In his 68 years, Yuri Nikolaev continues to lead an active television life and this season presented his new project.
- You are from those people with whom many have been associated with many years already the television itself. Only in the "morning mail" you worked sixteen years. There were moments when you felt fatigue from such work?
- No, it was not. When you work in a buzz - you sit with the editors' guys and invent something else to surprise the viewer, it only gives pleasure, but not fatigue. I can not say that I am an iron man who never tired. Of course, tired. But it was a pleasant fatigue.
- Through your programs, many artists, who later became the stars. Are they grateful to you today? You are communcating?
- And we communicate, and friends, and call us, and we meet. That's just recently came from the meeting - Igor Nikolaev had. Sometimes I tell me that I have no enemies. But if I lived a big life and I do not have them, it means I spent wrong somehow. (Laughs.) I hope they have them. (Laughs.) But among those with whom I communicate, I really do not have enemies. We have nothing to share, we never crossed each other. Over the years, on the contrary, relations become warmer and sentimental.
- How do you react when you are called live legend TV?
- It's nice. (Laughs.) But how much is it true? By the way, I am very critical of our work.
- Are you imaging?
- Yes. And very deep.
- Whose opinion is you treasure?
- Different people, but first of all, of course, the opinion of the spouse. True, what the spouse says about me, I immediately share a hundred fifty, knowing that she was my wife. (Laughs.) Yes, and I myself see that I could do, but what I did not. So it does not happen that everything is fine.
Yuri and Eleanor met more teenagers, and her husband and wife became in the spring of 1975
Photo: Personal archive Yuri Nikolaev
- TV viewers of decades have met with you on weekends in the morning. You gave a wonderful mood. And your new program "Honest Word" comes out in the morning. Are you in life owl or lark?
- I owl, deep owl. (Laughs.)
- How are you preparing for the program now?
"If I don't know the person with whom I will talk, I try to get more information." But it turns out that almost all of my heroes are my friends. (Smiles.) You just need to remember what it was and how it happened. (Laughs.) I remember many stories, but, however, not everyone needs to tell. (Smiles.)
- With such an impressive experience of work, you are familiar to the excitement before shooting?
- Of course, some excitement is present. If the actor on stage or before the television camera does not worry, it means that he chose not his profession. If the nerve disappears, it means that the person does it. The excitement must be present. Another thing - how do you cope with him, send. The main thing is to find the right rhythm, the necessary feed.
- Do you remember your first gear?
"When I worked in the theater, I was invited to television to various dramatic TV links. Like many actors. But I was worried. I was helped by the senior comrades from Mkhat, Pushkin Theater, who were much more experienced. When I moved to Central Television, my first working day was on Shabolovka. Light bulb is lit, you turn on the microphone and, being on the air, say your words. Then, oddly enough, there was no excitement. Probably, I already perceived the cameras as something necessary for work. Although after this first ether they called me, made comments, taught how to react to a lit light bulb. In general, working nuances.
- Do you read feedback on your new program? And is it necessary for you to work?
- Yes and no. I decided not to get involved for myself. Reviews come across negative, and I will worry. It will not give me anything good, but can harm.
- How do you think, what is missing today to our modern television?
- This is a conversation for three hours. I would like to be a good domestic program, not licensed on the air. But this, unfortunately, no.
"I am a rather egostic person, so I would not allow myself forty years to live with an unloved woman"
Gennady Avramenko
- Is it necessary today censorship or age restrictions on television channels?
- in each program its laws, their algorithms; Naturally, there are age limitations, and not only. We seem to me too cling to this word. Once, Yuri Nikolaev, instead of saying "Good morning," said "Good morning" - and it was forced to rewrite accession. Of course, this is nonsense. But sometimes you hear a lot of interesting things from the TV screen of Central Television, which I did not hear before.
- Do you get to work with pleasure today and with pleasure to come back home?
- Three times - yes! If only the weather was good. (Laughs.)
- Where did you get so much energy from?
- I was engaged in sports all my life. Until now, I love big tennis, football. I can not lie in a sun bed on the beach by the sea. The main thing is to move.
"You are with your wife Eleonor for forty years together." Probably, can you write a book about the secrets of a long living together?
- The secret is only one. I am a rather selfish person, so I would never allow myself forty years to live with an unloved woman. (Laughs.) Frictions were, of course. I sometimes ask me, did we really not want to divorce over forty years. To which I invariably answered: "Divide - no, but killed - the thought was!" This is an old joke, but it seems to me, very accurate. Everything happens in life, but the basis is forgiveness and understanding.
- Can you today, after so many years together, surprise each other?
- Not so often, but it happens. Driving past a flower store, buy flowers, it, in my opinion, is absolutely normal. Or knowing that she loves, make a small souvenir from it. This is also normal.