He couldn’t resist a good job, but only for fabulous money. The traditional storytelling with the Vltava became fatal to him. Secrets of celebrities
12/31/2021
Photo: Courtesy of TV Nova – Jan Kroupa
Description: Jan Tříska as Alois’ not very popular grandfather in the family television series Nova from 2016 Dear Neighbors
VIDEO He became a living legend, but he worked on himself all the time and never got anything for free. Thanks to that, he didn’t even get lost behind the Great Puddle later, even though he had to work hard again and wait a few Fridays for a bigger role. (Continued from Wednesday, December 29)
Even in exile, Jan Tříska, as one of the few Czech actors, managed to establish himself in theater and was also given the opportunity on television, for example in the popular American series Falcon Crest, Airwolf and Hunter. He often worked with Miloš Forman, for example in the famous drama Ragtime, in the film People versus Larry Flynt, where he played the character of the shooter, or in the action thriller Ronin, where he played alongside Robert De Niro and Jean Reno. But that was at a time when he was free to return home to Bohemia and once again regularly excelled in front of Czech cameras and on stage.
Andersonville Prison:
Excited American
He was one of the personalities after the November Revolution, and the Czechs were really looking forward to this return. He arrived early, but he was different than before. Hardly professional, very hard on himself, and we didn’t wear much. “I always wonder when I meet people twenty years younger and say, man, I’ll be retired at the cottage. And I ask, what are you going to do there? Well chopping wood, man. I nod my head over it. I don’t comment on it, but I don’t understand it, “said Scarlet Wilková, editor of MF Dnes. He returned to the screen for the first time in the film Elementary School, in which, after years, his wife Karel finally reappeared in front of the camera as a post office clerk. For her, it really meant a return, because after leaving Czechoslovakia, she resigned her acting career. She started working as a hostess and eventually worked her way up to the manager of the luxury hotel Bel Air in Hollywood.
Madness:
(in an allegory of the contemporary world, which he shot in 2005
based on EA Poe’s short stories by Jan Švankmajer)
Fame or money?
The well-known ascetic, vegetarian, abstinent, non-smoker and athlete returned very often, he cannot resist any good role. In 2002, he received the Alfred Radok Award for the lead role of King Lear at the Summer Shakespeare Festival, and a year later he added a second Oscar nomination for Old Gorčík in the romantic drama directed by Ondřej Trojan Želara. But he certainly did not return only out of nostalgia. He appeared, for example, in one episode of director Tomáš Magnuska’s series Traces of Life, and in a few minutes in front of the camera, the series collected almost a quarter of a million. In addition, the production paid for a ticket from the United States. In 2015, he did not resist the main role in the performance Shylock at the Na Jezerce Theater in Prague, but the premiere had to be postponed, Tříska crashed in California and ended up in the hospital, and Milan Kňažko eventually took over the role. A year later, he appeared in the ‘novice’ series Dear Neighbors as the ugly, overgrown, and eternally ‘dull’ grandfather Alois.
May:
A gift for the eighties
For the last rounds, he was given the opportunity to return to the screen in the continuation of Jan Svěrák Primary School, called Po stubiži barefoot. “It’s a good script, it’s very interesting, but it has very extremely bitter topics, which makes the script very interesting. The future film will be wonderful and in my humble opinion it is doomed to success, “he said in Radiožurnál on the day, admitting that every actor has the same bitterness and bitterness as his film grandfather, so it’s not hard to show. “An actor couldn’t play Hamlet, King Leary, Jaga, and Shylocky if he couldn’t play a very negative, tragic character based on death, anger, resentment, murder, if he didn’t have the ability to discover it.” others also returned to their emigration and admitted that he had never missed his homeland. “Life is not a birdhouse, you can’t change countries like dormer pigeons.” In September 2017, he came to Prague again to play the main character in the film On the Roof. And that was fatal for him.
One hand does not clap:
Bad luck where you look
The planned project was haunted by bad luck from the very beginning. The story of a lonely old gentleman who is invaded by a Vietnamese life was supposed to start filming on Monday, September 25, so on Saturday afternoon Jan Tříska went to Prague’s Charles Bridge to say his ritual and talk about the new with his native Prague and prudently flowing on the Vltava. His unfortunate fall from the ancient bridge was recorded by crowds, two passengers from the passing ship immediately jumped for him and revived him until the rescuers arrived. Rescuers put him to an artificial sleep and took him to the Central Military Hospital, where he succumbed to a serious injury on September 25. According to the results of the police investigation, it was an unfortunate coincidence, he probably got dizzy. And the art world has lost forever and an irreplaceable personality.
Entered by: Adina Janovská