Maria Bakalova became a star in a span of 2 years
Maria Bakalova’s meteoric rise to fame is one of the most inspiring stories of recent years. She began her acting career in small independent films in her home country of Bulgaria. Hollywood is not something she ambitioned because it is unrealistic. No Bulgarian born actor had made it big in Hollywood and landed a lead role until she did. It all began with an open online audition for the role of Tutar Sagdiyev, Borat’s daughter.
Maria Bakalova thought it was a scam to have her kidnapped and sold be as a slave. You can’t blame her for thinking it sounded too good to be true. The night after her college prom, she send an online audition. It paid off because she landed the role that launched her career in Hollywood.
It is a hard comedic role because it is impromptu acting. In somes she is scripted while in other scenes she is pranking people while in character. Playing Tutar make her won the Critics’ Choice Awards and she got nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Oscars.
Then she gets gig after gig. She played the role of Pedro Pascal’s love interest in The Bubble, a movie set in the Pandemic. During the filming of the Bubble she found out that she is Nominated for Best Actress.
Maria gets to escape being typecast from playing comedic roles when she gets cast in the ensemble of the horror movie Bodies,Bodies,Bodies.
Now Maria Bakalova is the lead actress in the comedy movie, The Honeymoon.
From this Trailer we can see that she is able to neutralize her accent which means she can now play roles outside of Eastern Europeans. She will be able to play American roles and people will not notice.
Premise
Adam(Pico Alexander) and Sarah(Maria Bakalova) are preparing for their once-in-a-lifetime trip to Venice, where they will spend their honeymoon. But when Adam’s best friend Ed(Asim Chaudhry) shows up unannounced, their picture-perfect lovers’ vacation becomes a complete and total disaster.
Actors and directors who worked with Maria Bakalova have nothing positive words when asked about working her. Maria just joined the MCU as she plays the voice of Cosmo the Spacedog in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Cosmo was originally a boy in the comics but Maria is so good she booked the gig.
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