It's a pleasure to be here.
And it's a huge honor for me, because I'm a huge fan
of yours since I was a child.
Because we don't have the same TV in Bulgaria, but we do
have internet.
And I watched you for years on YouTube,
and I cannot believe that this is happening right now.
Thank you so much.
Well, I'm a huge fan of yours.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Congratulations on all of your nominations for the movie.
You're the first-- I mean, I read
that your first Bulgarian to received a Golden Globe
nomination.
But you have to be the first to receive any of those things--
critics, choice, sag, right?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
And that's probably my biggest gift.
Because of this recognition for the role of--
so many Bulgarians, so many people from the Balkans,
and just in general from Eastern Europe, their hopes are bigger.
And their dreams are stronger.
That things can happen, and things are possible.
And that's why I'm so humble that it's
happening, because that's all we want to be seen.
Well, boy are you seen.
I don't think you're seeing a lot.
There's a lot of you to see.
So you're so--
I mean, for those of you who haven't seen the movie,
it is you're so brave.
You take on--
I mean, this is a huge deal for you to do something like this.
Did you take improv classes?
No, I did not.
I was teacher educated for maybe 10 years, exactly.
There's so many things that happen in this movie that
are just have to be able to improvise,
and you committed to this so deeply.
People are saying that you're going
to win an Oscar for this film.
I mean, you are--
it really is.
It's like, you know it's beyond being an amazing actress
and playing this character.
It's also like I said, being able to just go off, and commit
to that.
I don't want to try to explain what the movie is,
so I'm going to let you tell everybody what it's about.
I think how I see the movie the movie is about the [INAUDIBLE]..
For me this is the most important message,
because behind all of the silliness and jokes,
there are some really, really strong messages how
we should treat each other with love, with respect, kind.
Because at the end of the day, we're all equals.
We're all human.
And your gender should not matter,
your ethnicity should not matter,
your religion, your race, your sexual orientation,
because we are here.
We are human, and we should support each other
and love each other more.
And yeah I think especially after this hard year
that we all been through, that kind of movie
that is full of jokes.
But is targeting some really important questions something
that we need it, I hope.
Yeah.
It's definitely something that some people have a hard time
watching and looking at.
It's in your face, and there's a lot of things
that are just like shocking.
But like you said, it does have a message
if you can just pay attention to what that message is.
How scared were you when you had that scene with Rudy Giuliani?
I mean you had to be frightened during that scene.
It was nerve wrecking.
And I do have to admit that I prepared myself really hard
to know every single detail of his life
and be his biggest fan.
And for me is not American person,
it wasn't about the political situation.
It was more about, again, how we treat each other.
And the more I'm thinking about is not even
about how old he is, what is his position.
It's about how he treated me.
And I'm thinking about would he behaved the same way
if I was a man journalist?
Would have he been coming with me in the bedroom, or drinking,
or laughing this way?
I don't know.
That's kind of questions.
Yeah, yeah.
He may have had a drink with a male interviewer,
but he probably wouldn't have done what he was doing.
And then you also one of the things, which is you
had to grow all of your hair out, like all of your hair out.
Yes.
I completely support actually, because a lot of my friends--
not a lot of them, but there are some friends that really
embrace their body hairs.
It was a little bit hard, because it was boiling hot.
And I was living in a hotel.
That's pre-COVID when I started it.
That movie is hard as it is for some of those scenes to watch.
I thought it was hilarious.
I thought you were hilarious.
So congratulations on all the attention you're getting.
And when we're able to have people in the studio,
please come visit us next time, OK?
Thank you so much.
It's a huge pleasure.
Thank you.
A pleasure to meet you too.
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