SFG Ep 1 Wilma Elles

Wilma Ellis, a German actress, is interviewed in Los Angeles. She talks about her career and current projects. The interview also discusses the concept of goodness, spirituality, and the correlation between science and spirituality. The documentary "Searching for Goodness" is mentioned, along with the importance of spreading goodness in our work and art. The conversation then shifts to climate change and the need for political change to address environmental issues. Wilma emphasizes the importance of acknowledging the problem and working together to find solutions. Searching for goodness. Well, until we have the money to go to Antarctica, we're starting right here in L.A. Hello from Los Angeles. Today I have my good friend Wilma Ellis. I've known her for 9 years. She's a German actress. I know her from the famous show, I've been with her a long time ago. We've been friends. She was in one of my short films, Solarend. Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, in the sky, you'll get by. If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you. And we met again in Los Angeles. She's here with her kids and I'm actually interviewing her and her little baby in her belly right now. Very exciting. So Wilma, I know a lot of people know you already in Turkey and around the world, but can you please introduce yourself? Yes, thank you so much Betsy. I'm very excited to be in Searching for Goodness and I think it's a really good subject. Yeah, my name is Wilma Ellis. I'm from Germany, but 13 years ago I went to Istanbul for the TV series Early Beginning Chase Romantic and it was the record-breaking TV series of all time. And it was in 70 countries, so now they are all over the world. There are people who watch it who like it, thanks God. And then I continued with other series and movies and I was here in this Oscar-eligible movie Silver Carnation, which we shot in Los Angeles, so I come here quite often. And it's so good that we always stay in touch and you are such a creative woman. I always love to support and be on your side when you have great ideas. Thank you so much. And you looked gorgeous at Canfield Festival this year. What is your lately project if you want to mention any of your projects in the words that are coming up? Yes, so the Canfield Festival, I go there every year. I love it to be with all the film crews all over the world. And at the moment my new series is a streaming one. It's a concurrent of Netflix from Turkey. The platform's name is Tavi. And there I'm the wife of the sultan, Deniz Hatun, in the series. And there's also the great apple, it's also in English. You can watch it in English on TaviEnglish.com. Yeah, and there are some other film projects coming up, so I'm excited. Very good. And our documentary is called Searching for Goodness. And we are starting slowly before we manage to go to Antarctica, which is going to be the first continent I'd like to explore for a feature film. Then I want to go to other continents with the documentary series. So there's going to be a little bit of traveling involved. But at this stage, I just started asking from the point of view of an actress, artist, a scientist. My name's Nick Amoroso, and I'm a research scientist. A spiritual person. My father taught me spiritualism from a very young age and taught me how to meditate. And at that time, he was more into transcendental meditation. And to you, what does goodness mean? What is goodness to you? And how can we express goodness? So goodness, I think, is a good intention. So you can have somebody bring the bag with a bad intention. This is not goodness, I think. So goodness comes from the heart. So goodness is more like a frequency. It's like the white wife. And I work with frequencies all the time. I use them to sleep, to relax, to bring myself in the right mood. And as soon as I have the right vibe, the right mood, the right frequency, good things happen. It always is like this. And I think there are rules in the universe, also about spirituality. When you use them, then good things happen. And you always should desire good for the other person. You should never think bad about a person. You should always be understanding. And you should always think about the things you have. Because when you are thankful, then good things, more good things happen to you. And you should always envision good things. Then it happens, it realizes itself. But if you want to take vengeance, if you don't forgive other people, if you do all of this, then your life will be miserable. And you harm yourself more than the other person. So goodness is also whatever you do to another person, it happens to you. Maybe not from this person, but it happens to you on some other way. Even if you just stroke a cat, some good things happen to you. And you should never forget the 10% rule. Always try to give 10% of what you have. Share your food, share your income, share your happiness, your time. So that's goodness for me. Very good. And how do we go about spreading goodness to our work and our art? How do you spread goodness? And how do you think we can spread goodness to the city manager? I think it's a wonderful subject. You know, always, in the word, bad things happen. And now we came out of the pandemic, and I think it's a really good subject what to choose for your documentary. Thinking about it and being clear about yourself. We want to spread goodness, we want goodness. We don't want war, loneliness, fear. We want to help other people. I think that's very, very good that you remind the people that we are all one big family in the end. Very well said. And you mentioned the frequencies. I'm also very interested in finding the coexistence between spirituality and science. And you mentioned pandemic times. I remember I was really into reading about new thought movements, and how people's energies and thoughts can be healing or protecting from diseases or your health. So how do you see a correlation between science and spirituality? I think, actually, science and spirituality is one. So there are special rules for spirituality to reach your dreams, your goals. And I think, I'm a religious person, so I think that also the rules, like how to reach your goals, how to reach your dreams, and how to use spirituality. You can be spiritual, but when you use spirituality to reach your goals, then that's science. It's described in the Torah, in the Bible, in the Koran. They are the rules. And also in other books. I don't know at the moment, I'm sure. But I think these holy books, they have the rules. Like you should, you know, when you share, you get more. When you believe, then it happens. Like all the rules are inside, actually. And so we should, we can use those rules. And if you, for