Amica  2000

By Cristina Piccino

Sent to BEP by Arnaud  tweeky@ONLINE.FR


"Björk, Actress For A Day"


C. P. >In short who is Björk?

Björk >I don't think I have understood it yet, I'm still following my
instinct. I began when I was 5, and since then my little antennas always
try to connect and give me the total image of myself.
But I know that if you close your eyes and you believe in your
intuitions, then the power is with you.

C. P. >You said that you won't leave music any more for other forms of
art. What did music mean for you? Is it vital as it is for Selma in
DITD?

Björk >Music has been for me a liberation from the world I grew up in.
People find it inusual a bit like me, maybe because I can't give a
definite, one-way only image. But I like this. Sometimes I have big
difficulties to communicate with words, even to speak. I say to myself
that I'd understand better the others if they sang. Maybe that's why
being an actress was so difficult, I was everyday in the set by hundreds
of people, and so the day after and the day after again.
A true nightmare. When I record my albums I work with few people that I
know since a lot of time and with wich there's confidence. That's why I
didn't want to accept Lars'proposal.
But he said that he wouldn't make the film without me. Today I know for
sure that actress is not my metier.

C. P. >What does Björk like, which are her intimate desires?

Björk >I like being at home with Sindri. It's strange, but when you have
a child even the most stupid things become very important. I like
calling him everyday, watching TV with him, being on the sofa and
chatting. Sindri is one of the most interesting guys I ever met. He
never gives the impression to feel like an appendix of me.

C. P; >This means that you'd prefer to have a more ordinary life?

Björk >No, I'm lucky, when I was a girl I was rougher, maybe because
I've been the mother of myself for a long time. But today I think that
it has been good. A great Icelandic writer says that few things are as
good for a child as to lose his father and maybe even his mother. Maybe
it's a bit crude, but it gives well the idea of the Icelandic spirit.

C. P. >How much does love count for Björk?

Björk >I was born to love, it's my obsession. I like being stupid,
naïve, ignorant, weak, strong, wild.
I like being brilliant, intelligent, and I like being all these things
together and many others, learning as much as possible as I go forward.
When you are a girl you meet someone and you want to marry him and you
think that it'll be forever. Then you meet another one, and you find
other things and you learn to know yourself.

C. P. >Let's come back to cinema, to DITD. In spite of the Palme d'Or
won't you really play in a film anymore?

Björk >Yes, it's true. I have my music's universe, its emotions, its
language where now I want to plunge. I have to think about new albums,
and I don't want to neglect anymore my true passion for something else.
To act in the clips is different, they're an extension of music. Acting
is not for me. When we played and I stopped singing I felt like a fish
out of water.