Actor Iina Kuustonen’s everyday life runs with work, sports and children. However, one topic makes him serious.
For an hour of ticking the fell up in a closed -end. Then in a few minutes down. A soft powder is buzzing around and counting feels like freedom.
This is how actress Iina Kuustonen, 40, describes her love for her hobby free fall. Kuustonen has fallen on the snowboard since childhood, but in adulthood he found free -down on the board.
– Sometimes as I get up on a steep slope in the painful deep snow and in the frost of 30 degrees, I think it doesn’t make any sense in this hobby. But when I look at the beautiful nature around me, it all makes sense, says Kuustonen.
Inka Kuustonen has been snowboarding since the age of 9. Pete anikari
The Kuustonen has just returned with his family to sacred. There he taught his 5- and 8-year-old children to fall on the board throughout the week. Skiing with children is still on the slopes.
Parents of Kuustonen Mikko and Berit taught Iina and her sister Mink To ski already under school age. At the age of 9, Kuustonen switched skis to the snowboard.
– It’s a big gift that as a child I have already had a relationship with nature and movement. It seems important to me to share it with my own children.
During the interview, Kuustonen’s bag is chopped by itching and lavender color. -I have been passionately weaving since elementary school, says Kuustonen. Pete anikari
Nervous system
Finnish nature is important to Kuustonen. In addition to downhill skiing, Kuustonen enjoys swimming in natural waters throughout the year.
The open -air swimming has created a common thing for Kuustonen’s mother and sisters.
– My mother already taught us the secrets of swimming as a child. You can leave worries in the water, says Kuustonen.
Kuustonen currently enjoys kundalini yoga. It is often called the yoga of consciousness as it expands consciousness and deepens self -awareness. Pete anikari
Kuustonen also enjoys yoga. Yoga is inhalation, raising the capacity of the nervous system, learning self -regulation and presence.
One of the interests for Kuustonen is the human nervous system and its function. Kuustonen has also studied as a yoga teacher.
Yoga -free lessons have been a huge benefit for Kuustonen’s acting work.
– I use breathing as a tool, for example, working with different emotions. Or when I am tense and I’m nervous, with the training of the industry to automatically breathe myself soothingly.
New fairy tale
Kuustonen will star in February at the premiere of Risto Räppääjä and Dual Creature Aunt Peace. In the past, Kuustonen’s sister Minka Kuustonen has been seen in the role.
The reason why Kuustonen jumped to replace his sister is that he was lucky. Minka himself was caught in other descriptions.
-Aunt Peace played a wonderful role. The rappers have a very unique fairy tale world that it was fun to jump into, Kuustonen says.
Iina Kuustonen jumps into the role of Aunt Peace in the new Risto Räppääjä and Dual Flight. Pete anikari
The film sees Lennartina Ylermi Rajamaa. Rajamaa is Kuustonen’s old course buddy from theater school runs. One moment of the descriptions has remained in the mind of Kuustonen.
– We sat on the balcony of peace with Ylerm and drank juice in hot weather in the middle of flowers and colors. It felt grateful to act in the children’s fairy tale with a beloved classmate.
The movie Risto Rapper is musical. The film was directed by musical director Samuel Harjanne.
For the first time, Iina Kuustonen plays siblings with her sister Minka in the upcoming General Training movie. Pete anikari
Always a guy included
Kuustonen will also be seen in March in cinema theaters General exercisein the movie.
For the first time, Kuustonen plays sisters with his sister Minka for the first time.
Last time the sisters acted together 14 years ago Summer friends in the movie where they acted with friends.
– When I play with my sister, it already has great confidence at the starting point. It gives you terribly material and play. We have our own sister stuff that we could use in the movie, says Kuustonen.
Even how sisters sit on the couch in the scene feels natural. According to Kuustonen, the body language of her and her sister is very similar.
– We know each other so well that most of our communication is speechless.
Iina Kuustonen and Minka Kuustonen have a very close sibling relationship. Matti Matikainen
The sibling ratio of the sixths is very intense. There have always been two of them, they wrote together as a high school student and were able to study acting at the same time. Iina is only a year older than her sister.
– Our paths have always gone very closely. Of course we have a little sister sister, but in this movie we consciously turned the roles the other way around. Minka plays big sister, Iina says.
– As a big sister, I often take on the role of the responsibility. I remember when as a child Minka had secretly visited my wardrobe. He thought he was Ninja and left the cabinet untouched. I noticed immediately if my favorite shirt had left my sister again.
Sisterhood has been an important thing for both throughout life.
– There has always been a guy on the trips. It’s a big resource.
According to Kuustonen, the government’s cuts are now in the cultural industry, especially in theaters. Pete anikari
Hard times
Although Kuustonen’s life is now serene, one subject makes Kuustonen become more serious. A subject that Kuustonen lives, loves and breathes.
The cultural sector is in distress in Finland. Petteri Orpo (IOC) The government will cut EUR 17 million in the cultural industry alone this year alone.
– I myself have been lucky and privileged that I have had a job, says Kuustonen.
– But almost all of my friends working in the cultural industry are unemployed. They are wondering what other profession would start studying. Artists are not doing well in the cultural industry at the moment.
– People are really in a really tight cultural field, says Iina Kuustonen. Pete anikari
According to Kuustonen, the government’s cuts are already visible. Actors, photographers, cutters, whole working groups are in distress.
Hard cuts are particularly targeted at theaters.
– Theaters don’t have big money anyway. There is ambitious art there, but all the time only on a smaller budget, says Kuustonen.
The Kuustonen himself is also sensitized. Art is close to the heart.
– It feels very sad. After all, art or culture cannot be distinguished from our life. We all need music, movies, architecture and visual arts and other forms of art, Kuustonen says.
– Art is part of our identity, our Finnishness and how we are in this world. It’s the food of the soul.
Kuustonen reminds us that all the money used for, for example, film or TV productions, will be multiplied. The industry employs a lot of people.
– We artists have left the address to the government. We have organized demonstrations. We have reminded that the cultural sector is economically profitable for Finland. Culture brings tax money. In addition to all this, art is an intrinsic value. It should not have to be justified.
Meditation is an important way for Iina Kuustonen to soothe the nervous system and to ground back for a moment. Pete anikari
Grounding for everyday life
In the midst of the turmoil, Kuustonen’s own everyday life revolves around children’s hobbies, school and home. Kuustonen says that children already force the presence in everyday life.
– Although it is doing public work, that life in Finland is not more special.
Kuustonen knows what the souvenir is. He has always consciously spent only a compulsory time on the phone.
– I don’t like the feeling that comes when browsing social media or is on the screens for hours. I think it immediately affects anxiety and nervous system, Kuustonen ponders.
Kuustonen enjoys meditation. Although the head is full of thoughts, meditation has taught Kuusto to look at things from a new angle.
– It’s somehow comforting and gracious. Even though there are all kinds of things in life, you can still soothe your own nervous system and stop in the middle of everything.