DAVID THORNTON, ACTOR IN THE FILM “THERE AND HERE” OF DARKO LUNGULOV

“It was fantastic working with Darko. He fared incredibly well in working with an international crew. To be more precise – with an international crew from two continents! With a crew including Germans, Japanese, Americans, young and old… It was great working with them. I say that also because the budget for this film was extremely tight and hence the shooting, especially in New York, was like a guerilla action. We have often been forced to change things on the move, but we fared well. The most beautiful thing is that the lack of money bothered nobody. The reason may have lied in the fact that there are no divas in this film, except for one. And she is not a film diva, but a musical one. It’s my wife Cindy Lauper, who has given her wholehearted support to Darko and this film. As you probably already know, she wrote the music for it. Cindy is that kind of person, she will always support a young and relatively unknown author. For someone like Darko, it is very important because he is coming from Serbia, a country with so many bad PR in the recent years. But Serbia is much more than politics and Darko’s film is precisely that; a film about love and interpersonal relations. It’s a nice change.

I have enjoyed the shooting in Serbia and I sincerely hope that before returning to America we will succeed in “connecting the dots” for some new project to work again together on. That’s why I came to Belgrade; I didn’t come only for the premiere of the film “There and Here” on FEST. I came to Belgrade to see whether there’s a chance for a new project with Darko or anyone who has ideas he can articulate. I find working with people from Serbia extremely interesting,” says David Thornton, actor in the film “There and Here”.

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