example, if you're very angry with somebody, then things break. You get sick when you feel lonely. You always have to, like the most important is your soul. Because for the health of the soul, the body can go sick. So always make sure that your soul is healthy, and you will never be sick, hopefully. Right. So it's like, like whatever is, for example, this is the rule, like if I let this, then it will fall down. And the same is with the rules, the spirituality rules, which is like when you wish back to somebody, then it happens to you. So that's also a rule, I think. Beautiful. I mean, everything you just said is perfect. And you mentioned something very important, because when I was first starting the chemistry, I had this called oneness. And from all different world religions, it was showing things how they have in common, like love thy neighbor, love one another. But a lot of things, golden rule, do unto others as you'd like them to be. What goes around comes around. So this was very important. I was actually starting this documentary called Searching for God. And because of the misconception, like people thought I'm making a movie about Jesus, they thought this was something state-based. I'm like, no, this is like large. I want to include everybody and everything. I wanted it to be a universal thing, so then I changed it to goodness. Because goodness can be found in science, in different religions, in different things. Climate change and global warming, we keep hearing, which I'm also going to be interviewing some activists about that. Actually, today is a Friday. I usually work Fridays on Searching for Goodness. And there's this young activist, Greta Thunberg's group. You know that little girl, How Dare You? So she has an organization called For Future They Go, and they do activism for climate change. They go to town and from the parliament and call the governments and corporations for action, doing the right thing for the environment. So anyhow, what's your thoughts on if you have a mom with her two beautiful kids and you have a new one coming up, so for the world we're going to leave it to our children and your children's children. What do you think we should do for our environment and climate change, global warming? What's your words on that? Yeah. Unfortunately, we are all in this together and it's very frightening how fast this change was. Like when we think about the motor was invented in I think 1890 or 1900. So it's just 140 years ago this process started. And before that, like thousands and thousands of years, we lived one with nature. Now, with the motor change, just in 140 years we destroyed so much. And it's going faster and faster. All the people now have like washing machines, televisions, multiple phones, too many things. And I see everywhere, I see this forage. The people are just buying too many goods. And the population is growing and more cars are going on the street every day. So this process will be even quicker. And I think there needs to be a very big political change that we can all react to this change. And this was the hottest summer since 140 years. So the climate change is here right now and it's happening. So it's very bad that every third person died of cancer. We destroy all the environment unfortunately. So we have to acknowledge that. It's our fault. And only if we can do it all together then we can manage it. And I always tell my kids and I know it's going to happen. You can't deny it anymore. So it's better for us to be prepared and not to cry about it. I'm not here to just say, oh, it's so bad, it's so bad. We have to adapt to this new situation. And for example I was looking Canada is a great place. Maybe it will be the best place to live in like 20 years. Because it's a little population, a lot of trees and a lot of nature. So we will all I think look for different places to live. So we have to change all of our things we are used to. I tell my kids, everything you see here right now it has to change. Isn't that crazy? We have to change everything and this is also a chance for the new generation because now we have the rich and the poor people like the car sellers are the rich people but this will change because the new generation will create new inventions, how to move around without destroying nature how to use electricity without destroying nature like clothing everything is now about longevity and about being stable in the nature this has to change it's not we will all die very soon it's just how it is so we better change fast it's like Darwin who will be stronger will survive and how Descartes there is only one thing that's not going to change constant change everything will change so let's not just cry about it let's not just be mad with each other let's do it all together like the political change and then the change in consummation and population living together, community right so what's your thoughts on AI and what do you want to say on that I think now we are right in the center of the discussion of artificial intelligence let's strike and I think this protest started also with the pandemic when we got used to seeing each other more on screen than seeing each other drinking something together, touching smelling something having the full experience so AI is just continuation of screen time and now we got used to social media we are interacting now with just like a phone and it's not the real person anymore still we got used to it and we use it everyday more on the track going there and I think it's almost like not you can't turn the time back the start was I think when we had the musicians when they just gave concerts and then the ALT came on the market I think that's when the musicians maybe protested and said hey, now nobody is coming to my concert again everyone is just listening for the ALT paying one time and listen it thousand times this is not fair but it turned out that this was the way now you really even not pay for any music anymore we all watch it on Youtube for example so how do the singers survive? that's a big question and also we, actors now and directors, we have to be creative thinking about new ways how can we survive and we have to change ourselves myself I developed already some strategies like thinking about Canada going to Canada with the environment for example I bought a house and I was checking how big is it above sea level because when the water comes and it's all soon it can be 10 years, 20 years and this is the same now we need to develop strategies looking into other branches what can I do because I think the golden ages of Hollywood because Hollywood is like the motor of America like America is so strong because all the products and the lifestyle of America were shown to the world and now