00:00Later this month, a wonderful documentary called Tova
00:03is coming out by filmmaker David Serrero
00:07and it will be released.
00:09We will announce how to find that.
00:11So finally, this wonderful documentary.
00:13It's called Tova.
00:16And what are your hopes for it?
00:18And we're going to play a clip, but before we do,
00:20just how did that come to be?
00:23I get a call from this charming French guy.
00:26Tova, I want to make a documentary review.
00:30I think what you've done with your life
00:32and with your work is,
00:35so I said, are you talking to me?
00:43You want to make a documentary about me?
00:46I said, okay.
00:48Okay, I'm fine with that.
00:51I'm in my 70s.
00:53I'm good.
00:55And this wonderful man
00:57who did a piece on Eli Tahari
01:00and other well-known international figures,
01:06has done a documentary on my life,
01:09my values, my roles.
01:12And he interviewed people,
01:14and the people who participated
01:17are Dustin Hoffman, Kristen Bell,
01:20Adam Brody, Katie Couric,
01:21I mean, Oscar Isaac,
01:25what he does when he talks to me.
01:27It's incredible.
01:28He calls me Ima.
01:29Oscar Isaac, Stephen Schwartz.
01:32I mean, come on.
01:33Right, the wicked composer.
01:34All right, wicked and...
01:36It's amazing.
01:37Daryl Roth.
01:38Daryl Roth, Sharon Bialy,
01:40who cast me in The Walking Dead,
01:42where she said,
01:43Tova felt she was auditioning?
01:45We might as well go home.
01:46Yeah.
01:46I'll never forget that sentence
01:48as long as I live.
01:49It's fantastic.
01:50Who are you?
01:53Tova.
01:55Tova, Tova fell to shoe.
01:57A real firecracker.
01:58I certainly am an actress.
01:59She's a better Jewish mother
02:00than I am a Jewish son, I think.
02:02Tova made such an impression
02:04in the Broadway community.
02:05She's an actor in every sense of the word.
02:08She's a force.
02:09Versatility.
02:10How can I say no to Tova?
02:11She's the greatest Jewish actress.
02:14Dives in to whatever she's doing.
02:16She's on the biggest show
02:17on Netflix right now.
02:19Okay, babe.
02:20You have the right hand.
02:22Let's see if I can pull this one off.
02:24She comes in and wants to talk about the scene,
02:26but not too much,
02:27but just wants to make sure she knows it.
02:29The roles she chooses to play
02:31need a point of view.
02:32They just feel like extensions of Tova.
02:34That's being an actor.
02:35She has more energy level
02:37and is tougher than just about any 20-year-old I know.
02:39The actor wants to know everything about a character
02:42so the character can know nothing.
02:44The royalty is extremely personable.
02:46Epitome of the Jewish mother.
02:48She always says there's no understudy for her mother
02:50and it's true.
02:53All about specificity,
02:55which is why Tova was so great.
02:57Tova came to my mind immediately.
02:59An actor.
03:00He's an artist.
03:00And responded immediately.
03:02That's a prosciutto.
03:03We cast Tova in The Walking Dead.
03:07That's my partner in crime.
03:08Broadway force.
03:09America's foremost tragedian.
03:12When she was Rachel's mother
03:13and I played the rabbi.
03:14Because the camera can see right through bullshit.
03:17I'm still working.
03:18Tova Belch is auditioning.
03:20We might as well just go home.
03:22She always performs without a net,
03:24if you know what I mean.
03:25Gotta give life your best shot.
03:27I don't even know what that means.
03:29To date boys.
03:30It's good.
03:31Very funny.
03:32Talent and turning into a career.
03:34Acting is a lot cheaper than therapy.
03:36I had the good fortune
03:37to climb Mount Kilimanjaro with her.
03:39So far nobody's caught us.
03:40There are certain artists in the world
03:42who just go by one name.
03:43You actually have to touch your nose.
03:45What are you doing down there?
03:48I'm glad you're doing this for her.
03:49Call your movie Tova.
03:51Give me a break.
03:53I'm in my 70s.
03:54So he did this documentary.
03:58He's a fabulous editor.
04:00He even met me in Paris.
04:01We were in Paris.
04:02He got himself to Paris.
04:04And it is making two premieres.
04:07One in Boca Raton on January 26th
04:10in the sold-out Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival.
04:13And then to my great honor,
04:15I am so honored,
04:17the Stryker Center at Temple Emmanuel.
04:19Gotti Levy and Ari Weitz,
04:21God bless you.
04:22We will be there February 25th.
04:26Everybody go.
04:27Everybody go.
04:28And there's a Q&A with Jessica Shaw afterwards.
04:31Oh, good.
04:32And the last time I saw her,
04:33she was interviewing Cynthia Erivo
04:35and Stephen Schwartz for Wicked Part 2.
04:39I mean, come on.
04:40No, it's going to be a great event.
04:41And there's a website, yes,
04:44for the, there must be.
04:45Yes, it is.
04:45And we'll put that up.
04:46It's strikercentered.org slash Tova.
04:49Something like that.
04:50I'm sure that Tova Film has a website.
04:52Don't you think?
04:53He's probably got one.
04:54We'll check on that.
04:54I would hope so.
04:55But if you just go to Stryker Center,
04:57you can't miss it.
04:58And also just Google David Serrero,
05:03S-C-R-E-R-O.
05:05And he's marvelous.
05:07And I'm very, I'm very excited.
05:11And it's a, it's, it's a film that I hope will be
05:15not only a legacy for my children and grandchildren.
05:18After I leave my body when I'm 104,
05:21my mother lived over 103.
05:23I plan to outlast her.
05:25And I hope my children do for me what I tried to do
05:28for my mom or what I did.
05:30It's just, it's a lesson in not giving up
05:35and in trying to live your life at the standard
05:40that you hope for yourself as a moral, as a mensch,
05:44as a fully developed human being.
05:46Well, so I've tried to do.
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