Blue horse Martin Dejdar is not sailing away yet. He treated himself to his own book for his sixtieth birthday.

The book he was not interested in

Martin Dejdar never craved for an autograph, but eventually it happened and he christened his book a few days ago. "It's a large conversation about my life so far," he said in a promotional video on the publisher's website, which states that in addition to interviews that Jakub Fürst conducted with Dejdar, the work also contains two hundred photos and twenty-five stories from Dejdar's industry colleagues. In this way, the actor gave himself a belated present for his sixtieth birthday in March and literally put his skin in the game.

Without parents on the road to fame

In the pages of his book, he revealed to his fans a number of lesser-known facts about his infancy. Few people knew that his adolescence wasn't completely standard. Dejdar's father Vlastmil, who also appeared in the movie Sun, Hay, Erotica as the president of the Italian JZD, worked as a marine engineer and spent a large part of his life traveling.

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When the future actor was seven years old, his dad took the whole family on a big journey, where there was even a sailor's baptism – Dejdar's nautical name is Blue Horse. However, when he was eighteen, his parents went to work in Indonesia and he stayed with his older sister Vendula and grandmother in Chrast. His parents only visited sporadically, and because they returned after several years and immediately headed to another country, they missed his rise, when he transformed from an unknown young man with incredible energy into an actor known throughout the republic. Perhaps the lifestyle of his parents was the impulse for Dejdar to later not be afraid to move with the whole family to America.

Trouble on the home front

His father may have taught him to skate as a small boy, but he couldn't advise him on how to handle fame. Dejdar quickly became a popular artist, effortlessly oscillating between dramatic roles in films such as America or Dance Teacher and those comedic, in addition to breaking through as a moderator and entertainer - but many people perceived him as arrogant, arrogant and rather unsympathetic. He himself has long fought with journalists, disagreed with articles that were published about him, and everything culminated at the moment when Dejdar's son had to deal with bullying at school.

"The only chance to protect those children was to take them somewhere away,"

Dejdar later revealed in an interview with Super.cz. And that's what he did, he quietly moved to America with his wife and children, which became apparent in 2013. It lasted for several years, but the costly commute to work in the Czech Republic couldn't last forever. The family had to say goodbye to Florida, but Dejdar still enjoys going back there.

"I don't want this to sound stupid, but I come here like I'm going to a cottage,"

he said in 2022 for Life Among the Stars.

Dejdar as a (un)successful businessman

For almost forty years he has been part of the Ypsilon Studio, for thirty-five years he has been lending his voice to Bart Simpson and for just as long he has been with his wife Daniela. "When a person starts something, they should also continue with it," he stated years ago in the show 7 falls of Honza Dědek and he obviously sticks to it. Or at least he tries to.

If anything characterizes Martina Dejdara, it's the word 'active'. He constantly has some ideas and is not afraid to implement them - often to the displeasure of his own wife. He claims to be useless in business, but inventing and creating is his passion. He has already opened a bar, christened his own beer Husťan, or started making perfumes for Czech celebrities. Unfortunately, the fact that he is such a firebrand and has entrepreneurial desires has backfired on him many times. Not all of his projects have been successful.

At the end of the 90s, when his star was shining at full blast, Dejdar began to wonder if it was possible to film a movie with foreign actors in our country. He simply longed to create something that could go out into the world, and no longer wanted to hear that it was impossible. The idea was certainly great, Dejdar even financed the independent film Estate. Although Estate was shown in more than twenty countries, Dejdar didn't see a single penny from it. So the actor began to drown in debts, which he repaid for the next thirteen years. At that time, many people criticized him for taking jobs as a host even at private events - but there was no choice, someone had to pay.

This negative experience, however, did not knock him down, he continued to develop his entrepreneurial activities and it was not long ago that he hit again. He came up with that project during the Covid pandemic, when artists did not have it easy. And he wanted to help them a little to improve their situation. Under Dejdar's baton, a website was created that offered fans personalized video greetings from celebrities, but for a fee. But this met with some resistance from some personalities of the Czech show business.

"Under the incredible pressure of insults, slander, humiliation and mockery not only of me, but also of other personalities involved in the project, I decided to end the project right at the beginning. Not because it's a mistake, or because the project is bad. I am still convinced that the idea is good. But in such a hateful environment, I have no strength to create anything,"

Dejdar said at that time on his Instagram.

However, he continues to churn out ideas and it still doesn't seem strange to him to work eighteen hours a day. "I enjoy creating things," he admitted years ago in The Thirteenth Chamber to Jaroslav Dušek, and that apparently won't change anytime soon, even if there is occasional failure.

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