Discover the interview with Brett Olah, performer and Jiří Horenský, director for the music video "ADONXS - OVERTHINKER". They are nominated in the "Best performer" category and won second place!
Check the full music video "ADONXS - OVERTHINKER":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnCsfoZN9q0
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Jiří Horenský: @real_plastonaut
Brett Olah: @brettolah
@reset.production & @alternaut_collective
Credits :
Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin
Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.
Check the full music video "ADONXS - OVERTHINKER":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnCsfoZN9q0
Follow them:
Instagram:
Jiří Horenský: @real_plastonaut
Brett Olah: @brettolah
@reset.production & @alternaut_collective
Credits :
Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin
Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.
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00:00Cool, can you introduce yourselves, what's your name, where are you from?
00:21Yeah, hi, my name is Brett, I'm from Slovakia.
00:24My name is Yuti, which is literally unpronounceable anywhere else than in Czech Republic, so you
00:29can call me Jay, I would appreciate it.
00:31I'm from Czech Republic and we came here with Overthinker music video.
00:37Right, and you're nominated for Best Performer for the video, you're one of the performers
00:40in the video, so I think maybe a question for the director, how do you choose the performers
00:46for the video?
00:47Well, first of all we had a casting director, Jacob Rock, shout out to them, who came up
00:53with this brilliant motherfucker, bleep that out later.
00:59With the music videos, especially Czech Republic and Slovakia, you don't have these big budgets,
01:05a lot of time or anything to do this huge casting process or whatever, so we were glad
01:10to have this person on board, and he came up with basically this guy right there, there's
01:16a couple more guys, but it clicked from the very first moment, but we still wanted to
01:21make sure, so we did a little callback, a little casting, just to not make him too cocky
01:26to pick him right away, but yeah, so we did like a little test shoot, you know, just on
01:33a DSLR to make sure that the chemistry is there mostly, because that was what we were
01:37going for, we were looking at the charisma, the character, not just the actor, we wanted
01:43somebody who embodies the character that you see in the music video.
01:57Can you maybe speak on the topics of the video, what is the video about?
02:01So the topics, the first time I heard about the whole theme of the video, I was really
02:09glad to be a part and to work with such great people, because the whole video is actually
02:18about something that I'm fighting with my whole life, and it's about actually Adonis
02:23Complex, which is like, you know, us men, we never see each other enough in the mirror,
02:29we always want to see something more, we always want to see bigger muscles, prettier face,
02:34prettier body, and sometimes it can be just too much on us, you know, too much on our
02:40mind and it can just drive us crazy, really.
02:42So basically the whole video is just, I mean, just watch it, you'll get it, I think, you'll
02:48get it.
02:50Sorry, what was your nickname again?
02:53Jay, Jay is nice.
02:54Okay, nice.
02:55You also worked on Promises to My Vagina, you did, you were the director on that.
02:59Was there anything you learned from that, you brought into this video, they're both
03:02about like mental health connected to physicality?
03:06Well first of all, wow, you did your research, I'm blown away, this is crazy, thank you.
03:12Yeah, like it's a little different story because it's a commercial, so of course like it's
03:17a, I had to win the tender to shoot a commercial, but yeah, like this is something that's very,
03:25like overall this is a topic that's very important to me and I think it's like very generally
03:31understandable and very like generally important to many people, it doesn't matter if it's
03:37vagina or muscles or whatever, like we have this, it's about self-image and in the end
03:43it's about what society implies on us, you know, like and it's just crushing to realize
03:47that all these mostly young people, but you carry it on, you know, until a later age that
03:55you just kind of are pushed into the situation where you can develop some sort of like mental
04:04issues based on basically who you are, on something that you can't, you don't control
04:09and it's basically like, you know, it's great that we have all this like a body positivity
04:13motion and everything, but still like the everyday reality is something like omnipresent
04:18and it's like eerie everywhere, like universal in every culture, every, you know, every nationality
04:27or whatever, that you can experience something so crushing and something so brutal based
04:32on something so stupidly constructed by society and, you know, ignited like hundreds of years
04:40ago and we still pay for that, you know, with our mental health, so there was a long answer
04:46for your brief question, but I think it's important topic and each time I get the chance
04:52to elaborate on that, I'll be happy and I'll stick with it, because I think we need to
04:57remind ourselves that it's a bullshit and we need to sort of work on it and fight it.
05:03Yeah, awesome, thank you very much for the interview.