TRIBUNJOGJA.COM, YOGYA - The role of art is not a new world for Vania Thalitha. This 25-year-old Dara has even starred in Film Television (FTV) since high school. The introduction to the world of entertainment occurred in 2008 when she joined the Miss Celebrity event.

The competition then took her to have castings for several films. In 2009, Vania who was in high school finally had the opportunity to experience the art world as having a role in her first FTV entitled 'Cintaku Nyempil di Jogja'. Since she was still attending school at that time, this girl originally from Pati  took  FTV which were only located in Yogyakarta.

Stepping on lectures at Communication Science UPN Veteran Yogyakarta, Vania also had moved to the capital city to explore more roles of art. For nearly two years, she was involved in dozens of FTV titles, participating in the TransTV Sketch then to the widescreen movie 'Bangun Lagi Dong Lupus' in 2012.

She claimed to have a lot of her acting skills while she was involved in Sketches TransTV. The comedy collage required her to try out various roles, from the weird to the extreme. Once she played a role as a maid, grandmother, superhero, even kuntilanak though.

 "This world of acting is a world where I can be anyone. So far, I learned not I pretend to be someone else, but I actually played the role of the person I was playing, trying to feel what the character was feeling, so that the result was more natural, " she said when she was expressing interest in the world of acting.

Experiencing the difficulty of deepening the role, the eldest of the two siblings was involved in the film which was the final task of ISI students. In this film, she had to deepen a character of a lesbian Balinese girl and be banged with matchmaking traditions as well as caste.

For the sake of this role, she was willing to attend a workshop for a month, research and familiarize  the language and life of Balinese people. The art world of the role again challenged Vania when she was involved in the Kemenpora project through the film '6Lawan6'.

The film that tells about the drama of this volleyball team required Vania to be able to play volleyball. Dara who claimed not to love this sport even forging herself every day by practicing volleyball for a week until her hands got flushed.

"The biggest challenge was when I had H-2 filming, my  production team switched me. I initially only played as a child, then it was turned into a core character volleyball player. Because it was quite contrasted from the first character, I learned the new role from the beginning again in a short time, " recalled Dira's actor in this sitcom 'Kos-Kosan Jogja'. 

From the myriad of acting experiences she has ever lived, this 165 cm tall girl still wants to try out the roles of the protagonist that she has rarely played. The role of 'good-good' that she wants is  even more challenging than the characters she had played before. (*)