Saturday, May 10, 2008
Dewi Sandra – The Shine of Her Eyes and Voice
Eyes Shine and Voice
I was late to meet Dewi Sandra and my mind was so nervous, but it all disappeared in a flash when I was greeted with friendly smile and warm staring eyes of this woman.
Before I met with Dewi, I searched for information about her. Then I found her official website. When I told her about this, she was very happy, “That’s good. People are using my website,” she said enthusiastically. www.dewi-sandra.com had been her desire to come true for long time and finally it was launched the same time with the launching of her new album Star. “So the concept was to synchronize everything and for friends who want to know or communicate with me or giving me input, so it’s basically as a place for chitchat and telling what inside their hearts,” explained Dewi who usually writes about her daily activities in this official website.
Dewi explained, “There are times when I really want to tell my feeling but of course I have to be careful and make it more global because I don’t want people have weird thought about my story. I want to share in a general ways. I have my downs, dull times, sad or upset, I search for solution myself and the solution might useful not just for me but also for everyone else in the same situation. It means the world to me reading the comments or little messages for me. I’m in a good communication with several people who write comments in my website.”
Dewi also has special diary since she started her writing hobby two years ago. She’s already having 3 diaries in total. “I’m wasting a lot of paper, but for global warming, I’m trying to be as preventive as I can be,” she laughed.
Dewi is a fan of Monty Tiwa. Dewi happened to say to her close friend that she wanted to try acting world that she thinks cool and full of curiosity. Several film offers have accosted her but she thought it iffy and refused them. Until one day Monty Tiwa wanted to meet her and ask for playing in a film. “I went to casting place with full make up, I’m so sure, because I’d just have a show before and then they were like, ‘Okay Dewi, this is the script’ and I read it and it’s interesting. Then they said, now they wanted a casting by camera, and I said ‘I just got the script’, they said, ’Just memorize it’. And I learn the process in the film making, and when I did the casting, I had fun doing it. And the next day I got the call,” said Dewi, who plays as hypersexual woman in the film Extra Large (XL).
In 2008 Dewi Sandra became the host for Indonesian Idol together with VJ Daniel Mananta and Marissa. After 3 times casting, Dewi finally became one of the hosts for Indonesian Idol 2008. She feels being more respected if she gets jobs through casting process, camera tests and sort of. Because it means she deserves to have the jobs and not because her connection with people from entertainment world.
Before Dewi became the host for Indonesian Idol 2008, she felt the struggle of people who join this reality show was so easy. Compare with times when Dewi wanted to be a singer where she must walked a long way process, it seemed that through Indonesian Idol people became famous instantly. But her judgment changed after she joined the Indonesian Idol Roadshow. “I must say their struggle wasn’t as easy as I thought before. It’s a lot of work. They came from dusk and it ended in the dusk again. Some didn’t even eat, or rest. It was just a beginning. After passing the audition they must go to Jakarta and faced the same pressures again. And it’s not easy to go through pressures, they don’t have any knowledge what they should do, they just go based on what they have. This is a very big learning process for them. But it’s good when you got ‘OK, yes you got in to Indonesian Idol’. So it’s a lot of hard work and today I can say I’m very respect with these hardworking people,” she said with sparkling eyes.
Dewi’s activities this year, besides still having contract with L’Oreal Professionel as brand ambassador, is as the ambassador for F1 Sepang in Malaysia several times ago. Dewi is also preparing the next album. Besides that, she’s making a theme song for HIV campaign with L’Oreal. All activities she’s doing inspires her to make another album. “It’s a good learning experience, and from this experience I got inspired, I get this energy to do more, that’s why I’m writing a lot, because for the next album it will be very personal because I’ve gained more knowledge,” she closed the interview.
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