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…isn't it? We talk here like communists, openly. I'd like to switch completely subject. You said, Jela, that you are grateful to Olivia for the translation. Could you explain a bit how the process went and if there are any particular challenges? Well, let…
…it, did the hard work, and I think she did really a great job. How the process went, it's probably a question for Olivia herself. Let me just say that we did some communicating. When she had some troubles or didn't understand certain words, she would…
…of work. with the English translation. So again, thank you for this question because I cannot stress out enough how happy I am that Olivia exists. And I want to add something. You will be mad at me, but I read the novel in the manuscript, and when you…
…you this. I said, my God, but this is better than the original, you know. It's a little bit like you, Olivia, you are... How is it called, the big translator, Norman Camp-Smith, or Kant? And everybody knows that, linguistically, the English translation…
…The lady who plays her in the film, no, sorry, the lady who plays Tony Blair's wife, Carrie, in the film is Olivia Williams. And incidentally, a purely sexist remark. I cannot restrain from tasteless remarks. I never got it. She's, to me, more attractive…
…Okay, but that's another intimate, really Marxist topic. More seriously, I was told that everybody in Poland got the joke that Olivia Williams... looks very much like Ann Applebaum. And this was Polanski's nasty joke. Like, in the same way Ann Applebaum,…