It all started with the famous Secondary School. Stefan Batory in Warsaw, where Joanna Kasperska met Daniel Olbrychski. – I kept sighing at him. I was platonically in love – in one of the interviews. When the young actor was cast in the main role in Andrzej Wajda’s “Ashes”, she decided to skip classes to see him on the set. – I played truant for the first time in my life – in “Angora”.
She played the main role in his directorial debut. This is how Kasperska became Żuławski’s lover
Although he did not reciprocate Kasperska’s feelings, he had great sympathy for her. When he spotted her in the crowd, he offered to show her the plan behind the scenes. It was then that she met Andrzej Żuławski, who was gaining experience under the watchful eye of .
He charmed me
– she admitted in the book “Żuławski. Szaman” by Aleksandra Szarłat. It was then that she also wanted to connect her future with acting, which she eventually succeeded in, because a year later she became a student of the Warsaw theater school. When Żuławski started working on her directorial debut, he decided to invite her to a casting. Although the competition was great, it was she who made the greatest impression on him and he decided to entrust her with the role of Zinaida in the excellent “Pavonocello”.
Despite the eight-year age difference, working together almost immediately turned into… The actress’s relatives were strongly against the relationship, but she did not pay attention to the warnings. It is true that when she found out that the director had a wife, she was shocked, but even that did not change her feelings. – I found out when I was already in love. He loved me too. There is no doubt about it. He pushed for a relationship and treated me more maturely than my age would indicate. He wanted to be Pygmalion, to be a director not only in the cinema. He didn’t succeed with me – she said in “Przegląd”.
He promised that he would leave his wife for her. She finally lost hope and decided to leave
The relationship developed dynamically to such an extent that he suggested Kasperska to live with him, but she felt that she was not ready for such a serious step yet. It so happened that her decision coincided with the director’s trip to Paris, where he was to shoot “The Third Part of the Night”. The actress took advantage of this fact to escape to England. Her business trip, planned for the entire summer, was ultimately cut short after a phone call from her lover, who desperately confessed his love for her.
She returned to the country, but quickly realized that it was a hasty decision, and Żuławski, despite his promises, did nothing to divorce his wife. – He hasn’t had a divorce yet, and there has been no talk of marriage. But he wanted us to live together and have a child. Fortunately, nothing like that happened. To become a mother, you have to mature and come to terms with yourself, and I was too young for that. I ran away, she confessed. It was then that she realized that this relationship had no future and decided that she had to end it.
If I left him, he dragged me away, if I came back, something didn’t stick. Finally I thought: ‘Goodbye! Doesn’t want’
– she mentioned the breakup in his biography. In the meantime, Żuławski’s wife found out about his numerous marriages and the marriage became history. However, the director did not intend to renew his acquaintance with the young actress, and his new partner was her friend, with whom he got married. Kasperska did not despair for long, as she found happiness with the famous set designer, Andrzej Sadowski, with whom she had a son, Jakub.
Source: Gazeta
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