HC Sparta Prague » David Novotný: I wouldn’t play Slavista
3/10/2022 Marek Taborsky
Sport, and especially Sparta, is an emotional experience for him. It can charge and discharge it at the same time. “I yell at the players and at the same time they rejoice with them,” says actor David Novotný. He was on the ice for Sparta’s hockey title in 990 and found his way back to the ice this past straight1.
You don’t like giving interviews. why?
I feel like I’ve said it all.
What do you answer most often so I can skip this question?
For example, how much Jarda Kužel’s role in the District Championship changed me. Unfortunately, I am already more than David Novotný for people. This annoys me a little after fifty. They judge me if they like me by the way they approach them through the screen into the living room.
They are simply waiting for Jarda Kužela.
Yeah. Slackers and beer drinkers. We meet and they immediately invite me to one. At the same time, I have been abstinent for twenty years. I have to come up with a reaction so I don’t lose a fan and at the same time behave properly towards myself. They often expect that the role I play comes out a lot from me as well. That I give the role my humor, thinking, people-ness. Of course, it’s not 100% me.
Isn’t it because you have played several very similar roles of football fanatics, often Sparta fans? You played them in Koženy slunci, Non plus ultras, Okresní bobor and the TV series Fourth Star. You don’t choose spartans on purpose?
This is a good topic. After fifty, I can tell myself what I don’t want to play, what I don’t want to say. I know that in the comedy series Přešlapy, my role was written for a slavist. I said I just wasn’t going to play it, so they rewrote it to Spartan within two days. The screenwriter was a celebrity and didn’t see it as a problem. In the Leather Sun, when I was still a small puppy, I would not have dared to dictate the terms. I have one message when we go to the pub to get the goalkeeper and there is also a betting office window. There I bet a hundred on Slavia. I wouldn’t say that now. I was just a puppy and didn’t know I didn’t necessarily have to say it. Recently, however, I’ve had too much spartanism.
why?
I’m fine with that, but it automatically pisses off others. Ok, I’m a bit rambling, I don’t mind. I also like such small crumbs. For example, in Hřebejk’s Redl prison, where I play a real KGB scumbag, I drive a zhigulik that has the state license plate ACS 18-93 (the year Sparta football was founded). I didn’t pray for that, it was prepared for me by the prop boys, the great Spartans. I simply wouldn’t play Slavista. The director Tomáš Svoboda invited me to the musical that Viktoria Plzeň was preparing. He wanted me to play coach Pavel Vrba. We may be a little alike, but no one would believe me even if I was there doing somersaults and yelling: “Viktorka!”. It just doesn’t work. They wouldn’t believe me and I wouldn’t even play it believable!
- Which spartan voices in the movies did he confess to?
- What is his memory of the 1990 hockey title?
- Why did he support Slavia and Vsetín against Budějovice?
YOU WILL FIND ANSWERS TO THESE AND OTHER QUESTIONS IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF SPARTA MAGAZINE!
Photo: David Lejček / AC Sparta Prague