Pilke, who started his career at the age of 11, will be seen in front of the camera again. The latest role work is the main part in the series about the banking crisis of the early 1990s.
In the series, Pilke portrays the fictional Salla Nurmi, a young doctor of economics who gets a job at the Bank Inspection Agency and supervises SKOP of Suomen Säästöpankkien Keskus-Osake-Pankin.
Born in 1990, Pilke himself cannot remember anything from the depression of the 90s.
– It was important when we started doing this that we talked and interviewed people who have some personal experience. Thus, I got an emotional experience of what it really meant when there were problems and the terrible situations that have occurred during the recession, Pilke describes the preparation for the role.
Return to acting after a long break
After this, Pilke appeared in many television series and films. She has won the Jussi award for the best supporting actress for the movie *Forbidden Fruit*.
However, in 2012, when Pilke was 22 years old, a turning point happened. After tough roles, Pilke made the decision that he will not accept the new role offered and the actor’s work will remain.
– Of course, as an actor, it’s probably the wildest decision you can make: to dare to decide that now I can’t do this anymore. It was such a mental state that I no longer have the strength to do this. And I decided – perhaps quite radically – that I would quit.
Pilke now feels that he had given a lot of himself in creative work, but had not been able to work on what it awakened in him. And at that time he still didn’t have the tools to explore and listen to himself better. My own voice and my own boundaries were not so clear.
– When you had kind of already grown into that profession, you felt like you were mentally empty. It was also liberating to get away from that pressure.
Now returning to being an actor is possible again, when balance in life has been found. Pilke lives with his family in the countryside and follows a Buddhist yogic path in his life.
– I found balance in life. And there have been tools for how there is balance in life, and how you can draw from it in this kind of creative work.
In addition to the husband, the family includes two children, but an addition to the family is on the way. Pilke said in the live broadcast of the Half a Day program that she is expecting her third child.