Jan Englert has four children. The oldest three come from a marriage with Barbara Sołtysik. The couple separated, and the actor remarried to Beata Ścibakówna in 1998. The fruit of their love is 22-year-old Helena Englert, who decided to follow in her parents’ footsteps and is gradually developing her acting career.
Jan Englert was proud of his daughter for going her own way
In 2019, the girl began her studies at the elite Tisch School of the Arts in New York. After a year of studying during the pandemic, Helena Englert gave up studying overseas and decided to return to Poland. He is currently studying at the Theater Academy of Aleksander Zelwerowicz in Warsaw, and a few weeks ago the premiere of the first feature film in which she played the main role. She played the role of a young journalist Inez in Maria Sadowska’s film Temptation.
During the program “Rozmowy Dobry Dobry TVN”, the conversation at some point turned to Englert’s daughter. The host asked him if his sense of being a good educator was shaken when his youngest daughter told him that she did not want him to give her much advice at the beginning of her career. The actor strongly denied:
No no. The other way round. I was grateful to her for that
In the next part of the statement, he stated that the mentality in Poland means that despite the fact that he gave his daughter a free hand and decided not to interfere in her professional life, everyone will still think that what she has achieved is due to him:
Whether I participate in her professional life or not, everyone will say that I “got it” for her. It’s stronger in this country. My older kids had the same thing […]. If someone is ambitious and the children are ambitious, they are fed up with this “dad” who is set as a role model. My daughter’s decision was what probably cured her a little of those Englert ambitions to get to Tisch at NYU. There no one could say that “daddy did it”, because there daddy is “nobody”
Later, Englert started talking about his first marriage to Barbara Sołtysik. He confessed that they wanted to be together until their children grew up, but at some point the feeling between them completely died out. Prokop then asked him a question, referring to his youngest daughter: “Being an ‘absent’ father to three children, did you feel that when Helena, the youngest daughter, was born, you wanted to compensate her?” The actor then replied more about that period, also speaking about his colleagues in the industry:
Did I wonder how Helena was born? NO. I was old enough to be a father-grandfather. That is to have the patience and experience of the grandfather combined with the authority of the father. Helena was a gift, no doubt. Often fathers in jobs that require self-fulfillment have an alibi that they are dedicated to a cause. Everyone, when they talk about children, has remorse. After all, there is not a single interview with my colleague who does not suffer from not spending enough time with his children. Everyone says the same thing and everyone does the same thing
Marcin Prokop replied to the actor that it was “a choice that can be made”. Englert replied: “It wasn’t my choice then. I’ll say the cliché again: it’s okay, calm and relatively optimistic to talk about that part of your life where there is a balance between taking and giving. Each of us has periods of taking and giving in our lives. The comfort of life is provided by balance, balance.
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Source: Gazeta
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