Jêdrusik interrupted the recording of the kiss scene with Olbrychski.  “She told the director that she would vomit”

Jêdrusik interrupted the recording of the kiss scene with Olbrychski. “She told the director that she would vomit”

Andrzej Wajda’s “The Promised Land” is one of the most important films in the history of Polish post-war cinema and at the same time in the career of Kalina Jêdrusik, who played the main female role in it. On the screen she formed a duet with Daniel Olbrychski. Their two passionate scenes are remembered by many. Despite the success and many positive reviews, Jędrusik did not have the best memories of working on the set.

she was one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation, and her undeniable and sexy beauty earned her the title of the chief sex bomb of the Polish People’s Republic. Although she has had many outstanding titles to her credit, the most important are “Jowita” by Janusz Morgenstern and “The Promised Land” by Andrzej Wajda, in which she appeared alongside .

Scenes from “The Promised Land” caused a moral scandal. This influenced Jędrusik’s image

It is no secret that Jędrusik consciously used her charms to create a controversial image. – She was unrestrained by anything and wanted to transfer her image from fiction to life – the author of her biography, in an interview for Radio Three. However, this often had the opposite effect than intended. Although the character of Lucy Zucker in the second film is considered one of the most important female acting roles in Polish cinematography, it was her role that cemented her position as a scandalous actress. Perfect Remigiusz Grzela in the book “Who will be as bad for you as with me”.

Jędrusik in the film is fierce, coarse, wonderfully vulgar, absolutely prudish.

What’s more, apparently before entering the set, he persuaded her to undress in front of the camera, but she categorically refused, because although she was considered liberated, she wanted to capture the imagination only with words. Her on-screen partner, Daniel Olbrychski, also influenced the rumors. Even though she did not appear in a negligee in “The Promised Land”, both the passionate scene on the train and in the carriage made many people blush and became a moral scandal. The actor himself willingly told various anecdotes from the set and suggested that it was not just acting. He even claimed that he exposed himself to his friend. What was it really like?

Jędrusik did not like playing with Olbrychski. The actress’ step-daughter revealed her secret

His revelations were firmly denied by Aleksandra Wierzbicka, whom Jędrusik treated as her step-daughter. In the book “Kalina Jędrusik. A Daughter’s Tale by Choice” she confessed that Olbrychski himself admitted to her, to put it mildly, confabulation in this regard.

She certainly didn’t do anything like that with him. (…) I met Daniel once in the Kalinowe Serce café in Żoliborz and told him to stop saying such nonsense. He was very confused and admitted that he had exaggerated

– she recalled. But that’s not the end. Although she created many passionate scenes on screen with Olbrychski, she actually hated playing with him. The main reason was his allegedly bad breath. According to Wierzbicka’s account, eight years earlier, during the recording of “Jowita”, when Morgenstern asked several times to double the kissing scene, she interrupted the shooting and asked him to talk to him in private.

She said that if there was another double, the director would have to put on a black wig and play it himself, because she was about to vomit. Kalina claimed that Daniel had disgustingly dried saliva in the corners of his mouth, and his hands and mouth smelled of cigarettes. She said he smoked sports without a filter

– she described in the book.

Source: Gazeta

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