Interviewing actress Riana Emma Balla


 Riana Emma Balla is 13 years old multi-award winning actress. She’s worked with stars like Jamie Lee Curtis, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Cate Blanchett, John Krasinski, Haley Benett, Ray Stevenson and others. She’s won many awards all over the world and had amazing projects and movies. Riana is also an opera and operetta singer since she was
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1-. How was your childhood?

I am still a child so this question is irrelevant, but to answer it was pretty good. It is still. When I was seven I started the whole acting and singing career. When I was eight I decided to quit going physically school and became homeschooled which helped a lot. I was going to castings a lot in those days and I remember how tired I was every single day, going to school, working in the theatre at that time, and traveling a lot to casting to the capital city. So being homeschooled made my life easier, more practical and my grades were and are still good. Making friends was harder because of the covid, staying home, etc and also because my life goals, dreams, thinking was completly different than other kids’. But it was alright coz I could focus on myself and the obstructions. Now I have amazing friends, lot of dreamy girls like me, two „big brothers” and other fantastic people with interesting characters and mindsets. And of course a supporting family that I’ve always had.

2. - From what age did you decide to be an actress and how did you know you had theskills to go on TV?

The desire to be seen I think is in everyone. We just have different ways of showing it. To be a shadow you need light and I think that describes humanity the most. You can decide which team you wanna be in. Of course, I choose to be a light. I always wanted to make things shine, create the silence but fill it. And I think since the age of 3 everyone could see it inside me. I loved music, sining, dancing. I loved making things bigger than they were, like movements, stories, facial expressions, sounds. I think grabbing the audience’s attention is easy, but holding it is hard and I’ve always had a weird way to manage that. So I guess loving giving something that makes me happy and make others happy made me love acting and singing.

3. - Did your parents support you in the decision you made to be an actress?

Absoulutly. I couldn’t have done it without their help and i’m forever greatful for them.

4. - What was your first appearance on the screens?

My first actual role was in The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness. I played a little girl and that was my first experience in a real movie like that. Real cast, script, etc. It was wonderful obviously. I met a lot amazing people with fanatsic carreers behind them and it really inspired me.

5. - What was the role you liked the most?

Every role is a part of me. Every single character is a part of me and I’m a part of them. So I can’t choose a favourite. But the most enjoyable one was in the Borderlands. I played Young Lilith and even tho not every scene made into the movie I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, Haley Benett, Eli Roth.

6.- What do you think what led you to fame?

I’m not sure. Being me I guess. Putting every piece of my heart into my work and I know a lot people says that, but not giving up. Failure is okay. It’s accepted by my mindset because it’s a part of learning. Also support is important. Support everyone that gets in your way (I’n a positive way of course) and try to accept others support if they offer it.

7-. What types of characters you would like to interpret?

I like complicated rolls, where you can express your emotions with hiding them. When I can really show sides of my characters and make people change their mind about it in every single scene. Acting is fun, but feeling it is hard and if I’m in a movie Imma be in the character also. I like instructions, but also to improvise, I like space but not infinity because who made the character knows what she/he thinks actually, I just present it.

8-. What actresses and actors do you feel comfortable working with?

Everyone. I can work with an unicorn, the most grumpy or happiest person in the world. I just like to set boundaries but I’m extremely friendly with everyone. The cast always a little family for me.

9-. In what other genres of art would you like to participate? (Works of theater, music, among others)

Well, a lot famous actor plays in theater while they are working in Hollywood movies so I’d like to do the same when I’m older. Wanna stay on the ground, if you know what I mean. Connect with people during a performance. Also I’m an operetta singer so I wanna countine doing that also. I like horse riding as well, though I am not a pro I love practicing it and have this special connection with animals. Writing is everything to me, I’m a huge poetry fan. I wrote poems before, but also a script which won awards.

10.- Do you have any anecdotes that have marked you in your life and as a person?

My whole life it is actually. But to mention two of them, I met a lot people who didn’t wanna help me but i met a lot who made me think they do, but they actually needed my help without wanting to ask for it, just simply use me and that really opened my eyes back then. A lady once invited me to her luxury castle because she wanted to work with me, but when we got there it was a crumbling, little house with weed and gas all over and with a broken, old, useless pool. It was like in a horror game, the plaster fell from the walls. Another strory is that I did a casting a few years ago and it was for 3 days in the capital city. Spoiler, I don’t live in the capital city, and I had no place to go. So a kind person offered us to stay on his territory. Me and my mom slept in a cabin in the woods next to the city with the lovely presence of hornets, but at least I could do the casting. It was adventurous for sure.

11.- What has been your greatest achievement?

If I can get emotins out of people, make them think about my work. If I make someone rethink their actions. Just letting someone see the world from another perspective, being the voice of whoever is quite in the corner. Just makes the whole thing worth it. But i am most proud of my own movie. It’s called Rift and it won a lot awards all over the world in five continents.

12.- What projects will you make next and which ones do you have in mind?

I have a lot ideas in my mind, I did my own movie when I was 10 and I’m planning to make another. I also have other films coming up, I’ll be singing opera in of them.

13.- Would you like to make a movie in Spain?

I would love to. I was shooting in France before, and I’m interested in a lot of cultures but I’ve never been in Spain so I’d like to go there and make a movie someday.

14.- you like spanish cinema?

Yes. It’s hard for me to make difference in movies culture and country wise but not impossible if I pay attention to the details, the vibe, type of directing, etc. My favourite spanish movie is La lengua de las mariposas, but I also like Emilia Pérez and Culpa Mía.

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