Jakub Gierszal: Finds fame in 'Room'

Jakub GierszalSoon to finish the nation's Theater Academy of his native Krakow, 23-year-old Jakub Gierszal made his screen debut in 2008, in Jacek Borcuch's "Everything I Really Like,Inch and adopted it annually later having a supporting role in Andrzej Kondratiuk's "A Million Dollars."However it was his first lead role, because the wealthy, sexually conflicted Dominik in Jan Komasa's "Suicide Room" (which preemed in Panorama finally year's Berlinale) that powered him to worldwide attention.Since that breakthrough, he's toplined in Piotr Mularuk's "Yuma" (in publish), and it is focusing on "Lasting Moments" for Borcuch, opposite The spanish language thesps Angela Molina and Juanjo Ballesta."I love watching old movies and also the veterans of filmmaking," Gierszal states. "And That I really idolize personas who're known today as 'classics' -- people like Marlon Brando, James Dean, Robert P Niro. However the most powerful affect on myself was among my instructors in the drama school I attended in Krakow, due to the initial ability he needed to title the precise mental process happening as i was onstage." As is appropriate for his somewhat peripatetic upbringing -- he spent a part of his childhood in Hamburg, and lives between Krakow and Berlin -- he's intrigued by travel, and also the chance for artistic collaboration it offers: "For me personally, it is extremely vital that you meet up. To utilize supportive people, to collect together to prevent reality as it were and then try to create something that could be interesting, astonishing, touching or whatever."With no people I have met, I would not function as the guy that i'm today. The wider the plethora of your actions, the greater you're able to learn. This is exactly why I'd really appreciate the chance to operate outdoors home country."Go back to the Berlin Preview >> Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com