Gitit Fisher reveals the painful estrangement from her father: "The concept has collapsed"
Creator and actress Gitit Fisher shares the dramatic revelation that led to the rewriting of her new hit series, and explains how psychological therapy completely dismantled the picture of reality she had painted in her imagination.
Behind the scenes of the hit series "Bodeket" (The Checker), broadcast on yes, lies a long creative process and an emotional upheaval experienced by creator and actress Gitit Fisher. The series, which follows a security checker at Ben Gurion Airport and her complex relationship with her father, began to be written over a decade ago, but what started as a text celebrating a close family bond turned over the years into a reflection of a completely different reality.
When she was 28, a graduate of Beit Zvi who worked at the airport and studied screenwriting, Fisher began to draft the first version of the project. In those days, her starting point was that her father was the person closest to her in the world.
"I started writing a series from the starting point that my dad is my best friend, that he is the only one who understands me and that we have a special and amazing connection," she recalls.
However, over the years, and in parallel with psychological therapy, the picture she had painted in her imagination fell apart. "My father and I are estranged. The concept has collapsed, as you like to say in the news. When you are required to talk about facts and not feelings, you discover that there is a gap. In my case, the gap is crazy. I had a character in my head, in practice it was not even close to that," she shares with the N12 magazine.
The recognition of this gap and the return to the script from a new angle led to the rewriting of the entire series, in an attempt to understand the power and weight of the home in which we grew up. "I want people to understand the power they have over their children," explains Fisher, the motive that led her to turn the personal story into a television work. "I want the adult children to understand that the things they call character traits are very much a reaction to the environment they grew up in. We are not arguing about facts, we are arguing about the filters we came with from home."
From this sober look at the past, Fisher chose to translate the hard emotional work into an exposed and precise comedy-drama. The self-analysis of the relationships in her life was not intended to settle scores, but rather to reach reconciliation and touch the viewers.
"Because I have no anger, I have acceptance. The strongest thing is to be together, and for that I wrote this series," she summarizes the journey she went through from the pages of the script to the screen.
