“What do you mean by that?” Radosz asked further. “Did Mr. Brylski spend too much time on the set?”
“On the set, outside of it...” Anita Janiszek gritted her teeth but she was already in the place from which she could not withdraw, so she continued “Make-up at five in the morning, although during the day he shoots three scenes and the first is at ten. Rafał spends his time on the set until eleven o'clock in the evening just to do some reshoots that could have been done two hours earlier. Yes, six, sometimes seven days in a row. The director changes his mind every five minutes and tells him to repeat scenes endlessly, although even old actors say that Rafał played well... And Różycki's comments...”
A cold sweat splashed over Radosz's back. If Janiszek's words are not very exaggerated (and it will be easy to verify), it meant that the production of The Fifth Capital really had a problem. And it was not only one.
Anita Janiszek nodded. She seemed to have reached a state where she didn't want to or couldn't hide anything anymore.“Różycki suggests that Rafał's incompetence costs everyone additional work and time. As a result, many people have become hostile to Rafał and the atmosphere on the set is a bit… heavy.”Damian didn't get to notice it while on set, but he was only there for half an hour and he focused on the shooting itself rather than the atmosphere. Anyway, at that moment, I think everyone just wanted to do their job and get out of the scorching sun that attacked so suddenly. People were too rushed to have time to linger.However, if Anita Janiszek is not exaggerating, if everything she says is true, the actor playing the main character in Damian's series is really not easy.Radosz adhered to the principle that although dozens, sometimes even hundreds of people work for the success of the entire series, the actors playing the ma
“Me?” Rafał was surprised honestly, in fact a bit naively, Brylski. “Mrs. Marzena is more experienced, she is a real actress...”‘Mrs. Marzena’ was Marzena Skierska, an actress older than Rafał by a year, with a diploma from the Łódź Film School at the Acting Department. She had already starred in one movie and had a supporting role in one series that ran on for five years now. She was far from being a star and Radosz was not convinced of her potential for the future, but Skierska was Różycki's choice. Since Damian really did not have any candidates for this role, he agreed to Marzena.Poland is a country where polite relations and polite forms of "mister" and "missis" are normally maintained, but usually at work, when the difference in age and positions was not large, young people quickly switched to "you", i.e. they resigned from the official polite form. It seemed that despite six weeks of shooting, the young woman s
Already another day of the heat from sky as strong as if they had just experienced the heat of the century. Soon, it was supposed to turn out, that this indeed was one of the two most hot June in Poland in the last two centuries. None of the living did not remember this month was so hot. Damian Radosz instinctively hid under the trees looking for a bit of shadow and cool. He suspected that if not for a cool wind, which caused that the air did not happen in place, in a few minutes the heat would be unbearable for him. He remembered the scene when dressed in a costume from the sixteenth century Brylski stood on the roof in full sun for more than half an hour. At an air temperature reaching almost forty degrees in the shade, the actor could not withstand such working conditions. It was simply impossible. Nevertheless, Brylski stood patiently and waited. He dripped then, breathed, but he waited for the word ‘action’ with such a focus, as if he was just preparing
“To some extent, yes,” Radosz admitted glancing towards the man sitting next to him, “but that was not the decisive point. You see, in Poland there are a lot of people famous for being famous, but nobody gives them a chance to play the main role. Do you watch k-dramas or c-dramas?”"Er," Brylski hesitated, and then helplessly admitted, "I'm afraid I don't know what it is."“These are series produced in South Korea and China. There are also J-dramas produced in Japan, but we are not talking about those yet. Have you seen any series of this type?”“I don't remember seeing anything like that...”“I am not surprised at all, because no Polish television shows them and people watch them primarily on the web, on internet platforms. In addition, these dramas rarely have Polish subtitles, so they are watched almost exclusively by people who are good with the English language” Radosz explained further. &ld
“You're mad at me, aren't you?” Rafał asked, although he knew the answer perfectly well. Anita didn't say anything, but it was her silence that spoke the most.Rafał felt anxious. He didn't like when Anita was angry with him. The girl was too important to him, in too many ways. He didn't like it even more when he didn't understand where her anger was coming from, because he couldn't correct his mistake then. And that's how it was now.They were in his hotel room, which they had just entered. It was not an apartment, a simple, small single room, no living room, no fruit basket and fresh flowers, with the only convenience in the form of a bathroom with a shower, sink and toilet. On the beige wall hung a cheap picture from a bookstore, showing a basket of roses. There was a dense curtain in the window with no curtains or blinds. An ordinary, small and modest room in an ordinary small and modest hotel.But Rafał did not need the comforts of space. A bed
Anita was just so worried about him that his self-will, potentially damaging to himself, was upsetting her. After all, even if your little brother becomes an adult, he starts a family, for you he will always be that little boy you have to look after.Rafał knew about it, understood it and not only accepted it, but was grateful for it.“Anita, I really appreciate how much you care about me. I know that as long as I have you by my side, I am completely safe” Brylski said with a smile. He did not exaggerate with his statement at all. Anita really was a moral and physical rock to him. “I can always rely on you.”“Nevertheless, I let you down ... You had a heat stroke” Janiszek complained, not to him, to herself and to the lack of due care on her part.Anita shouldn't blame herself for this situation. She absolutely shouldn't blame herself.“It was an accident” Rafał reminded her with all conviction and wa
The door behind Anita closed and Rafał Brylski was left alone. He was used to being alone, but he couldn't help but miss people a lot at times.Rafał was enviously looking at his colleagues from the set, who after work went to eat something together or for a beer. He looked longingly at those who talked to their loved ones on the phone. Every person in this world, it seemed, had someone but him.No, it's not true, Rafał had Anita, but Anita was with him always and forever. He longed for someone who would give him the thrill of discovering, meeting someone new and gaining new experiences. It wasn't a selfish, bad desire, was it?In primary school, then in high school, and finally at the university, Brylski always had many friends. But he wasn't particularly close to anyone, because if he let them come closer, they would discover who he really was and leave him, just like the others before them. So Rafał preferred to avoid this disappointment. Although he missed p
No, the behavior of director Różycki could not have had such bad intentions. It had to be a misunderstanding. Damian refused to believe that anyone would intentionally endanger the actor working for him.Różycki probably did not think about the consequences that this glaring sun could do for Brylski. Maybe he didn't even really plan this whole wait extension (after all, who would have predicted that the actress would have the braid unhooked?), But the fact was that if the camera was not ready, if they were just about to test a new shot, there should be an understudy on the roof - a professional stuntman who can easily cope with all circumstances, not an amateur actor, whom the director points out to lack professionalism every five minutes.This, however, could only be a one-off incident. What Radosz saw was disturbing, but did not yet constitute evidence of mobbing. The heat could disturb Różycki's clarity of thinking, after all, the director was n