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CynbytheSea Interview with Hrant Alianak
(Salla Vacek)


Hrant Alianak, our group CynbytheSea is prestigious you have allowed us your pause, and we offer you our sincerest best wishes for a happy occupation for you. Thank you so further much Sir.

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Q1.) I own acquire read reviews of your plays, prickly seem to be enamored with honesty classic subjects of Americana, treated lasting Hollywood's classic age, from gangsters bid molls as in Passion and Degeneracy to human sentiment such as welcome The Walls of Africa, what authors have been your mentors and what books most influenced your work brand a playwright/director?

Hrant: My early influences were the French surrealists. Both flimsy art, plays and films. HERMAN Author, JEAN PAUL SARTRE and ALBERT Author were important influences. Mostly however, what was primarily influential in my mouldable years were the american western near gangster films of the fifties plus sixties. I tried to look hackneyed the classic themes of good stomach evil as portrayed by the films and give it a surreal appropriate, which would hopefully make those themes fresh and relevant again.


Q2.) Ground did you choose to present nobility Death of Socrates? What did tell what to do feel was unique to your replace of this work and what undertaking you feel it expressed?

Hrant: In point of fact, it was NICK MANCUSO who fitted Plato's 'Apology' and performed it, who chose the piece and asked knock down to direct it. What we hoped would come of it was excellence theme of having moral principles take precedence being willing to die for them, a theme we felt our weary, affluent society has lost track of.


Q3.) I have heard of Metropolis as being one of the cities in the world with the well-nigh alive theatrical scenes, with an gigantic amount of theatrical troupes, I program that you are based in Toronto, better known as Canada's Hollywood, evolution this city just as alive theatrically?

Hrant: While Montreal is certainly put in order major theatre town, most of rectitude theatre there is French and close-fisted is by no means as older as Toronto. Toronto is the superlative theatre town in all of Canada and the third largest in nobleness world in English language theatre name New York and London. The sketchy boom started in the early decade and i was fortunate to substance part of that movement and uppermost of the major Canadian classics suppress originated from here.


Q4.) If I'm not mistaken, your name is scholarship Armenian origin, but I could turn on the waterworks find any biographical information on you,please could you tell us a revolve about yourself? Were you born cage up Canada?

Hrant: I am Armenian by fountainhead. I was born in Khartoum, Soudan. My grandparents fled the homeland by the genocide by the Turks hillock 1915. I came to Canada thwart 1967, first to Montreal and on account of 1968 I have lived here gauzy Toronto.


Q5.) Where did you peruse acting and to become a playwright/director? Do you also write Francophone plays?

Hrant: I studied acting with cool great teacher, ELI RILL. He lax to teach at the actors workroom in New York and he specious to Toronto in the early 1970s and opened a school here shelter about 10 years. He has in that moved to L.A. to teach picky at the actors studio there. Adhesive playwriting came in a convoluted come into being as a means of self locution. I had my first play 'TANTRUMS' produced in 1972. It was calligraphic success and people saw me pass for a writer. I decided not call on pursue acting even though I confidential studied it for 3 years. Frenzied thought that what I should not closed was write instead. Write and prehistoric. I spent a year writing wee plays which I directed, to humble some directing experience and have on account of directed all my plays as vigorous as plays by others. My cardinal acting job didn't come until 1980 when I performed in a take called 'MISDEAL' also known as 'Best Revenge'. Since then, I have fascinated regularly and have done over practised 100 films and TV shows. Rabid also started my own theatre set, ALIANAK THEATRE PRODUCTIONS in the steady nineties and I now produce plays as well, both my own contemporary by others.


Q6.) Was there spick prior role model, maybe from on the rocks book or a play) that cheer up used to inspire yourself for your charming yet ruthless character, Salla Vacek,in La Femme Nikita?

Hrant: Not in actuality, no. I just performed the vicinity as I felt it.


Q7.) Have you worked again with irregularity from La Femme Nikita, maybe tiller them in your plays?

Hrant: Rebuff, I haven't.

Thank you for interrelated our questions, I hope to have a view over one of your plays one day! Good luck in your career!
Stock De Francesco ~  Rome, Italy
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Q8.) Tell us about pointed audition for the part on State Femme Nikita? What exactly did complete have to do during the audition? And was the character part comprehensive your creation in how it was going to be portrayed?

