- [Toni Gojanovic] It is the whole creation folklore
that we get to see in the series.
It's the music, it's the tradition, it's the food.
So these elements all sort of
enriched the story and the setting.
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- [Kazia Pelka] Developing the Croatian accent,
one thing that I found very helpful
was sort of, to keep a machine gun
type of delivery a little bit.
It's less lyrical.
They're sort, bababababa, bababababa,
and not always, you're quite often
going down an inflection at the end.
It was great having Toni and Petar and
you know, we were helping each other.
They were carefully working on their English accents,
and I was working on my Croatian,
and hopefully, you know, we'll have,
we'll have got there.
(laughter)
- [Dubravka Mimica] Have you been there Helen?
- [Hannah Laing] To Croatia? Yeah. Yeah.
Couple of times on holiday when Christian was small.
- Where did you go?
- Oh, we went to an island, Hvar.
- [Stefan Vargic] It's pronounced Hvar.
- Hvar, Hvar?
(laughter)
- [Davor Mimica] Yeah, perfect.
- [Toni] We would go through the lines
and just tweaked on them, and worked
on them, and maybe correct them if needed.
But, my fellow colleagues are, they're very,
very passionate about their roles,
and they did a very good research.
Very, very, you know, they dwell into the subject.
(phone landing on floor)
- [Bianca Mimica] You have two phones.
- [Zvonomir] What's going on?
- [Christian Radic] Oh, I was just, dropped my phone.
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- Anything to eat?
- Pasticada.
- [Issy Knopfler] In my one very important Croatian word
that I say,
(laughter)
which is, pasticada,
which is the dish that Bianca makes downstairs.
And I remember the first reading that we did,
and I butchered it so badly, and they both laughed
at me so hard.
But I've definitely been very lucky
in that respect because so many other, you know,
actors on this job who are not Croatian,
have had to learn Croatian words and sentences,
and just generally and make it sound
really, really good.
So we've been so lucky to have Croatian actors
on set with us who have been very generous with their time.
- Be happy.
We can't have you making everyone miserable
at my birthday party.
- [Kazia] For my birthday party, we, it was absolutely
fantastic; it was a fantastic set of scenes to shoot.
And we had a brilliant accordionist called Evo,
and he came along and Rino, who plays Pavel or Pavle,
I can't remember what we're calling him at the moment,
he's been one of the other,
he and I started dance sing a little bit
and Jan decided to keep that in.
And I liked that fact that all
of a sudden he became one of her favorite boys.
He was very attentive to Dubravka,
and that was great because all of a sudden
we found a relationship that wasn't necessarily
in the script, but it worked very well.
- Where's Bianca?
- I'm here Mama.
(clapping)
- [Toni] You know, historically speaking,
and from the cultural landscape, you know, there
has been a reason why the families had such a strong bond
because they were economically and socially
depending on each other very much.
And whereas in the Western countries,
the socioeconomic environment was a completely
different one.
So they didn't need to have these strong bonds
in order to survive.
Yeah. I mean, every part of the world
has its own sort of, spec,
Spec, how do you say it?
Specific, specific?
Spetificy, yeah. You know what I mean?
(laughter)
Okay.
- You're just such a disappointment.
I owe you an apology.
- Can't be too careful.
- It's, I don't understand why Stefan
would point the finger at you.
- Maybe he thinks I'm muscling in on his place
in the family.
- [Petar Cvirn] I hope our audience will actually, Croatian
audience, Balkan audiences, I'm sure they will see.
They will appreciate this.
And it's always nice to hear your own language
in an international project.
You know, it's simply it's, I guess people
will feel proud and happy, and maybe international audiences
will be more interested in Croatia.
So, yeah, it's, I think this is another nice way
of representing our roots and our origins.
I really hope people will love us regardless
of us being criminals.
So, we are not just criminals in Croatia.
(laughter)
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(clapping)