We recently connected with Ewa Sobiczewska and have shared our conversation below.

Ewa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Can you talk to us about how you learned to do what you do?

I was very fortunate to study at American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, where I’ve met some of my absolute favourite people and closest friends, who are now my family here. Before that I had an acting coach and went to an acting program in Warsaw. All of these taught me the value and importance of vulnerability and taking creative risks, which I think are some of the most essential skills an actor, or any creative, should have.
I also learned a lot by watching other people act, whether that was on screen, on stage or in my acting classes. Seeing others make bold choices and be authentic, especially when it got messy, gave me the push to do the same despite my fears of failure.
My biggest obstacle has always been my perfectionism and difficulty with surrendering control. I’ve always been unyielding when it comes to my routines and I tend to be very strict with myself, so I think a huge part of my growth was learning to be flexible and freeing myself from my own set of rules. Even if it meant getting messy, disorganized and imperfect.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Ewa, I’m an actress. I was born and raised in Poland and I first moved to LA around 3 years ago when I got accepted into an acting school here. During the past 3 years I’ve been living between Poland and LA, combining work back home and studying in the US. Ever since I graduated I’ve been making my transition into working as an actor. I was fortunate to work with many amazing and talented people on different plays, short film, student projects and feature films. I also got to hop on a webseries Scarlett created by my best friend, Rhiana Eastland, where I’m a co-writer, producer and actor.
I’ve always been pulled towards creating – I loved dancing, painting and writing – but I didn’t consider acting as a career until I was 14. That’s when I started watching more TV shows and quickly found out this is what I want to be doing in life. I also felt this pull towards acting in English – there were some things I just couldn’t express using my native language.
What’s important for me in my work is being true to my characters. I always aim to get to know them, their environment, who they surround themselves with, their life, who they are and what made them that way. I love research and finding out about them from the story and the author’s words but I also love exploring the character through the lens of my own life and experience.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

I would say the most rewarding thing for me is getting to tell a story, especially one that is personally important to me, and being a part of something meaningful. If something I’m a part of has an impact on someone I consider it a personal success.
I love the fact that, through discovering my characters I get to discover more of myself. Sometimes I find a character that I see as so much different from me but along the way I discover how much of me is in them. In that way acting is very freeing to me. I get to explore all those different facets of myself in a safe way.
Another important thing for me is getting to create and expand my community. I love collaborating with different people and forging meaningful relationships. As actors, we are nothing without our communities.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I think the biggest lesson I had to unlearn was that the more complex something is the better.
Both in my professional and in my personal life I’ve always had an issue with making everything more complicated than it had to be. In my acting I would create objectives and actions for my characters that were unnecessarily elaborate and kept my attention away from the present moment.
I finally realized that often the simplest solution is the best one. The truth itself is simple, it’s the nuances of it that bring in the complexities.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewa_sobiczewska/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewa.sobiczewska.7
• Other: https://www.instagram.com/scarlettnewebseries/

Image Credits

Adam Chambers photography, Tina Vonn photography