Actress Piitu Uski has reduced her work and now only accepts exceptionally fascinating offers. He learned a revolutionary lesson from the Hidden Lives series.
Piitu Uski will be seen in the new series in the role of editor-in-chief. Kimmo Korhonen ©FisherKing 2022 / General
Piitu Uski chooses her work very carefully, but this time she couldn’t say no. Actually, he didn’t want to. Miikko Oikkonen and Juuso Syrjä offered the actor a role in the Helsinki syndrome series.
Uski had full credit to the screenwriter Oikkoen and the main director Syrjä.
– No matter what they play, I always go, says Uski, who also acted in Sorjos.
The exciting series revolves around the highly intelligent entrepreneur, Elias Karo (by Peter Franzé) around the story. Karo kidnaps four Helsingin Sanomat journalists. For several years, Karo has been trying to expose the injustices that have been done to his family.
The series created by Oikkonen is inspired by real events from the banking crisis of the 1990s and the corona crisis of the 2020s.
Uski will be seen in the series as the editor-in-chief.
– The role called me. The character has to think really big, even hypothetical things. He also has a hell of a responsibility. That’s what was attractive about the ethics of being a journalist, Uski says.
Although Uski has a long experience working with cameras, he was now faced with something new. The hero actor is used to remembering the laws of continuity and the locations of the cameras. He has learned to be careful with his voice and to give a seam to the cutter.
– Now the cameras revolved around us and followed us. We were asked to act organically. The exceptional shooting technology and image processing really attracted a lot, says Uski.
Uski had wanted to work I am Airola with. Airola plays an investigative journalist in the series.
– We were immediately on the same wavelength. I told Oona on the first day that she was also one of the reasons why I took the gig, Uski says.
Carefully selected jobs
Piitu Uski, Andrei Sandberg and Maija-Liisa Peuhu were part of the Salatut elämät star guard when the series started. Kari Laakso
Uski has a long career as an actor behind him and he became known to the general public from the daily dramas Salatut elämät and Kotikatu. Today, Uski is rarely seen on screen. It is partly his own choice, partly dictated by fate.
– I am in a lucky and unfortunate position in that I have to choose my job. The reason is a nerve injury in my knee, Uski says.
The work must be worth the effort.
– I always tell the dressers that I can’t wear high heels. And if I really want above-the-knee clothes, I’ve had knee surgery many times, Uski describes.
Uski enjoys his everyday life and spends a lot of time with his family. Uski has two daughters. She is also a grandmother. Children are also one of the reasons why camera work has attracted Uski more than theater stages. Evenings are free.
– I made that decision already at the Theater Academy. Secondly, my acting habit is more sensitive, which works better in front of the camera than on the big stage, says Uski.
Life first
Piitu Uski played Laura Kiviranta in the series Salatut elämat. Matti Hietala
TV viewers have not forgotten Piitu Uski – neither Laura Kiviranta of Salatutuen eläm, nor Krisse Karr of Kotikadu.
– Sometimes it’s refreshing if someone runs up to you on the street and doesn’t ask “are you Salkkarit-Laura?”, but “are you Piitu Uski?”, the actress laughs.
When the Salatut elämat series started in January 1999, Uski was involved.
– It was a great school and a career-shaping series when it started. That was the treat and the reason why he started it, says Uski.
There were a lot of scenes and text to learn.
– I learned like crazy, Uski praises.
When Uski is asked the most important lesson, he thinks for a moment and answers.
– You can’t be on your toes and in overdrive all the time. You can’t live that way and humanity suffers. Professor of acting at the Theater Academy Kari Väänänen said it well: “life first, then art”, says Uski.
Uski leans on these words.
– In the final games, for example, my daughter and granddaughter are much more important. When I take him in my arms and read a bedtime story. Maybe he will do the same to his granddaughter someday, says Uski.
Helsinki Syndrome will be published in its entirety in Yle Areena on September 2. and will be seen on Yle TV1 from September 4. See all TV programs and broadcast times in Telku’s TV guide.