The Kossuth and Jászai Mari award-winning actor Ildikó Piros rarely gives interviews, whose professional but also personal life is exemplary, since she and her husband have been together for 50 years.
In an interview with Kossuth Rádió Nagyok, she talked about her professional career, her current evening and her relationship with her husband. The full conversation can be heard on May 2 from 19:30.
The Kossuth and Jászai Mari prize-winning actress, worthy artist, hereditary member of the Society of the Immortals seems to have been chosen in a certain sense in life, and quickly conquered the audience. He joined Zoltán Várkonyi's class at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and as he put it: he flew beautifully along this course, which also comes with the responsibility that "you accumulate what you receive with love, and you have to give it back. Now I'm going around the country with this," the actor referred to his performance evening.
On Kossuth Rádió's program, he admitted to his interlocutor, Dénes Gulyás, the Hungarian opera singer who won the Kossuth Prize and the Ferenc Liszt Prize, that he is a worthy and excellent artist: in his youth, he did not like it when critics used the epithet "beautiful Red" on him, he believed that it was more than that, however, he no longer runs away from it.
She played one of her best-known roles in the film Abigél, released 46 years ago, playing sister Zsuzsanna. Currently, the captivatingly beautiful and richly composed theater performance entitled Abigél titkai - Piros Ildikó Szabó Magda's evening is almost at its hundredth performance.
"This film has been running for 46 years and now we watch it with my husband, Péter Huszti, when it is shown on the Danube around Christmas. There was a period in our lives when we were constantly working and then we couldn't see him."
Magda Szabó would have been 100 years old in 2017, and that's when the actor conceived the idea of commemorating the world-famous writer at a special evening of performances. Her husband, Péter Huszti, also helped in the construction of the production.
"We're still there after 50 years of marriage, where we don't leave home without stopping for a moment and looking at each other to see if they're okay."
Ildiko Piros was accompanied to the interview by Péter Huszti, who celebrated his 80th birthday on April 4th, with whom you can hear a conversation on the May 3rd program of Nagyok.
Featured image: MTI/Zsolt Zih
