Index – Culture – Júlia Szász about the accident at the National Theatre: I thought I was dead

Index – Culture – Júlia Szász about the accident at the National Theatre: I thought I was dead

Actress Júlia Szász gave a major interview, in which she talked regarding her career, her outlook on life and the accident at the National Theatre.

“I thought I was dead, but it was just the double dose of ketamine they pushed into me. I had really bad hallucinations. I was thinking how good a movie might be made from this point of view, the way the neon lights in the ambulance window go, and those sounds. When I started to clean up, she jumped in saying, oh, shit, this is the hospital, then something is really wrong,” said Júlia Szász regarding her theater accident in the hvg.huin an interview with

As is well known, the actress and actor Ottó Lajos Horváth fell from the upper floor of the set built with iron beams during the Romeo and Juliet performance. Júlia Szász and Ottó Lajos Horváth were seriously injured in the accident, both of them had to be operated on immediately following what happened.

In the interview, Júlia Szász talked regarding, among other things, that

  • she didn’t want to be an actress as a child, but life still led her in that direction.
  • His first filming experiences in the Fallen he scored it in the American romantic fantasy film as a high school student, in the summer following his first year at university The teacher in the RTL series.
  • He has been a member of the National Theater troupe since 2020, and at the time of his accident he played in ten performances.
  • He cried a lot following the press wrote articles regarding his post on his Instagram page, which was available for 24 hours, because he received a lot of attacks because of what was written. “It came off as if I were a teller, even though I shy away from that, and I didn’t even mean to sneeze.”
  • His attitude towards work has changed, he no longer wants to continue the way he has been doing it.
  • When the accident happened, he thought he was going to die: “at the beginning, when I didn’t understand what happened, I just felt that I mightn’t move. Then I thought I was dead, but it was just the double dose of ketamine they pushed into me. I had really bad hallucinations. I was thinking how good a movie might be made from this point of view, the way the neon lights in the ambulance window go, and those sounds. When I started to clean up, he jumped in saying, oh, shit, this is the hospital, then something’s wrong”.
  • After three months, he was able to move home only now, in the last few days, because he would not have been able to climb the stairs before.
  • Before the accident, he was able to handle sadness more easily: at that time, he started walking around the city at an intense pace without a goal, while listening to music.
  • “Before that, I used to go to the gym and do yoga a lot, and I also used exercise as a way to regulate my emotions. If I was oversaturated, it calmed me down. Now I didn’t have this device, and especially in the first two months I had quite strong mood swings. I didn’t know how to get rid of the many things that had accumulated in me”.
  • Since the accident, he has been seeing a psychologist, which helps him a lot in his mental recovery.
  • Recently, he has been very insecure regarding acting, but this is not only because of the accident: “I had symptoms of burnout, and it was often difficult for me to be on stage. Given the state of the profession as a whole, I hesitated as to whether this made sense. I felt that it would only get worse, it was suffocating. Cserhalmi said that since he has been on the field, it has not been so difficult to be an actor”.
  • Without the accident, he would have slowly changed his life, but misfortune intervened, for which he is grateful.
  • “I really want a family, children. It’s more important to me than an international career or anything.”

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