Sara Souléta is described as the next big movie star in the Nordic countries – now she is excited to return to the theater stage

Sara Soulié from Finnish-Danish speaks eight languages \u200b\u200band starred in several big-class films and TV series. Now he returns to the theater stage in a current play.

– I’m pretty nervous. How did it all go? I’ve always had to work a lot with my voice. I wonder if anything comes from it? How does my body react in front of a large living audience?

For Souli, the moment is both exciting and wonderful. In recent years, he has worked mainly with movies.

Right now he seems to be everywhere.

Last summer, Soulié described Irish-Australian production in Ireland *Mix Tape *, premiered in Australia later this year.

He also played the lead roles in Finnish TV series *Operation Valhalla *and *conflict *. The latter is now sold internationally and has just begun to be presented in France.

The audiovisual sector goes through the crisis and unemployment in the industry is high. Therefore, according to Soulé, it is important to be available, whenever work is available.

– I’m really grateful. I’ve done hundreds of test shots without results. When I was pregnant, I did not get roles, so I also worked in kindergarten.

While Soulié enjoys working on what she loves, long days also require their taxes, and night’s sleep suffers.

-I go through a lot of emotions * in your, Margot * play and the adrenaline levels are high. It takes time to get your sleep.

Burning topicality of alternative truths

* You, Margot* discusses the importance of remembering both Meri Valkama’s novel and on the stage of the Helsinki City Theater. It is a prerequisite for self -understanding.

Without a useful past, the development of intact identity is impossible.

The play asks which version of the past is true? And what happens when what you have believed and trusted begins to break and eventually destroy?

In order to become a complete protagonist, Vilja begins to find out about her past childhood in the DDR in the 1980s. After the death of his father, he learns that his father had lived a dual life with another woman, Luise. In the letters, the woman uses a pseudonym Margot.

The play is very topical in many ways. It has turning points where the reality we have imagined to be permanent and well -established suddenly breaks down.

Just like her role as a role, Sara Soulié has lived in Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin. In the early 2010s, he started as a trainee in the theater group Nya Rampen.

The play has led Soulé to remember the attitude of the East Germans to the fracture of the wall.

Many East Germans, including Margot, felt that Germany was not actually united, but forced into the Federal Republic. In the DDR, Western communication had meant fake news and capitalist propaganda.

-When I lived in East Berlin myself, I did not realize that East Germans felt that much of their history was hidden. It was not possible to talk positively about Eastern Germany. I imagined East Berlin was the slightly cooler side and that everyone was friends when the wall broke. But it wasn’t true.

Sanna Marin -looking

Sara Souli often blends into the plot and identifies with her role. Recently, many roles have revolved around power.

– It works almost like a drug. I get used to power fairly quickly and through role work I found that it becomes a little dependent. It made me understand why politicians could stand again.

Soulé presents the newly elected President of the Republic, whose midsummer celebration is interrupted when an unknown striker takes over the Finnish coastal city.

– The similarity to Sanna Marin has annoyed many, which is interesting. Why shouldn’t a young woman dress in fine clothes and lead the ground?

– They are people who just need to be loved and seen, just like all of us. In this line -up they get the most out of it. But they live a double life that eats them both and eventually all around them.

Luise/Margot goes through dramatic twists, big crises and strong feelings. Childless Luise/Margot is attached to Mark’s daughter’s grain like their own child. Soulé identifies with these feelings, especially for fear of losing his beloved or child.

– I live his life and story and use the same feelings I have experienced myself.

Just like the main character, Vilja, Soulié has lost her own father, who died a couple of years ago.

– After losing a loved one, you begin to look at your own life and yourself in a new way.

In the face of a difficult choice

The division of the play, the forced choice between two important things, speaks personally, especially when thinking about his career. Originally, he had to become a dancer. He studied in Salzburg, Austria for the year. He got to the Theater Academy at the University of the Arts and dance line and was facing a difficult choice.

In Margot’s role, he can take advantage of his dance background and interpret Margot’s state of mind and feelings of dance.

– The words are so final. We use them and interpret them in different ways. The body may show a feeling that resonates more directly in the viewer.

Languages, human figures and stories were things that attracted him to the actor’s profession. He wants to act as a mirror of viewers, where they can project their own feelings and experiences.

– Crying and getting bad in the role is interesting and therapeutic. However, the most important thing is not that as an actor I would go to the therapy in front of viewers. I want to give the viewer that space.

Plays in eight languages

Soulié was born in Denmark for a French-Danish father and a Finnish mother. He has both Danish and Finnish citizenship. Danish identity is a strong part of him. The family moved to Vaasa when Soulié was five years old.

He was placed in a Swedish -speaking school and studied on the Swedish -speaking line at the Theater Academy. She speaks Denmark with her 8-year-old daughter and has put her in a Swedish-speaking school.

– Of course, I am also a Finnish -Swedish person if I am a criterion that I speak language and have become part of Finnish -Swedish culture and community through my education and work events. I’m grateful for that. And I might not have got to work in Sweden without it.

*The play*yours, Margot*premiere, directed by Riikka Oksanen, will be at Helsinki City Theater on February 6th*.