- There was a big break between the two seasons of the "Triad" series on TNT - the previous one was released in the fall of 2019. Is this all due to a pandemic
?
- I think the creators of the series wanted to see how much the viewer would like the first season.
When the success became obvious, they decided to write a second one.
What we, artists, are very happy about: a cool, sincere team has formed, and we were pleased that we did not part with our heroes forever.
Although, of course, the pandemic slightly delayed the beginning of the filming period - just a couple of months, not without it.
- Do you communicate with partners in the series outside the set
?
- Yes with pleasure.
With someone more, with someone less because of employment.
From time to time we meet at events, take selfies and laugh.
Well, on Instagram - all the time in touch.
- Your heroine, Rita, should become a mother in the new season. In connection with this event, will the alignment of forces and the presentation of history change significantly
?
- The life of every woman with the birth of a child changes a lot.
Both internal and external.
The emphasis is shifting to children.
Including Rita: she, like any young mother, will not have time to eat, sleep, or go to wash.
Therefore, she now has no time for Tolya's throwing.
She has a child, he is hungry, and he needs a father.
On the one hand, Rita will be more immersed in the child, and on the other, she will demand from Tolya to solve this problem.
As you understand, the child is not alone, all the girls will give birth - they became pregnant at one point.
An absolutely impossible situation, especially for a young mother!
And if in the first season Rita was ready to wait until Tolya was determined, to put up with his indecision, now she is more categorical.
Rita is very lonely against the background of what is happening, it is difficult for her.
And from this, probably, she becomes softer, more vulnerable and touching somehow.
- In real life, have you ever had to compete with other ladies for male attention
?
- Thank God, this was not the case in my practice!
And good.
You know, I am for love by mutual agreement, not for competition - not for someone to fight for someone or to beat someone off.
I believe that everything should be mutual and voluntary.
- How uncompromising are you in acting
?
Do you often insist on your vision of the role or do you tend to trust the director
?
- If the director clearly knows what he wants, and I understand that he is a professional, then like an obedient lamb I follow him.
I believe that the director is # 1 on the set: whatever your opinion, ultimately you have to listen to the director and do everything to reflect his idea.
He sees the whole project, but you only see your own, acting "corridor".
This does not exclude the possibility that I can propose something myself, come up with something together with the director. I am always in favor of the process of co-creation: one way or another, but I live by this organism-character, it must be alive, not robotic. When I feel the need, I always offer my own version of existence in a particular scene. If our opinions differ with the director, then we try this and that. My goal is to understand and revive the idea, to become the perfect mirror of the idea. Well, the choice of the option in the editing depends entirely on the director.
It happens that the director is inexperienced.
Then I can take everything into my own hands - build a role, come up with a scene, even set up a mise-en-scène, if necessary.
In this regard, I am quite an experienced artist.
But all the same, I try not to fall into the hands of those who do not know what to do on the site: I like being led by a person who professionally guides this ship.
Therefore, categoricalness can only cause in me the director's ignorance of what to do with the role, with the stage, or with the project as a whole.
Then I can insist that this is how it is, and not otherwise!
Well, unprofessionalism is like a red rag to a bull for me.
- You started filming early. At 15, if I'm not mistaken. Don't you think you've robbed yourself of your carefree youth
?
- No, I think that I had a cheerful youth.
Working on the set is very interesting: you meet talented people, you learn a lot of new things, you have a huge social circle.
There was an institute, a film set, a theater, and insanely interesting people around.
This is my life.
I don't know what I would have done, how I would have found an equally fascinating application for myself, if I had not gone into the acting profession.
Since childhood, I have had an insane rhythm of life and work.
And this is my rhythm!
Therefore ... No, I do not regret that I allegedly lost my childhood.
No, of course not.
- Once you said that your life is more interesting than any role. What genre would a film be about you
?
- In mid-May on the KION platform, the project "Clinic of Happiness" will be released: here there is the role, and events, and originality of actions, and humor and madness of our life, and characters ... closest of all to "my" life genre.
This is dramedy.
With a lot of irony and a bouncing plot: from comedic situations to serious drama.
Probably, I would like an arthouse, but dramedy is our option.
A very lively, hooligan and at the same time dramatically accurate project.
As our whole life!
- With a happy ending
?
- For life, I would definitely choose a happy ending.
The only way.
And how it will be in the cinema is a secret!
I don't want spoilers, watch the project!
- When you played in the play "Portfolio", it was important for you to learn how to dance professionally. Are you in need of any other skills that would be useful to you on set or in the theater
?
- I use the ability to dance all the time.
