Igor Vernik is a smile! Inimacy! Open! Incredibly life-affirming! She can "buy" almost anyone. In the MHT, where he has been served almost thirty years, it is loved by colleagues-actors and directors and adore fashionables, costumes, director assistants, illuminators, administrators - all! Beautiful sexes also often become victims of his charm. He was never alone, but so far she did not meet his only one.
Igor Vernik - Orchestra man. He is talented, a bright actor, a brilliant showman, a radio host, and from recently the author and performer of the songs. In recent years, he plays the main roles in the most noisy performances of Moscow. And just reached the premiere of the play "Musketeers. Saga. Part One "on the scene of the MHT, where he became Aramis. Success accompanies him everywhere, although it was not always so, but he knows how to wait, and he saves an amazing sense of humor and self-irony.
It seems to me that in recent years, after so many years of waiting, you have finally started mutual love with the theater ...
Igor Vernik: "Probably not always, when one loves the other - this is the key to the fact that he will in response to imbued with love. And my love to Mkat, laid down since childhood and explored at the MCAT Studio, was not always to the degree of mutual what I dreamed about. I had different periods of relationships with the theater. I remember, as I invited my parents to play the "Blue Bird", where he played a "black man", black, because it is not visible. And parents were proud that I was on the Mkatov scene. But now I really have a lot of interesting work in your native theater. These are "Primateonna", and the "prosecution witness", and "No. 13D", only the premiere of "Musketeers", where I had the role of Aramis, and now it offers a new job. I play different characters, performances are different in the genre, I work with different directories. And this is my acting happiness. "
In childhood, Igor felt an artist
Photo: Personal archive of Igor Vernik
Igor, how do you live in Zeitnote all the time? Or do you not feel it at all?
Igor: "Since I exist in this mode constantly, then for me it is the norm. The day after the premiere of "Musketeers" we left for Berlin to relax with the son Grisha, Brother Vadim and my ex-wife Maria. There was a difficult period when our family was only broken, and we had a difficult relationship. But now we are already absolutely relatives with Masha, and even Grisha told us in Berlin: "I have such a feeling that you did not divorce." (Smiles.) And here we were sitting in some cafe, there I just told my son about how important it is to be able to concentrate and mobilize yourself at certain points. Being near me, he, of course, adopt the model of my life. But he also sees me mostly at home or already on stage, or in the frame, so it is difficult for him to track the actual moment of supermobilization immediately before the "jump". (Smiles.) The fact is that I have an illusion that time can be stretched purely physically. Well, for example, I have happy moments - I love home with your family breakfast or dinner. We sit at the table - and I know that I will need to go to work soon, but it seems to me - this is somewhere there, far, not soon. I am in an absolutely relaxed state, but dad periodically tells me: "Igor, and you remember that you have ...", I answer: "I remember everything is in order, calm." But when a critical point comes in my inner counter, I turn on the step "acceleration". From this second, my inner rhythm changes fundamentally - this is, if you want, my stitching. And here the Olympic champion Bolt can not catch up. I quickly move to the dressing room, collect all the necessary things. My housekeeper, who at most recently did not rush to pouring tea, runs after me and asks: "Did you give food with you?" I answer: "Naturally," and she: "How natural?! I did not know what you are leaving. " It can be understood - nothing foreshadowed my sudden departure, my schedule does not hang at home. She rushes into the kitchen, quickly puts something, I am a whole dad, son, brother. The housekeeper has time to throw a bag with cutlets and fruit into the car window, and I press the gas pedal and rush at the limiting speed to work. "
Our hero with Mom, Anna Pavlovna
Photo: Personal archive of Igor Vernik
But then traffic jams!
Igor: "Further, I feel the feeling that the plugs in order to pass around, and not stand in them. And so happens. I'm not late. I can come in thirty minutes before the start of the performance, shooting, events, and not in an hour, as it would be properly and comfortable. My noise and blenders in the MHT are already accustomed to. Previously, it was stressful for them, now - the norm. Dad tells me: "There is a way to do everything well - to go in advance." Probably it is right, but this is not my lifestyle. "
I always surprise me that today you do not have and get to something, and then - once, and you find a week for rest, and more than once a year.
Igor: "Naturally, in order to exist in this mode, you need to exhale. And exhalation happens to me when I pull myself from this mad city. The happy cunning of my profession is that everything I do, I'm wondering. Of course, at some point, physical fatigue comes, when neither the brain nor the organism is coping with this burden, and even something that gives pleasure, you have to do through "I can not". My dad always spoke my "I don't want" in my childhood: "And you try through" I do not want. " A man should be able to do it. " And I explain my son that a man consists of it is from overcoming. So, I used to think that I would do it, and it was, and next month, next year, another in the spring, the other summer will take a rest someday. But it takes time, and I understand that this is not one spring, not one winter, not one evening the abandon from life, from that very Dolce Vita, as the Italians say, where I strive, but I can't get. Finally, I have learned to stop myself. I can spontaneously wait for a couple of days somewhere with my son or one. For example, in New York for two or three days. And just wander around the city, to be part of this stream, this energy. I go and how the fool smiles, because at that moment I do not belong to anyone but myself. "
Previously, I never heard from you so that you did something alone: I was resting, I went to the cinema. A need for solitude appeared?
