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School of Champions is also regarding the pressure to perform on the way to professional sport. What parallels do you see with an acting career?Our shooting days last twelve hours and the entire team, especially the people behind the camera, invest their entire energy into this work for four months to ultimately achieve a cool end product. And this focus on a big goal is certainly a parallel to professional sports. There’s nothing else besides that.
In recent years, there have been allegations once morest men in acting and skiing who have exploited their position of power over young women. How has the MeToo debate changed your industry?I can only speak for Austria and there is already a noticeable improvement here. For example, it is now almost normal for there to be intimacy coordinators on set (people who mediate between the direction’s ideas and the performers’ limits, especially in intimate scenes, note). This was the exception a few years ago and today it enables a completely new way of working. This partially breaks down the hierarchy between directing and acting and gives you more freedom as an actress because you don’t have to be afraid that something will happen.
You started acting on stage and are now into films. Do you feel arrived?Yes, that is my passion. You build your own character over months as you learn the script. Then you get on set and 20 to 100 people have done the exact same thing, and ultimately all of these ideas come together to create one big, collaborative end product. And with the next project this process starts all over once more. I’m a big fan of this rapid change.
Should a young actress who has a very successful older sister be approached regarding this?Everyone does that. (laughs)
Is that annoying?No, it is a privilege to have Verena as a pioneer. She was the first in our extended family to do something artistic. Of course, I had a role model and I think I was able to find out where I wanted to go much quicker.
Have you already found out where Judith and Verena Altenberger’s talent comes from?I think most likely from our grandmas. They were both very strong women. One was the first mountain midwife in Dorfgastein and the other had to fend for herself early in her life and somehow earn money. At the same time, she always made music and never let that stop her until the end.
This is “School of Champions”
“School of Champions” recently celebrated its big premiere at the Festalm in Bad Hofgastein. From January 22nd, the eight-part ORF series, which was filmed in Gastein and Vienna, will run in prime time on ORF 1. The series follows a year at an elite ski boarding school in the Gastein mountains and shows the rocky path of ten young talents who pursue their dream of success in skiing. Around the premiere, it was also announced that the second season was already in the works.
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