Of course, the biggest dance experience in my life was on the Dancing with the Stars project.
It happened a little later than Portfolio and really helped me a lot to work in the play.
In general, Portfolio is an extremely unusual story: a mixture of musical, cabaret and drama theater.
Cool kneading.
And very complex.
In our country, unfortunately, the culture of the musical is completely undeveloped.
Artists are not trained in such a way that they can sing and dance without problems and do it at the same time, combining roles with drama.
You can do one thing - and okay.
Therefore, it was not easy for me in Portfolio.
But I can do it, and with vocals too - although the skill is not enough.
This is what I am trying to develop.
I also don't feel very confident in the comic role.
Stand-up, I think, would be useful for me from a professional point of view.
Well, I also want to deepen my knowledge of languages: to finish learning German (I speak it, but not quite fluently) and develop English (it is excellent, but I want more practice).
Perhaps starring in European projects.
Well, I'm a complete zero in martial arts.
Alas and ah!
At least it would be nice to get acquainted with this.
By the way, in the third season of the series "Kept Women" I had to box a little.
I then thought it was a cool skill.
I went into the hall, boxed - and the bad mood vanished as if by hand.
- Continue training
?
- Maybe.
I think when the wave of premieres, interviews, filming and everything else subsides a little, I would practice.
At least I really liked it, it's a driving sport.
I'm not sure that I would get up to box in a pair with a man (after all, the profession obliges - you depend on your own face).
But I liked the sparring with the pear.
- When you watch movies or plays, do you tend to analyze the work of other actors from a professional point of view
?
- I am a very grateful spectator.
With an open heart and mind, I watch movies and go to the theater.
First of all, I want to get an impression, so I turn off the professional deformation.
And then, when the film or play ends, I analyze some things and try to apply them to the profession.
I am generally prone to analysis and introspection.
Including - to the analysis of their own observations of life or the roles of other artists.
It's always very curious, especially when you're watching big, serious acting work.
From the last one I watched "Malcolm and Marie", and I was amazed at how Zendaya, a very young girl, works.
She does incredible (especially because of her age) things!
This picture is an acting trainer.
On another level, I was once again struck by Meryl Streep in the second season of Big Little Lies.
You don't understand the whole picture by what methods the actress exists.
She doesn't seem to be doing anything.
At the same time, the character remains a mystery all the time.
You don't understand which side she is on, what she is, who she is.
This is great.
Perhaps she is my only idol in the profession.
More recently, I watched Andrei Moguchy's "The Tale of the Last Angel" at the Theater of Nations and Happy End on more.tv.
The guys there are very young, but how wonderful they work!
In general, the generation 10-15 years younger than me is completely different.
This causes both delight and envy at the same time.
They seem to be genetically different, their body seems to work differently.
Including in the profession.
Compared to them, I am already a little old school.
- By the way, about the younger generation. But about something else - about your daughter Anna. Are you a strict mom, do you demand a lot
?
What are your goals
?
- Anya is an absolutely wonderful girl, lively and sincere.
She is smart, she is a great student, she is a very whole person.
There is some kind of self within it.
And I am a strict mother, demanding.
Well, it’s demanding ... On matters of principle, which are more likely to relate to attitudes, morality, rather than school assessments.
I, like my mother, categorically cannot stand rudeness or excessive familiarity in relation to relatives and friends.
Therefore, I always wanted my child to be well brought up, intelligent, able to behave and keep in society.
Of course, the educational process with us, especially before the age of seven, was not easy.
I, like every parent, set my own rules.
And the child endlessly conquered his territory.
While we were looking for a balance, a lot of time passed.
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But now I am very pleased to see how Anya communicates with her peers.
Firstly, she has a very good sense of humor, she is funny.
At the same time, she never allows herself to humiliate someone's dignity, to assert herself or to be vulgar - to which children at her age are inclined.
She knows how not to fight with anyone, always negotiate with everyone.
Anya is a very sensitive person, gentle.
Thinly feels and understands some things imperceptible to peers.
I, like any, probably, a mother, reproach myself for sometimes pressing too much, being too strict.
But what Anya is now, at her ten and a half years old, how she relates to the world, inspires me.
It seems to me that the methods of education were chosen correctly.
- Are you making plans for her professional future - maybe in painting
?
- At first we thought about sports.
Anya played tennis for several years, but then it became clear that this was not hers.
And she herself made the decision that she did not want to do this anymore.
And now it is clear that, despite good grades in all subjects, including the exact sciences, Anya is an absolutely creative person.
I think it will go into some kind of acting-singing-literary-creative history.
