Viewties | #51 - Piotr Adamczyk

NOV. 2021

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Piotr Adamczyk Photographed by Kirsten Miccoli

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ON THE COVER PIOTR ADAMCZYK

BY KIRSTEN MICCOLI FOR VIEWTIES.

Piotr Adamczyk, p10 The actor chats about being part of Marvel universe in Disney+ ‘Hawkeye’.

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Piotr Adamczyk

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nown worldwide for his magnificent performance as Pope John Paul II

in the international hit films, Karol, A Man Who Became Pope and the sequel, Karol: The Pope, Piotr Adamczyk was led to Polish stardom when he played Frederic Chopin in Chopin, Desire of Love. His versatility and ability to embody vastly different characters, range from anguished saints to ruthless oppressors, from melancholy composers to love sick fools.

Next, Piotr plays ‘Tomas’, a member of the tracksuit Mafiain,

in Marvel’s

Hawkeye streaming on Disney+. He is currently recurring on Amazon’s Lightyears, for Oscar-winning director and executive producer Juan José Campanella – opposite Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons. He also has a major recurring role in the second (2021) and third (2022) seasons of Apple’s For All Mankind.

In conversation with Viewties, the Poland star answers all our questions about his past and present projects along with his new role in Hawkeye.

Photography Kirsten Miccoli - Grooming Kerre Berry with Lab Artists Styling Marta Cebrat with Lab Artists - Words Vanesa Miraglia

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V: First of all, I want to say that your performance as Pope John Paul II in the international hit films, Karol: A Man Who Became Pope and the sequel, Karol: The Pope, The Man is just outstanding. I supposed playing this role was a big challenge for you as you had to change physically and I believe this was fun too because it's a character very different from yourself in image as a whole. What has this experience taught you regarding your own acting skills?

I probably didn't even dare to dream that I would be in a Marvel project.

able on Apple TV. I think it was much easier for me to ork on the role since English was not the first language for Sergey and myself, and knowing Russian made it easier for me to work on his Russian accent. I'm proud of the experience of playing characters in languages I don't know: Swedish, German, and even as completely unknown to me as Japanese or Arabic. The most significant risk is that the difficulty of pronunciation does not obscure what is most important in acting - the relatability of emotions.

Piotr - I am really delightfully shocked that you are asking about this role, which I played so many years ago. I was 30 then, and it was quite a lucky break to play Karol Wojtyła and portray his life from the time of his youth in wartime Poland, through his difficult path in the socialist reality after the war, his pontificate, Parkinson's disease until the last moments of John Paul II's life, who died at the age of 84 years old. At that time, I already had the experience of playing Fryderyk Chopin in Jerzy Antczak's film "Chopin - Desire for Love," but the role of the Pope brought additional difficulties. When we started shooting the film about the Pope, John Paul II was alive, and I even got to meet him. The whole world followed his struggle with the disease. Everyone knew precisely his gestures, manner of speaking, charisma. The task of portraying a living legend was a hundred times more difficult. Director Giacomo Battiato helped me by saying: we are creating a portrait of this man as an interpretation of this story. Our film was watched by over 800 million viewers around the world. To this day, I receive messages from viewers who were moved by our film.

V: I can't wait to see you next in Marvel's Hawkeye, playing the role of 'Tomas.' How did it feel booking the role in this big production?

Piotr - My manager admitted that it was not easy for him to convince the casting director to invite me to audition.

Probably in the photos he sent, I didn't look convincing as a member of the New York Mafia. But we then sent pictures I had from a film I shot called Women Of Mafia 2, and it got their attention.

V: How was it getting into character, and can you say about how you prepared to portray him?

V: I also like that you are fluent in many languages and actually, your English is pretty good! What do you do to speak the accent correctly when you act in another language, not your native one? Don't you feel insecure or nervous when you have to speak?

Piotr - This role required a big change in appearance and way of speaking. But my Polish was useful. I felt as if I was fulfilling my childhood dreams. We took part in scenes of chases and fights. And all in the Marvel universe. As a child, I probably didn't even dare to dream that I would be in a Marvel project.

Piotr - I envy the younger generation that thanks to technology, learning foreign languages is so much easier.

When I was a child, Poland was still behind the Iron Curtain. At school, we learned the only available foreign language - Russian. I was lucky that my neighbor was a British woman who was driven by love to this gray Polish reality at the time. Later, when I was a student at the Theater Academy in Warsaw, I obtained a scholarship in London thanks to my knowledge of English. Russian came in handy for my role as Sergei Nikulov, a Soviet scientist in the series "For All Mankind,” and two seasons are avail-

V: Was there one scene in the series that was particularly taxing for you?

Piotr - All the scenes. Every shooting days was a great adventure. I also understood what the phenomenon of Marvel's productions are about. We returned to some scenes several times to improvise and improve something.

This artisanal, artistic honesty and lack of compromise in making each shot perfect, opened my eyes to how films should be made.

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V: This show has a beautiful cast! How was meeting them and working alongside these talented people?

Piotr - The wonderful thing about big stars like Jeremy Renner and Heilee Stanfield is that they are wonderful, friendly and real down to earth people. We had the opportunity to spend some time together outside the set. Thanks to this, the atmosphere at work was extremely relaxed and although we were shooting scenes that required concentration, there were also funny mishaps when, for example, in a dialogue with Jeremy, I twisted the words and we started to improvise until the whole team was bursting with laughter ...

V: What did you enjoy most about filming this production?

Piotr - People I have met. Filmmakers are people who are extremely devoted to their passion, which often requires sacrifices - such as long separation from the family. You really have to love this profession to cultivate it at a high level.

Observing the professionalism of the entire team, watching the backstage of demanding stunt scenes, but most of all a great group of my colleagues from Tracksuit mafia, with whom we started to create a real tight pack of Bros.

Aleks Paunowic, Fra Fee, Carlos Navarro.

V: Why should we watch Hawkeye?

Piotr - Because you can't miss a story that combines a family holiday atmosphere with an explosive action movie, comedy scenes with criminal suspense, which shows us known characters in a new light and presents new ones, all in the first production that was personally signed by Kevin Feige.

V: The last question, I'm also very curious to ask if you know anything more about the culture and the art of Argentina.

V: As my nationality is Argentinian, I can't avoid asking you about being a part of Amazon's Lightyears, directed by Oscar-winning director and executive producer Juan José Campanella. What can you say about working with him?

Piotr - Thanks to Witold Gombrowicz, the Polish writer, Argentina is much closer to Poles than you can imagine. I played the character of Witold Gombrowicz in theater and television. I remember the descriptions of his wandering around the Retiro in Buenos Aires. How nice it was to confront my vision of literature with reality.

Jorge Luis Borges, Cortázar, Argentinian wines, tango, sun (after my visit I know why it is on your flag) ... these are general associations related to Argentina, which I certainly share with many foreigners.

Piotr - While I didnt directly work with Juan Jose Campanella on my episodes, in Argentina, I worked with the great director Philip Martin. He is an amazing man. A great leader of the crew and actors, a supporting and uplifting director. We filmed in a great setting in Jujuy Province. I asked him if he had ever had more beautiful locations. Together, we decided that this is one of the most beautiful places where ever we were able to shoot. And on the top of that adorable llamas everywhere.

Hawkeye is out November 24th on Disney+

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