As she sought a performer to play Borat’s daughter Tutar, she had already reached out to Kostov and had asked him to assist in finding young Bulgarian actresses to audition.
The movie went on the festival circle and was seen by Nancy Bishop, the casting director for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. She even traveled with Grozeva and Valchanov to the set of a film the pair were directing and rendered free PA services so she could watch and learn.īakalova was in her third year at the Academy when one of the directors invited her to audition for a very small part in The Father, which Bakalova landed. The top filmmakers taught the only film acting class at the Bulgarian National Academy for Theater and Film Arts while Bakalova was a student there, and she loved it so much she volunteered to help them with scheduling and other tasks so she could attend each week - not only when it was her turn to perform. Grozeva and Valchanov as well as Kostov played key roles in Bakalova’s success with Borat 2, which landed her a 2021 Oscar nomination.īecause acting training in Bulgaria is traditionally geared heavily towards theater, a lot of what Bakalova did learn about movie acting, which helped her give the performance in Borat, she owes to Grozeva and Valchanov, the actress told Deadline in 2020. Sebastian Stan & Maria Bakalova Set For Spy Comedy In Works At Paramount Paul Feig Eyeing To Direct From Jenny Bicks' Scriptīakalova, who will play the lead, and Kostov join leading Bulgarian actors Julian Vergov and The Father star Margita Gosheva in Triumph, a military satire inspired by well-known, wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.įilming on Triumph, part of a movie trilogy by Grozeva and Valchanov that also includes 2014’s The Lesson and 2016’s Glory, is currently underway in Bulgaria.
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