Seela Sella, 88, played her last major role – \”I don’t leave the theater!\”

Actress Seela Sella appeared on stage for the last time in a major role. The last performance of the play about the Holocaust and evil was seen in Tampere.

When Sella finishes her call and makes new entries in her calendar, she has time to sit down at the table. However, there is still coffee to be made before we get to the point.

Sella tops the attention of her last major role. According to the Tampere-born actor, it’s not worth \”tehrä numeroo\”.

However, he no longer wants to bear great responsibility for the success of the working group.

– The performances have a work input for dozens of people. Then it is better to take a sure factor in the role. So that others don’t have to be excited to keep that grandmother now with her post.

In the picture, two people are on stage in atmospheric lighting, one is gesturing strongly with his hand. — The play \”Eichmann – where the night begins\” directed by Kari Paukkunen premiered at the National Theater last April. In the photo, Timo Torikka and Seela Sella.

However, there is nothing wrong with Sella’s physical condition and movement. He flashes into the kitchen to get a coffee pot and pour coffee into the cup while telling about his follow -up plans.

– I don’t leave theater! It’s impossible because theater is my second home. This work is part of me.

Energies in motion

So it’s no wonder that the calendar lying on the table is full of entries.

What on earth does an 88-year-old actor get all his energy?

– About people, about people! Every encounter is interesting. If someone is listening and there is a conversation, I immediately light up. I’m so excited, yes! What are we talking about? In every encounter, something emerges.

A blond -haired woman looking left. — – The magic of the theater is born together with the audience, says Seela Sella.

The work is everything for Sella. He is enthusiastic about his acting method, which seems to be based on energy. It is available from fellow actors, but also from the audience.

It describes how the audience is instinctive after a few minutes. Every performance is reportedly quite different, even though the script goes.

– It’s an exciting moment. The performance just goes in some direction and cannot be turned.

Gloomy world situation brings to the role of pregnancy

As the play progresses, the Jewish Hannah Arendt tries to find the point where evil begins. Adolf Eichmann is known as the designer of the Holocaust and concentration camps.

Sella is Jewish, so Arendt’s role was natural for her.

In the photo, a person is standing on a theater stage, formally dressed, wearing a long coat and a sweater. A dimly lit stage part and a male figure can be seen in the background. — Seela Sella’s role character philosopher Hannah Arendt is trying to trace evil.

Sella’s son and his family live in Israel, so the problems of the Middle East have come close. The biggest worry is about the grandchildren – lest they end up in the war.

The ongoing Gaza conflict has also brought extra pregnancy to the role.

– This has been absolutely terrible. All that guilt about Israel’s actions, and on the other hand, the hatred that has grown again towards the Jews. I can’t carry the entire history of Israel on my shoulders.

Enjoy the joy

Sella believes that the world situation could also have influenced the fact that he had a cerebral infarction in the fall. He collapsed in the convenience store, but got up and started doing voice exercises familiar to actors so that he could speak. He didn’t go to the doctor until the next day.

– Yeah, admitted. Not terribly wise.

Because of the stroke, it is not allowed to drive a car now, and it annoys.

– Now I have to be at the mercy of others. Before, I drove to all gigs by car.

The biggest regret is not being able to drive the beloved Nasu dog to the dog park. The dog is therefore in the care of daughter Ilana.

Sella has always had dogs, and she is a dog person by heart and blood. He says that he gets a lot of energy and joy from Nasu.

You can see from the painting on the dresser that Nasu is a mixed breed, rather large dog. It had been abandoned as garbage in Greece. From there the dog ended up in Finland and in Sella’s care.

The circle closes

Before the last big role work, it does not know the distress. He will only miss the team.

It is particularly happy to decide to make big roles in Tampere on the stage of Eino Salmelainen. He started his career on the same stage at the age of 9.

– I was able to participate in an amateur acting group and I even got a small role. I played such a petulant child. It was fun.

Since that debut, dozens, if not hundreds, of roles have accumulated.

For Sella, acting is a way to live and observe the world.

– You can’t get it out of me, no matter how hard you try.