Magician Markus Tervo charmed Penn & Teller in the Fool Us Series in the United States

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Magician Markus Tervo The original Finnish magic words made the viewers of the big theater of the Las Vegas Rio Hotel as he stepped on the world’s best magic last July Fool Us -TV series cameras.

And Kas: After the magic words, the coffee beans turned into coffee in front of the audience’s eyes.

At the same time, Tervo, who lives in Kontula in Helsinki, became Christian Engblomin After only another Finn who has reached Fool Usin as a performer. Achievement is significant because the magic duo Penn Jilletten and Raymond wires – That is, the series led by Penn & Teller – is also highly valued among magicians.

Them Fool Us eli Rope us It comes from the basic idea of ​​the program: if the magicians manage to do their trick so that Penn and Teller do not come up with how it was done, they will be able to perform in Las Vegas alongside the legendary duo.

In the United States, Tervo’s coffee trick was performed on CW on Friday 28 February. The presentation is also available On the Youtube video service. In Finland, the series has been performed by MTV.

On the TV screen Tervo conveys joy and relaxation as he jokes about the happiness of the Finns and the nasty coffee.

A moment before the curtain rising, the atmosphere was different, he says.

At that time, Tervo’s hands shook so frantically that he could not make preparations for the coffee trick. Without them, there would have been no trick.

“I have never happened to me. I was forced to ask an unknown froster who was not even a magician, ”says Tervo.

Tar Has watched the Fool US Series from its beginning, since 2011, when he was 15 years old. He applied for the first time four years ago. After several video calls, the invitation eventually took two months before the recording.

“I was crying at the moment. I could not realize that my childhood dream was realized. It was the coolest thing ever, ”Tervo describes.

Then the stress struck. For a moment, he tried to create new additional levels of his coffee trick that could have made the trick to Penn and Teller more difficult to guess. However, the more complicated version was missing: the pleasure.

Tervo calculates that he has been practicing his coffee trick in two months about 1 800 times, 30 times a day.

“During the flight, I was most excited about whether my equipment would stay intact and not disappear.”

In the culmination, he is still making an earbarm for Penn and Teller.

“For that, I transported a bag of little buns from Finland. I had to hope that they would not be on the way because I couldn’t find them in Vegas. ”

Tervo was not disappointed even though he fails to cheat on the pennies and Teller, as the duo praised the trick from the ground to heaven.

“Hi Markus, you made us damn happy. Your style is so good! ” After the performance, Penn praised on the TV show.

Presentation Afterwards, Teller suddenly came to thank Tervo personally.

“He drew another way to make coffee beans on the paper – that I thought that this could be done so.”

“It was a great time to face her like a master who also helped to develop my own trick.”

The trip Tervo describes as a good school and experience. “I hope this program could open up opportunities abroad, even though the performance at Los Angeles’ Magic Castle. That would be a sweet milestone. ”