Q N' A with Ricardo Silenzie

Ricardo Silenzie is well an actor best known in an action movie titled #66. But not a lot people know he is also a student in Tarumanagara University majoring in Communication Studies. One of our editorial staff had an exclusive interview with Ricardo Silenzie.

Q: How long does it takes to shoot a movie?

A: On the production and shooting part, it takes two months, but there is three parts in a film making. Pre-production is to prepare, production, and post-production. In pre-production we have to preparing, search for locations, casting talents and artists, search for sponsors and investors. Shooting takes two months. Post-production is to promote the film, talk to the cinemas. Overall it would take less than a year.

Q : What are the ups and downs acting in a movie?

A: Let me start from the downs. Talking about action film, the first challenge is having big risk being injured while acting action stuff that could be mild or even fatal. Our choreographer who also acted in the film #66 had an injury. Shattered glass was stabbed on his leg.  I myself have had his joints injured and a few bruises on elbows and legs because of the fighters were lack of control so they hit bones. Maybe, other downs are that filming an action movie took a long time and a lot of energy to film. But on the other side, Ricardo told us that #66 movie is a different project, as an action movie the spirit is different, and having the previous project won awards from film festival, they always are happy on every project to maintain their movie quality.  The crew is also solid and felt like a family to him, so when they are shooting they felt happy even though they are tired.

Q: Managing time between being an actor and a student is not an easy thing to do.How do you manage your time between studying and working?

A:  For shooting part, I am more contributing to the film making part. So, firstly in I pay attention when teacher speaks and does my homework afterwards. I also did my homework on my break time at work sometimes. But when it’s time to have meetings and other work related stuff, I focus on his work. The key is to maximize the time I owns as possible and not wasting time.

Q: What are your hopes for Indonesian’s film industry afterwards?

A: I hope for the future, film tenants and audiences could love Indonesian movies more, so Indonesian’s film industry could rise again after all this time is being dimmed. Maybe it’s because of they have lost its competitiveness against Hollywood movies and Indonesian had the thought that Hollywood movies are better than Indonesians. In the film #66 we want to show that Indonesian’s work can have certain quality just like Hollywood’s and won a lot of film festivals like Hollywood movies and I hope Indonesia’s product such as movies could be supported by Indonesian, and more production house that brings up stories from Indonesia, not stories from Hollywood.

Q: Do you have any plans to do more acting after this movie?

A: I don’t know yet about my next act, because it depends on my production house. But I looks forward for another film; he always wants to create good quality stuff that could be accepted by Indonesians and other counties also.