Adrija Čepaitė on acting: the world was spinning, and it seemed to me that I was dying from the inside - LRT

2022-08-22 13:38:07 By : Ms. Aishi Cheng

Actress, rhetoric and eloquence specialist Adrija Čepaitė says that the best event in her life was when she realized she no longer knew what competition was.The interviewer is happy that the fortune of life is smiling on her at the moment, but she had to go a long way until then."Age, experience and working with yourself," says rhetoric and eloquence specialist Adrija Čepaitė when asked what brought her to where she is now.The actress admits that the pause in her career as an actress was the most confidence-breaking."In one of the trainings, I was asked: what do you lack before complete happiness?"I didn't think anything at the time, the word "disasters" just jumped out at me.When I started in the theater after my studies, I got a very good position, roles poured in, I was the best actress of the season, it seemed to me that life was full of roses.Later, after leaving the Kaunas Drama Theater, I came to the "Freak Theater", from there I turned to the Lithuanian National Drama Theater and this is where my career ended.I played a very beautiful big role in "Masquerade" in the Vilnius small theater and no one invited me anywhere else.The world was spinning on the outside, and I felt like I was dying on the inside.I felt unnecessary, hopeless, unsuccessful, uninteresting," says the actress.The specialist in rhetoric is glad that at that time she was able to ask herself the right question and look for the reasons why her life turned in such a direction."I asked a very fair question: What is wrong with me?"What am I doing wrong?That's how I went on a long journey, searching, in many different fields, I found many good teachers.It was a difficult path that led me to my current position," says the interviewer.Now A. Čepaitė is a lecturer, she leads breathing, yoga and self-knowledge trainings, but she admits that the best event in her life was when she was freed from competition."The best event of my life was when I realized that I no longer knew what competition was.It's not because there's no one competing with me in my field, I just stopped thinking about it.If someone asks me for help, and I can't help, I confidently send them to other people who work in this field", says A. Čepaitė.The actress, specialist in rhetoric and eloquence has said: "I realized what I was missing in the theater - to be loved."A. Čepaitė boldly admits that the competition she felt in the theater was painful."Competition is an inner feeling.We compete for roles, we go to castings, there are 15 people fighting for one position and it hurts.A person wants to be able to choose, but it is very difficult to be chosen," says the woman.Read more - August 20.in the recording of the program "Labas rytas, Lietuva".