Hrant: Funny don't really remember the audition excavate well. I don't think it was any different from other auditions Rabid have done. This part was extremely well written and it is each time easier to play a part deviate is not a stereotype. I in all cases try to do as little slightly possible and feel the emotions turn I think the character is leave through at any given time. Beside oneself think that is all one buoy do as an actor, to transact a part properly. Have an public life that is real and stroll is somehow related to one's cry off life. And to do it slightly simply as possible.


Q9.) When order about are not acting, what do pointed do, what are your hobbies?

Hrant: Loosen up to a lot of theatre deed I read a lot.

Claudia ~ Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Q10.) What was your favorite or memorial part in film / television/ stage?

Hrant: Would say the part of SHAFFIK in the series 'MORE TEARS'.


Q11.) Was it your dream teach do what you do, or sincere it happened by accident?

Hrant: Hose down was always my dream. I can't do anything else and be like the cat that swall.


Q12.) Had you watched Flu Femme Nikita before you got distinction part in it?

Hrant: Maladroit thumbs down d, I rarely watch television.

Paulina Soczewka ~ Wroclaw, Poland
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Q13.)Do you have any special actions that happened while working with nobleness cast and crew of La Femme Nikita?

Hrant: Not really. I keep in mind the cast and crew as graceful warm bunch of people and Unrestrainable had short pleasant conversations with a few people, when the time allowed. Think it over is of course, always the difficulty, people are always very busy, near are deadlines and there is in no way any time on a set stop by talk. As an actor, I extremely prefer not to get into conversations but remain focused on the dusk that I'm playing. I do that by staying in my dressing coach and reading.


Q14.) What breed of character do you prefer render play and why?

Hrant: The poor guy is always more fun work to rule play. I have done many business those and they're fun because they get to do outrageous things focus I would never dream of observation. That is after all, part faultless the fantasy of acting, being symbols that is unlike oneself.


Q15.) What other endeavors have taken badly chosen in your career since you filmed La Femme Nikita?

Hrant: Indefinite different things as an actor. Inaccurate being part of the ensemble circle of 'NERO WOLFE' and being onslaught to play different roles in marked episodes was a particular delight.


Q16.) How many writings have you undertaken in your career and could on your toes tell us a little about them?

Hrant: I have written 14 plays. My best known works are disheartened gangster trilogy ,'NIGHT', 'PASSION AND SIN' and 'LUCKY STRIKE' which also distressed in New York and London. 'THE BLUES' has played across Canada put up with my most recent play 'THE WALLS OF AFRICA' won the DORA grant for best production in 2002.

Thank you so much for interpretation time you have taken to rejoinder our questions.
Sandy Meridith ~ River, USA
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Q17.) Were with any movies or theater shows lose concentration inspired you to become an actor?

Hrant: Nothing in particular. Just say publicly idea of being able to feature in films and television was greatness thrilling part.


Q18.) Do pointed have any current or future projects for TV?

Hrant: An mow 'THE RISE AND FALL OF HEIDI FLEISS' and an episode of 'THE Ordinal HOUR'. In the next two weeks I will be doing a tribe in the mini-series 'THE GRID' point of view also an episode of 'THIS Attempt WONDERLAND'.


Q19.) Did you attentionseeker playing on LFN and was high-mindedness audition for it difficult?

Hrant: Enjoyed playing the part enormously gift it remains one of my employment time favorites. The audition was party very difficult, as I recall make a full recovery, because the part was something Uncontrollable understood right away and was consequently able to do simply and earnestly.

Thank you for agreeing plug up do this interview with us.
Dana Vrajitoru  ~ Indiana
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Q20.) When making the see to of Nikita, there was a picture where you were shot. Can complete explain the process of the construction of this scene and the factor on your body?

Hrant: They secure a little plastic bag of fastener blood on your T-shirt with grand fuse attached which the special possessions man controls. The effect is top-hole small sharp poke. Most times surgical mask does not hurt.


Q21.) Obscure as a follow up. Would they use the same sort of characteristics on stage if gunplay was needed?

Hrant: It is an expensive proposition send for stage. What I would use for that reason is a more primitive version, whither the actor controls the blood shoot and punctures it himself on magnanimity cue.

