il-Klikka : Final Words from Tezara aka Julia Camilleri

Il-Klikka is now coming to an end…how does that make you feel? Relieved, sad or a
combination of the two?

A combination of
the two! I’m relieved as I get to resume my social life a little bit and get
the chance to enjoy a Sunday lunch with my family but I can’t say I’m not going
to miss my evenings and weekends with the cast and crew. 

We’ve cried, we’ve laughed,
we’ve yelled at one another but I honestly can’t imagine this experience
without every single member of the team on board.

   
  

The show probably took up a lot of your
free time…do you feel that it was all worth it?

Sometimes I didn’t
– there were those one-off times when  I’d look at a shot and say iz-zikk
I missed that bday party to take that shot and it was edited in such a way that
I barely show! Lol. But it was definitely worth it because of the friends I
made – I know it sounds cliche’ and double cliche’ because the show is called
klikka haha but we spent so much time together, you automatically share your
thoughts and problems with these people and they always lifted me up when I
couldn’t even think of carrying my own weight alone.

Your funniest memory?

I would say my funniest memory was this one time when someone stopped me
in Valletta. I work in Valletta and I’m always roaming about during my lunch
break, people sometimes recognise me, or rather recognise Julia and stop
me and comment about the show (which is AMAZINGGGG I LOVE IT!). Anyway, this one
time, this guy stopped me, he was a super fan of the show and he was shouting
“Julia Julia” and I stopped and went to say hi. He started saying how
upset he was and I asked why and he said that he had been going to STREAT for a
couple of months hoping to find the Klikka there hanging out. In season 1, Streat was like the Klikka girl’s Central Perk (tipo like of the one of the
American series ‘Friends’) and this guy honestly thought we used to hang out
there because he honestly thought we were the characters we played. When I told
him my name was Tezara and I worked at The Times he was like 

Another
good memory was, this one time last summer, I went to buy meat for a bbq. The
butcher told me that his daughter was a fan and asked if I could take a photo
with him for her. No problem at all. After taking the pic, he politely showed it
to me and asked if I liked it, it was at that point that I burst out laughing
as I noticed the hanging dead chickens behind me in the photo LOL. I couldn’t stop laughing honestly!! Thennnn, to make things even more awkward, I
asked for a Maltese sausage (it was only after I asked this question I realised
it could have been taken badly). I then asked for the bill and he said
“tghidx mhux ta niccargjak al zalzet malti HIHI”  

Your saddest memory?

I had the honour of
filming with John Grech when he played his very last scene as Matthew
Tabone.  Coincidentally, both of our very first scenes of Klikka were
together at the airport, which is where and how the journey ended for him;
together at the airport. It was a scene  during which I saw him off as he was leaving Malta
to start a new life in the UK; it was both a goodbye on camera and a goodbye to
our characters’ coinciding stories. It was weird at first because I was so used
to be on set with him and joking around with him. We filmed our scene and after it
ended we went to the zebra crossing where we filmed our very first scene in
season 1 and took a few pics and held traffic – as usual 😛 I’m  still
in touch with John and I’m sure we’ll work on a few projects together again
very soon but it was obviously very sad to watch him leave.

    

Your favourite part
about playing Julia?

Everything; I
honestly love how she can cry in one scene and laugh in the following one . As
an actress, it made me face challenges every time I played the part. If she’s
in a bubbly mood, I have to preserve my energy throughout the shots as I’d be
repeating the lines for a couple of hours and playing bubbly after a day of
work is sometimes, the last thing you want to do haahaaha. If she’s in a sad
mood and I have to cry, then I have to try my best to actually cry (hate it when
you see actors crying and there are no tears present) anddddd to not look as
ugly as I do when I’m balling my eyes out (maaa xi kruha!). I love how you never
know what she’s going do next and that she’s a character you can play around
with both in wardrobe and in interpretation. 

Since this is a
fashion blog….will you miss the clothes?

Very much, Oasis
were my main sponsor for this last season. When I first found this out, I was taken
aback as I didn’t think they had clothes which suited Julia’s style but I was
greatly mistaken as I underestimated their stock and Caroline’s eye for
combining certain items to perfectly suit Julia. 

Favourite outfit
worn?

Probably the black
suiteblanco dress I wore in season 1, It had a criss-cross styled back and it sold out
within a week after it appeared on the show. I was gob-smacked – and honoured:
P and highly flattered 😛

Do you think Julia
grew up throughout the show?

I guess so. I mean
she did get married and all and because she wanted to impress her husband she
tried to act as mature as she could. I don’t think she was ever immature
though, maybe a little naive but I think she was aware of many life realities and chose to ignore the ugly parts of life she didn’t want to see. 

Although, I
think we got to see a side of her we hadn’t seen before over the last season.