We lived with Nikola Ristanovski and Toni Mihajlovski in an apartment for a while. There was never any rivalry among us, we worked together pretty great, says the famous inspector Tome from the TV show Prespav in the articles titled “When I was a Student” that fakulteti.mk is creating together with Pivara Skopje

Inspector Tome, Dzemo Biljbilj, Jerotie Pantic…these are the characters for which he is known by different generations-Actor Goran Stojanoski. He enjoys making the audience laugh and he is good at it. Acting was his love from an early age and in high school he was part of the drama group in his high school. His choice to study at the Faculty of Drama and Art –FDA was no accident. First, he enrolled at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Belgrade but gave up really soon.

– I was doing my time in the army in Belgrade and at one instance I met the actress Mira Furlan. She advised me to try and enroll at the Academy. I listen to her advice. Nino Levi gave me the books for the exam. He was also in the army with me. I was studying for the exam in a tank – says Stojanoski.

He was in the class of Vladimir Milcin and his colleagues were actors Nikola Ristanovski, Toni Mihajlovski, Dragan Dovlev, Maja Velkovic, Vladimir Jacev, Igor Madzirov, Zvezdana Angelovska, Elena Moshe.

– These were really good and beautiful years. We lived with Nikola Ristanovski and Toni Mihajlovski in an apartment for a while. There was never any rivalry among us, we worked together pretty great. I lived with Nikola throughout my studies and with Toni for just a couple of years. We spent a lot of time together at university, we prepared for everything together, we got along very well. We would go to the theatre; we would watch all the plays that there were at the Drama Theatre and at MNT. We did not have a lot of time to cook and we lacked desire to do so, so our friends helped us make a sandwich or two- he says.

In high school, Stojanovski was an active basketball player and says: Confidence was not a thing I lacked in and the theatre only upgraded my confidence”, or rather, it became the place where he channeled his emotions.

Applied classes were much more interesting to him than theoretical.

– I had good grades. The professors were excellent, they explained to us whatever was unclear to us. Aа my friend who trains aikido says: „Don’t explain, do the Work“, this was my principle too – says the actor.

We all remember the lessons and lectures of the professors that helped us later in life. One of these lessons was an exercise that Prof. Milcin gave to Stojanoski.

– According to the Stanislavski system, we would get one exercise or assignment. He said to us: I hid something behind the curtain on stage and you need to find it. We searched and searched and we did not find anything. “But there is nothing there” we told him. “Well, there is nothing but did you see how good you searched for it? -You were not even acting that you were searching-he told us.

Grades were somewhat important to him. He says “I will lie if I say I did not care”-There was no colleague that he preferred to work with, he says that they were happy and sad about the same things.

– Towards the end of my studies there was a time when I would ask myself whether I belong there or not, and whether it is it. But luckily, I realized very soon that I was on the right place. I was never stubborn because if you are, you will not learn anything. We would help each other, my colleagues and I. and we had to be prepared for the exams otherwise we would not pass, charm was not of help in this-Stojanoski admits.

He graduated in 1993 and after his studies he wanted to return to Ohrid. Today he works at the Ohrid theatre. In 1994 the premiere of the play “Somnitelno lice” (Suspicious person) took place on which he worked with theatre amateurs and yet the play became a mega hit for the years to come. As a theater group they existed for several years but then the time of Dzemo Biljbilj came.