Kossuth Award-winning actor and director Károly Eperjes gave an amazing interview to Századvég's YouTube channel, Kontextus. They also talked about art, politics, faith, Viktor Orbán and the Gyurcsány world that punishes him. At the beginning of the conversation, he also quoted from Lőrinc Szabó's confusingly current poem Hazám, kristienen Europa, when he talked about what he thinks about today's Europe.
In her introduction, Éva Andor said that Károly Eperjes also took part in the recent jubilee peace march, and noted that now in the context of the war, the word peace has taken on a completely different meaning. He asked the artist why he thought it important to participate in the march.
"I had to be there." I believe that the most important face of this value system at the moment is the Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. And if he considers it so important for him to express himself there, and the CÖF also considers it important, then I have to be there when I get to it - remarked Eperjes, who said that he would have liked to recite the poem Hazám, Christian Europe there. which has never been more relevant than now, only no one has thought of it. Károly Eperjes noted that he thinks this poem should be broadcast on television at least ten times a day, it has something so important to say.
The actor explained that the poet actually "awakens" Europe, that he is not in the image of God, that he has lost his singular identity, which St. Thomas Aquinas puts it as one thing is certain in existence: me and my creator. This is the number one community, and it is now in danger, he added.
– If we separate God and the self becomes the center – that is nominalism, self-centeredness, and this is rampant now. The poet calls Europe a Pharisee. The Pharisees who know but do not believe. For example, I don't want them to think of me as an intellectual, because in the Bible an intellectual is a Pharisee or a scribe. Those who know, just don't believe. They really want to know
- remarked the actor, who also told that his teacher at the Academy of Drama was Géza Hegedűs, who told them that only those of them who read two books and lock them deep in their hearts, understand them with their minds, will become artists. It "harmonizes" the two things and broadcasts them. One is the Bible, the other Aristotle's Poetics: morals and philosophy! Fides et ratio! – this is harmony, this is culture.
If it falls apart, then the brains make fools of the gullible, or the gullible fool the brains - this is not an artistic route. Aristotle says that action becomes art only when it has a supernatural purpose beyond itself. If something is made for the glory of God and the benefit of people, for the salvation of souls, it is art! True art is always sacred
Károly Eperjes added.
Éva Andor commented that it seems to her that faith in God is an integral part of the actor's life, he openly accepts it, which is why he has been attacked many times.
Yes, it usually hurts, but then you say, hey, I'm on the right path. Lately I get most of the slaps from the right. Because there are people on the right who only say they are on the right. The one on the right chose the right part to avoid us from the bad fate, as we say in the Anthem. But I also know well-intentioned, trying leftists who don't even come in, but they usually tell me that they don't want to see me. For example, even after The Bridgeman, they told me that they didn't want to see me on the screen, and they kept it. I just don't need the scripts right now, but that's okay. It's probably not time yet
- noted Eperjes.
Source: Hungarian Nation
Cover image: Photo: MTI/Balázs Mohai
The entire conversation in Context can be viewed by clicking here:
