Maria Bakalova goes from one extreme to another. hunteryharris reports
Photo: Tania Franco Klein Maria Bakalova is not concerned about getting hurt. There’s even a kind of twisted pleasure, she says, in knowing you can endure it. Grinning into her computer camera, the 26-year-old shows me her bruises, remnants of a movie she just shot in her home country of Bulgaria: bluish-green welts covering both elbows, a few scratches still red and inflamed on the back of her hand.
Bakalova and Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo When Bakalova sent in her audition tape to the Borat open call, she had never made a film in English; she says she half-expected a screen test in London to be “a human-trafficking situation.” Instead, she became Baron Cohen’s foil, co-conspirator, and surprise supplanter.
“Am I funny?” Bakalova asks herself aloud. She decides she’s not. “I think I’m just awkward and weird.” Amandla Stenberg and Bakalova in Bodies Bodies Bodies. Photo: Eric Chakeen/A24/Eric Chakeen Bakalova grew up in Burgas, Bulgaria, where she was an accomplished young singer. By high school she wanted to try something new. “I was a drama queen: Life is so difficult! Everything is so bad! I’m depressed about everything! And I wanted to escape,” she says. During a period when she was on vocal rest, an older acting teacher came to work at her school.
The challenge for Bakalova was to let her character flail in her tense, self-conscious way. She thinks of Bee as a first-generation immigrant “still trying to feel the ground,” and while she doesn’t relate to Bee’s personality, she does relate to that experience. The character is often quiet, waiting for a lull in conversation before she can break in. If she makes a joke, it’s mangled by her own tepid delivery. “Maybe, like each of us, she’s going to try to be funny to break the ice.
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