"I’M ACTING A PROBLEM”

Peter Krobath: What sort of woman is Silvija?

Chulpan Khamatova: She’s a completely normal woman.

Is she a good mother?

Chulpan Khamatova: She tries to be a good mother. That’s what she wants to be more than anything else.

What does she want from life?

Chulpan Khamatova: She wants to have a completely normal family. She dreams of a small, perfect world with her son. She’s a whore, and for her that works like anything else under a capitalist system: someone sells, someone else buys. But society refuses to see her profession as normal. Everybody tells her son that she must be a bad mother because she’s a whore. That’s the whole problem – and it’s that problem I’m acting.