Febby Rastanty Has Difficulty Learning Javanese Language Intonation For Art Films To Understand Lovers

Febby Rastanty (Virgilery/VOI)

JAKARTA - Febby Rastanty is trusted to play Kalis Mardiasih who is a Javanese woman in the film Art of Understanding Lovers. To deepen the character, Febby admitted that it took one and a half months to learn Javanese before filming.

"Actually, it didn't take long, maybe about a month and a half, from pre-production, reading to filming, yes, during filming, I also continued to study," said Febby Rastanty in the Kuningan area, South Jakarta, Monday, September 2.

He was grateful that the shooting locations that were mostly carried out in Yogyakarta helped him to learn Javanese from the natives there.

"Maybe because we shot it in Yogyakarta, it's very helpful because every day at the hotel, for example, walking to a cafe to a coffee shop, you hear people speaking Javanese. It's enough to help me to speak Javanese more smoothly," he added.

Other players, who are mostly Javanese, also helped him pronounce Javanese properly.

"Then from the cast there is Elang, Sisca, all of the foreigners are really born and big and have lived in Java, so they really help me," he continued.

"And Mas Jeihan, from the start we really had a script surgery, my dialogue surgery was one word, so it's like we're looking for what's good to say and sound right," explained Febby Rastanty.

Even so, Febby admitted that he had difficulty learning Javanese, especially in the intonation, which when the intonation is wrong, will have different meanings, he said.

"There are many intonations that I have to learn, like he said I said correctly, but the intonation sounds wrong, it means that there are still some words that should be suppressed, for example, how come this seems difficult for you to learn, that's what you have to learn," he said.