The actor Erez Driggs, “Rehearsals” star, was interviewed tonight (Saturday) for the first time since the testimonies flooded in an investigation of “Politically Calls”, by Dana Weiss. He recounted that he first left the house, after two weeks in which he chose not to, and said, “This is a dramatic turnaround, from a tragedy to horror,” and recounted the moments after the publication of Politicali’s reading: “It’s dark in the eyes. His name is screenshots. It’s scary, You understand there’s going to be a public response. The spouse, the family, everyone has seen, there is an element of shame here that everyone sees. “
“When the whole story started, the first thing I was told was ‘take your head off, disappear for a year, after that it’s going to be okay.’ I said in that second ‘certainly not’ because it’s an escape. And I have to tell him, “he said in an interview.
Driggs said he had already started a change four years ago and about the treatment he underwent, in which he was told he was addicted. “I realized I was lost. I saw around me my friends with children, I could not hold a relationship. I went to the therapist and within two minutes the issue of addiction came up, I realized it was running me at the level of an emergency room, an emergency.”
“People have what they saw in the paper. It does not have to judge me harshly. I have no problem accepting the responsibility, blame and consequences. I am not a rapist. Whoever put me in the category of physical injury, judged me harshly. I have to take responsibility for the reason they applied “To me, on the gap in expectations. Should I take advantage of my position? No. Here I fell and crashed completely.”
He shared in the rehab process, during which he distanced himself from the cell phone, from social networks, and clarified: “Addiction is a thrill. You need something that will solve your problem at that moment.” He says, “The addiction that occasionally comes to your mind, it has a winning text, it says ‘Now you’re published, you can be with whoever you want. You’ve been waiting for it,’ and then you do not listen to it. I have the ability today to counter that voice. I have A world that protects me. “
Driggs also clarified that according to him, the things were not done against the will of the women with whom he corresponded, but took responsibility for his actions, emphasizing that things remained to his definition ‘in the arena of correspondence’. “In the virtual world you hide behind a keyboard. There’s a person here who avoids thrill, ‘Get what you want the way you want.’ It’s like a slot machine. When you put someone with an obsessive pattern in a place like this, where do we go?”
Weiss asked – “How are you different from Moshe Ivgi Hanan Goldblatt and Eyal Golan?”, And Driggs replied: “Let’s start with the fact that I talk to you. That is, accept everything they say, take responsibility. Everything is mine, I screwed up. I want to think I do not belong. – Let’s sum it up differently. I was a coward behind a keyboard for many years, I have the ability now to be brave“.
According to him, Noa Koller, his partner in writing “rehearsals” was aware of the story, but previously ruled out the possibility that he had committed a criminal act. On the character of the sex-addicted “Ofer,” played by Itai Turgeman, he said: “Why do we love him? Because he wants to mend. We need to think what it did to the people who were at the point I was at, that maybe people would want to mend and apologize. I “It’s not certain that some of everything that has happened in the country feels like an outstretched hand and not like a hammer in the head. I understand why the hammer came. Some of it is Pierre and some of it is not.”
To sum up the interview, Driggs said: “There should be meaning to the correction, Otherwise what? It does not matter if you take responsibility or not. There’s a disease here that goes nowhere. There is a generation of children here who grow up on social networks that have nudity, for them this is the norm. We need to talk about things and not give in. “Weiss turned to him with the question -” Do you know what the warning signs are? “And he replied,” Be attentive to who is in front of you, know that there is a man there and take it into account and try to be sensitive. ” : “I need not only the theater to be okay with me, but the audience to be okay with me. I’m waiting for them to look me in the eye. “