“Every morning I wait for a miracle, and it happens”: Elizabeth Arzamasova about dreams, excitement before performances and “Daddy's daughters”

- Tell us how you started doing charity work?

- It was a very easy way. When I was 11 years old, a project began in which I was shown daily on TV. Recognition has appeared, therefore an audience has appeared that follows your face, an audience that likes the product in which you participate, like your character. The audience that trusts you. Therefore, artists, people who have their own audience, their audience, are invited to charity events, events - in order to attract people's attention. And at age 11, I went on a charity trip for the first time.

- One of your charity performances is “If I was ...”. Did you write the script for it yourself? Directed?

- Yes, I am the author of the play, the organizer of this action. I will not risk taking the title of director in the absence of a director's education. In general, the idea of ​​such a charity performance arose, as there was an experience of participating in charity performances of other foundations - for example, the play “The Touch”, the Co-Union Foundation, the performance “Poem” of the Galchonok Foundation.

I wanted a product that will find an emotional response from the audience. I can tell you personally as much as you like about the stories that we encounter during our trips to nursing homes, but I can’t get through. And the talented artists who are on stage, tell, can convey the emotions, feelings that we encounter there, on our trips, they can - such a rude, strange word, but - can reach out.

It turns out that we are knocking on closed doors with these performances. If they were open, if help always came to where it was needed, and on time, then, probably, such an acute issue of social performances as a whole would disappear.

The play “If I was ...” arose from just one conversation with grandmothers in a nursing home. On the stage, wonderful artists play: Olga Lapshina, Marina Dyuzheva, Philip Bled. And I, too, with them. We are telling a story. Of course, I fantasized her, of course, there is a note of fantasy in what is happening on stage, but ...

- And the people who told you these stories themselves were in the auditorium?

- Unfortunately, no: they are not transportable, it is impossible to bring them to the performance.

Most recently, its premiere took place. Soon we will play it for the second time, and I will definitely come to tell them that there is such a performance, but that it does not contain those superfluous details, very personal - of which I know, but which did not fall into the play.

This is the story that people - this is the older generation, the children of war - are so strong! Hope lives in them, they live in bright memories of what happened to them. Wake up in the morning, find a stimulus. Yes, in spite of the fact that they know that something is unlikely to change around, the wizard is unlikely to fly in any color helicopter and say: “Come with me, now your life will be beautiful, happy and joyful.” However, they find this resource within themselves. All the time we are looking for something in the external to be inspired by ... transmission, interviews, the beauty that surrounds us. People, communication ... and they find this resource in themselves and live by it.

- And what are you inspired by?

- I am inspired by communication with such people. This is a unique opportunity. Of course, in all this there is a moment “for myself”. So I know, when I go to nursing homes, that our whole team does this for themselves in many ways. Because, communicating with such people, listening to their stories (I go to the room of my 95-year-old grandmother, ask her how she is doing and get the answer: “Best of all”), you see ... My God, I dare to lose heart over some something completely stupid stuff!

This gives a great incentive to return to these people, try to be useful to them and not lose heart for various stupid reasons, to love and cherish loved ones, more often to tell our older comrades that we love them. Call them more often. I have grandparents living in Vladivostok, very far away. I can rarely see them, but I call very often.

- You, already being a successful theater and film actress, began to study as a producer. Will it not happen that you head off into this profession and completely abandon acting?

“I don't know how it will turn out.” I’m not making plans at all. But definitely the knowledge that I got at the institute came in handy in two theatrical projects, and I rejoice at it.

I don’t know what will happen next. I do not plan to quit acting, which I have. I like it. But before me there are no specific tasks - you know, so, in general, globally. I just enjoy what is happening around, and I'm glad that the production profession has an embodiment that I can handle.

• Elizabeth Arzamasova (Eve) and Kirill Pletnev (Alexey Lugatintsev) in the film directed by Vladimir Khotinenko "Pop"
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- How old were you when you first entered the stage?

- I was eight years old.

- Wasn't it scary?

- And this category did not exist for me in childhood. Scary - do not. That is, I never overdid myself. There is excitement, there is trepidation and a desire to quickly enter the stage: when you languish behind the curtains, you think: "Well, when already?" This is not fear, this is some kind of ...