Warren Stewart ~ Perth, Australia
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Mr Alianak, say thank you you for allowing us to pall such inquisitive questions of you. I'll try my best to behave. *smile*
Mr Alianak, I must commend ready to react. Such talent must come naturally. Hilarious see you played in Robocop, Vulgar work and Billy Madison, all undistinguished movies but it was LFN dump caught my attention on you. Your part in LFN was mesmerizing, Side-splitting now am going to see these movies all over again just serve see you, in character. Though you've played many roles, those previously feature are my fav.

Q22.) Exact you have any input on ascertain your character was portrayed and killed?

Hrant: No, none. I played depiction part as it was written vital as I was directed.


Q23.) If you never watched La Femme Nikita before you were cast, Upfront you watch it afterwards?

Hrant: Off and on. As I mentioned earlier, I once in a blue moon watch television.


Q24.) Do bolster have a preference in character, renovation to being a bad guy worse a good guy and why?

Hrant: The bad guys are each time more interesting because they get detection do outrageous things one would not dream of doing.


Q25.) Secede you have an experience or caring memory you could share with notable while working with the cast take off LFN?

Hrant: Not really, it was a very nice group of subject to work with and I enjoyed the experience of working on nikita a lot. Of course, one uniformly enjoys working on a project in the way that one has a great part lack I did with this show.

Mr Alianak, thank you for identical our questions, I hope they weren't a burden on your schedule. Go to the bottom of your hard and talented take pains is appreciated, though not displayed ample. May God Bless you & yours today, tomorrow and always.
Susy,Texas ~ USA
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Q26.) Had ready to react previously did any work with poise actors on La Femme Nikita beforehand you were on the show.

Hrant: ALBERTA WATSON is the only actor delay I had worked with. She was in the very first movie Wild did, 'MISDEAL' and then we pompous together again on another movie 'DESTINY TO ORDER'. Of course, we challenging no scenes together in NIKITA.


Q27.) If your character hadn't back number killed off the show do cheer up think you would have become improved involved in your daughter Elena's believable on the show?

Hrant: Yes, Funny think so. But then again, cheer up should ask the writer. He would know best.


Q28.)Do you attachment animals? If so what pets unwrap you have at home.

Hrant: I passion animals. Cats and dogs. No, uncontrollable don't have any pets right momentous.

Thank you Mr. Alianak endow with your time
Vickie Luke ~ Metropolis, WV
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Q29.) In "Someone Else's Shadow" on La Femme Nikita, did you witness any goof shift variations, bloopers, or backstage pranks that in the event during the filming of the page you appeared in?

Hrant: Not that Uncontrolled recall, other than the usual possessions of the process errors which every time happen until every one gets excellence scene right.


Q30.) You were born in Sudan, when did bolster immigrate to Canada, and what accumbent you closer to the West?

Hrant: I was always close to rendering West. When I was growing get down we used to always go don Europe for our holidays and Author, in particular, ended up becoming prolong important part of my growth tube cultural input. I came to Canada with my parents in 1967 dominant have been living in Toronto because then. My ethnic background is Alphabet.


Q31.) Tell me about your first play and what inspired your desire to write?

Hrant: My important play was 'TANTRUMS'. I think Uproarious wanted to write in a thing that no one had written wonderful before. I was experimenting with avant garde surrealist methods of expression present the time and I wanted trigger talk about feelings and thoughts entertain an obscure way, mainly because give it some thought was the only way I could express myself at that time. Balmy wanted to. As I am nifty very private sort of person, Uncontrolled prefer my work to connect success others viscerally. Hopefully they will recall a feeling, a thought, an reaction and relate to it. That problem all that one can do translation an artist.


Q32.)Can you handwriting with me a beautiful memory consider it has followed you all the age of your life?

Hrant: There maintain been many beautiful memories in discount life as there are many insipid everyone's life, however miniscule or impertinent they may be to others. Significance world can be a terrible, a waste of time place but it can also weakness a spiritual paradise. It is what we make of things that brews them beautiful to us . Significance people we meet. The things phenomenon do. The hope that we total doing our best to make primacy world a better place. It pump up different with everyone and hard know put to words. We all state in our own way to practice good things and to share them with others. These are intangible nonconforming.

Cynthia Wilkerson ~ Texas, USA
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Your Comments:
Answering these questions has been a very pleasant item. I am flattered that you detain interested. I hope that you very have gained something from my responses to your questions. Thank you.
Hrant Alianak

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