Hollywood is tough super dangerous because the world is not I don't know I'm afraid that the world order but it is like it is we will see what happens but I think also like America is strong they will develop new ways but Hollywood was the motor and now it's stopping for months and it will go on for some while some people say so this is we can agree very soon because it's not things will change much faster I mean AI is like really improved I remember last movie set I worked on both of the assistant directors were told me they were like getting help writing stuff sending up emails to Chad Chesky I heard people writing stories so I even heard this writer girl she published a book she ran this with hoping that they might get an AI director to direct it like what the heck is going on so yeah I don't know just like everything else we have to co-exist with AI because if we try to compete with AI, I think AI is going to be too much and I always think of Space Odyssey have you seen Space Odyssey? How? Open the doors, how? Like the AI stops listening to you like that point can come that can be hard I'm sure they will criticize human being as in the other picture why should we have a sweating human being you need to powder every 5 minutes and you can have a perfectly made AI actors without having to to eat to sleep in a 5 star hotel without any business class it's much cheaper much cheaper even background actors apparently they took a guy can the body now they can't use it anywhere like Lord of the Rings outdated the soldiers so now imagine that all the background they don't have to feed them dress them and everything a lot of background actors are low on money and the economy can rise so it produces much more effective to use AI but how can we change it back I mean the people they all look on social media and now photo touch photos have the same value as normal photos like nobody like even there are some profiles who are fake and the people like not the people the AI have a lot of followers so I don't know what to say on Instagram is this a person or is this AI I really have a few accounts I'm wondering what's going on but I think the answer is going to be universal income the goal of this documentary which I started is searching for goodness in Antarctica I want to go to Antarctica one reason is a lot of different countries like 70, 80 countries people go there to scientific research for the good of the earth and I want to travel the world continent by continent and I want to start there if I can find a little different countries in one place plus it's a very critical place for global warming climate change and it's like a safe haven another thing that interests me about Antarctica there is no government there yeah there is no real like there hasn't been a war in the history of Antarctica there has been only one murder I've heard of it is kind of like a cold haven over there like a utopia so I really want to go explore haven't been there yet I need to get ponds together to be able to get on an expedition ship and go all the way get the crew get the equipment the right kind of wardrobe because it's going to be freezing over there that's the goal of this documentary what have you heard what are your thoughts about Antarctica when we get there I'll let you know you might want to come along of course I think it's a great vision you have and I'm sure you're going to find a way to realize this it's an important project you have here and so Antarctica I want to go so yeah global warming it's happening right now and again we have to take action not only cry about it yeah we have to be very fast and it's up to people like you or like Greta Thunberg or like what other activists there are too and all of us to follow you and to be part of your project and also for me like I like to it's an important project so to bring the change in a faster way yeah so glaciers are melting there's like polar bears on the top of one little glacier and it's mouth is going to go into water all the animals and it's butterflies it's affecting the rest of the world we see more floods we see more fires, right? yeah for example there will be more floods, more fires more earthquakes and you have to be prepared and buy a house according to that or find a way like I personally I'm always doing projects or supporting projects against cancer this is my main subject but it's all one subject actually because all these products they are very bad for our health and very bad for the universe for the earth inside the universe so I don't know I'm sure they're doing a lot of research over there about this subject too thank you last question I also would like to thank all the secret heroes behind the camera they're also making a difference and tying their hands behind thank you so much thank you and last question for some reason when I was interviewing people birds came into picture a lot singing about and they imagined how those things are making seagull sounds in different theaters I decided to as an author which is my favorite director ever and also I want to edit a section for birds what are your thoughts on birds? what do you think of birds? yeah so little pigeons in Turkey when my mother died of cancer this very day I saw a white feather next to her bed and then I found another black feather next to her bed and and then after she died there was like a bird and I heard that the birds they collect like kind of a toll and there was a lot of other things of course I can't describe it right now but the one point was that the bird I looked at the bird and I knew I mean of course as a religious person other processes were going on but one was that the bird took it and when I found the feathers I was sure that there were some angels like birds are kind of angels and and then also a few days later I was so devastated and I asked please God give me a sign can I still be in contact with my mother and then I found this very big feather and there was no bird around you know I just looked down and there was this feather so I think it had something to do you know I believe in it so birds are very special and that's a beautiful story I heard about feathers and angels okay well thank you so very much I really do appreciate you your beauty and your wisdom you're not only beautiful but talented and very smart and I'm very happy to have you with my interview I appreciate it no thank you so much and I'm here looking a little bit different than normal thank you so much that's another great project of yours and I wish you all the blood and my blessing for your motherhood as well we can contribute to grow this better place and thanks again to New Face of LA for filming my interview and that's the end and this is Chester with Wilma Ellis farewell take care