She also has an obvious talent for drawing.
Straight talent.
And it gives her pleasure.
Now she is engaged in drawing, and vocals, and dance, goes to the theater studio.
In general, he is actively looking for himself in creativity.
And I do not interfere.
If this is her path, then he will find her.
And if one day she realizes that she is tired, well, then we will find something else to do.
Anya is a talented girl, in any case everything will be all right with her.
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- About creativity. Before quarantine, you weren't on vacation for a long time. Is acting so energizing for you
?
- Honestly, just a lot of work.
It is very difficult to find time for vacation.
In this sense, I happily recall the quarantine time, when Anya, Vika, Varya and my dad and I spent a month and a half in our village near Pskov.
It was a great time.
We haven't all rested together for so long.
I have a good attitude to the rest of the sea, but still I like the middle lane more.
Well, or traveling abroad to watch, gain impressions.
The impressions were closed this time, and our country holiday turned out to be absolutely wonderful.
And then there was a hellish six months, when I was filming in parallel in four projects.
Because after the pandemic, everyone started filming at once.
Naturally, at the same time!
Therefore, I had to be torn between several large projects.
These are "Triada-2", "Clinic of happiness", "Mediator" and "Kept women-3".
And now they are all premiered, one by one.
- Here, about the "Mediator". You wrote that the role of Vera has become very difficult for you. Why exactly did she have such a strong impact on you
?
- I feel it this way: you, playing a role, pull on the energy of another person - your hero, and this other energy begins to pull from you what it needs.
The manifestations that I had to get from the inside for Vera exist in me, as in any person, but they are very toxic.
It's like you're pouring poisonous blood into yourself, and it flows through your veins.
For me, Vera is such a poisoner.
Vera is a “black” person of a complex structure, who is either depressed or hysterical, in a desire to slowly and severely punish the whole world, because she was offended.
Destructive character.
Depicts the victim while being a powerful abuser with a piranha grip.
I have probably never been asked to play this kind of role.
Artem Aksyonenko, director of "Mediator", very tenaciously, sees people through and through.
Knows what needs to be dragged out of you.
He, by some of his methods, raises all the silt in you, all your foolishness, vices and makes you carry it in the character.
It's very interesting, very traumatic and very cool.
I am grateful to him.
I think he's just an extremely talented person.
And it's great that we managed to work with him, also in such an unusual story.
Well, after all, the volume is considerable.
We were still filming in one big block, and I remember how after that I was internally "sick".
But, it seems to me, the role worked out.
At least this is something completely new in my acting baggage.
And I do not regret that I was “poisoned” for so long.
- Recently, during your speech at the forum, you said that you have problems with self-esteem. Does it interfere with your work
?
- To some extent, it interferes.
You are a public person and should be an extrovert, and you are an introvert.
You must be absolutely sure that you are doing everything right, and you are in doubt all the time.
You should feel like the king of the world, and you constantly evaluate your shortcomings.
But I work with this story of self-love and self-esteem, learning to live with it.
And, as I said during the speech, even if you are not completely confident in yourself, the main thing is to keep your face.
And not show anyone that your self-esteem is shaking.
This is also important.
I think holding your face is a royal skill.
I don't think that all your emotions should be shown to a wide audience.
The viewer still wants to see you from a certain angle.
And I am happy to give him this opportunity.
And my inner work with myself remains within the home, family and set, where the director can suggest how to turn your self-esteem and apply it in business.
Then, it seems to me, all creative people are characterized by reflection.
And it is right.
Such reflection does not let you stop, you always strive for a higher level, for better quality.
For myself.
Therefore, I think it is not so bad.
- Do you have your own techniques that allow you to cope with insecurity
?
Could you give advice to those who are experiencing similar difficulties
?
- First of all, you need to work with self-acceptance. First, come to an agreement with yourself and really love your "I". And then broadcast to the world that it is you, the way you are, and be honest in that sense. Learning to accept yourself with all your good and bad traits, difficulties and ease, it helps you to interact with the outside world.
And it also helps not to force yourself.
If you want to close yourself off from the whole world today, sit at home or put on baggy clothes because it's so comfortable, then you need to do it.
If you want to show off and have fun today, then you need to do it.
Thus, you trust yourself, your body, your instinct and become more natural, more comfortable for yourself and for the world around you.
Everything that helps you in these cases - from meditative practices to a can of ice cream - everything works.
You have to listen to your nature.
And be yourself, real first of all.
Believe that nothing is impossible.
Do not give up.
And then miracles will begin, and the world will surely open up to meet you.