- ... jitters?

- Yes. Senior comrades say: they say, when he disappears, it's time to leave the stage. But he is always kind of present and must be present. And fear is something completely like that for me ... a negative word. No, I did not feel fear in childhood!

- Do you have any ritual before going on stage?

- There is no ritual. In order to somehow tune in to a specific scene, to a specific platform, to the viewer, I sit and listen to the audience: how people sit down, in what mood they came - in a more joyful, funnier, or serious. It somehow helps me tune in.

- As for the dialogue with the viewer. You run social networks, you have a popular Instagram. Do you think it is right to transmit your point of view in it, to connect subscribers to your views, interests? For something, maybe ask them?

- I am glad that there is an opportunity to get such a return contact - quick, instant.

That's about charity events. How can people tell you that you are going on a volunteer trip when you want them to join you?

I think it is very correct that we now have social networks. I don’t know how relevant this will be in five years ... We are engaged in completely different professions, we may not intersect in life against the background of professional interests, but we can be united by interest in charity events. And now people who would never come together in life, would not drink coffee together, meet in a nursing home, and they have a common cause.

Therefore, on social networks, I invite to my performances, I talk about what the fund does. This is a platform where you can do this and get instant feedback from subscribers.

- Have you ever met people who first recognized you not as a famous actress, Galina Sergeyevna from Dad’s Daughters, but as a charity girl doing performances?

- Yes. There are very different viewers who do not watch TV, do not go to the cinema, and know me only from theater projects.

Interestingly, people from nursing homes do not care who you are. Absolutely. From TV, you just arrived from the concert venue - you sang ... absolutely! We all seem to be reset to zero there. Here, here come on from scratch: my name is Lisa, and you are Anna Pavlovna. Let's talk. Let's be friends. Let's sing together songs that I and you like.

This is absolutely some amazing story of such human contact. It seems to me that even age is erased. I don’t feel like the granddaughter of these people - as if we are all of the same age.

- Do you drive your own Instagram? Nobody helps you?

- No, nobody helps. I myself. It doesn’t take a lot of time - I’m a graphomaniac, I quickly write my large, but sincere texts.

- Are you grateful to the role of Galina Sergeevna for showing you to a large number of people, or, on the contrary, would you prefer to be met on other projects?

- I am very grateful for this role. Before Daddy’s daughters, during and after, I had many other television and film works, and theater, which I am also very proud of - but I understand that the daily appearance on television was first associated with the project “Daddy’s daughters”.

The viewer recognizes me from various works, very different - now, when the time has passed - but I am more and more happy when they suddenly remember this project. For me, he is associated with childhood, so I have more and more tenderness for him. I love talking about him, remembering him. For several years in a row I was the voice of the STS Love TV channel, there they showed this series, they repeated it. And I remembered with pleasure, watched with the audience ...

• © Shot from the series "Daddy's Daughters"

- That is, you are one of those actors who can revise the work with their participation?

- No, I can look at myself a little. It’s like you don’t identify with this person. But not now. Now it’s very difficult.

- Why? Do you notice that you made any mistakes? Maybe you don’t like the way you look in the frame?

- This is probably the story of perfectionism, which is in every person. Still, it seems to me that this is less for boys. Are they sure of themselves more, they care less about their appearance ...

I don’t look, not because I may not like the appearance, but because after all, a lot of time passes from filming a project to its release. During this period, you acquire new skills, new knowledge, you feel more adult in the profession itself (although I do not have an acting education). You are capable of more, so it seems to you that this is a passed stage and you want to correct, remake, do it differently already. I am not reviewing, because I would like to do it differently at the moment.

- Do you have a dream role? You have already played Juliet.

- Not. There is no dream role.

I try not to dream about roles and about something very specific. I am so lucky in this regard - in general, in principle. Sometimes I just have such opportunities, for example, the embodiment of my projects, which I could not even dream of some time ago. I didn’t at all assume that this was possible. But it turned out, here it is - right so close!

And the viewer is happy, as with the cinema, and with the theater always happens. Therefore, I just rejoice at what is happening and wait ... Now, from an adult girl it will sound, of course, infantile - but I really expect a miracle, waking up every morning. And it happens.

See the full version of the interview with Elizabeth Arzamasova at RTD.