Yugoslav basketball," he continues.
"They created a special style of Yugoslav basketball that was based on the Russian system and American improvisation, so a mixture of East and West", he explains and adds that it is always a good recipe.
"Whenever we learn from other nations that develop their sports, culture and art, we always manage to achieve top results," emphasizes Biković.
He says that it was much easier for him to play a basketball player than a football player, mainly because basketball at that time was not at today's level.
"Technique has now advanced and now you have a soft handling of the ball, a shot that has a good landing... They shot much harder then and the movements were harder, and people were not used to basketball...", he says and points out that the playing back then was far from the NBA style.
He has already become an "older" actor
Miloš Biković states that he is especially happy because during the filming of the current film, he collaborated with younger actors.
"Strahinja Blažić is a student of my mentor and I am now an assistant in that class, so already after 'Montevideo', 'Professor Kosta Vujić's Hat' and 'When Love is Late', the younger generations started to come and look at me as if I were older," he says.
"It seems that I made my debut just yesterday and today I already feel that we are not debutants, that new generations are coming who will take over the baton and be young actors, and we will move on, time passes quickly...", concludes Biković, who is not sure that he will visit the premieres in the region because of the performances.
"I'm preparing a play in Belgrade, which I will start playing in the spring, and I'm negotiating a project in Russia, but I can't say anything more than that," he hinted.
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