Igor: "You know, in 1988 I went to Tokyo with Mkat, these were my first overseas tour, and I was settled at the hotel on the 78th floor in a single room. It would seem that can be cooler? And I could not sleep at night, as it was used that there is someone else in my space. At first it was a brother Vadik, our beds always stood an angle in the nursery, while we lived with their parents. Then I got married and lived for six years with my wife. When we parted, I returned to my parents again. I was twenty-seven years old, and I lived in the same kindergarten, and our beds with my brother were still an angle. So in Tokyo, I could not sleep psychophysically alone. But the time passed, and I learned to sleep alone, walk alone, watch the movie one and at the same time feel absolutely comfortable. No, of course, I'm not looking for privacy specially. When I am in a relationship, naturally, I try to do everything together with your beloved woman! "
In the TV series "Kitchen" Igor Vernik played an eccentric chef restaurant
Photo: Personal archive of Igor Vernik
The whole Internet, the social networks fester by your photos with the son and a girl, removed on vacation. Life changed?
Igor: "Approximately six months I met with the actress Evgenia Katcharovitsky. I remember I arrived in France, in Cap d'antib, to keep some kind of event. Late spring was, it was already warm, but not hot, and I was sitting on the veranda, dinner, looked at the sea and thought: "How beautiful life is! The only thing I miss, these are a woman near, who would share this feeling with me. " And I clearly remember this moment, I looked at the sky and asked: "Give me a woman!" I returned to Moscow. Literally a couple of days after shooting, hungry, I decided to go to one cafe dinner. I arrived. I went inside. Sel. And suddenly stood, came out and went to another place. And here we looked at each other, and that's it. We spent a lot of time together, even walked several times in Moscow, which I have not done a hundred years. But then a lot has changed. Let's see what will happen next".
When relationships end or suspend, you are worried, suffering how in youth?
Igor: "We were sitting here at night with Grisha, they said not as dad and son, but as two friends. He told me about his relationship with his girlfriend, what I considered it possible, I am about my own. "No recipes," I say to him. "Just listen to yourself and trust yourself." And if something does not fold, do not think that the world collapsed. In my life there was any. I was in love and thought it was forever, and it passed, then I fell in love again, I again seemed that now and forever, but then it was gone. " Do I worry? Of course, but this is my choice. "
And if not yours? Or was it never in adulthood?
Igor: "Armor appears with age. Experience makes us stronger. When you learn to play the guitar, then the pillows of the fingers who press the strings are very hurt. Then, with time, they are hardening, and you no longer feel pain, just play. So in relationships. "
Probably, it also depends on how serious they were ...
Igor: "Yes, inside ourselves, I formulate it as those that relate to my life, and do not have. But you can never predict everything. It seems that this is your person from and to, and after a while you understand that you are polar people. Or you think that this is a momentous passion, and suddenly it grows into a serious relationship. First you fall in love with just in a woman, then you understand: whether your worldview match your upbringing, your root system? .. The longer I live, the more I remember my mother's mother's. She understood life very well and felt people. So my mother said (maybe it sounds a little more rescued, if you do not know her): "This person is not from my notebook." Everyone has their own notebook, and in it all your human characteristics: how do you feel about people, what is important to you that you value, what is your environment, and what - no, what is your education, to what manifestations of care and attention you I got used to what care and attention to show myself ... In this notebook, and how many books you read, and what kind of music you love, and thousands of such elusive things that we do not think about, but of which your world is about, your cocoon. This is the information that, in fact, is you. And now there is another person. He also has his own cocoon, but at first you do not see him, he is unpacked, only a creature with beautiful eyes before you. By the way, I have no delimitation of blondes and brunettes, on the color of the eyes, the length of the hands or legs ... I just have "chemistry", attraction. And then we say: "I met my man," or "This is not my man," or like a mother: "This person is not from my notebook."
With Paulina Andreva in the play "N13D" on the Szekhov MHT scene
Photo: Personal archive of Igor Vernik
Was it important for your mom's opinion about your girls?
Igor: "It is important, but I could argue with it and say:" No, she is beautiful! " But, as a rule, Mom was right. I am a happy man, in my life were your favorite, stunning women with whom I was happy, I hope that there will still be one - the only one or a few one ... (smiles.) And when I tell me: "And you are not afraid that time goes ahead ? We must already decide, stop. " I ask: "And with whom?" When my woman appears, I am ready to sit down to her legs, clap them and do not move. I really want a child, and better not one, but from a woman who will be part of me. Here, by the way, Masha, my wife's wife, tells me: "You have an incorrect promise. What does it mean - I want a child? How will it appear? In the cabbage, or you, you will find it under the door to throw it? The main thing is to correctly formulate a desire, and then it materializes. " You know, I am now catching myself that we are talking to you not the first time and not the first year, and every time I tell you the same phrase: "Now, I feel, I will have a woman, I am ready," but There is time, and I tell you again ... I think it means that I am still completely young in this desire. (Smiles.)
You are infrequently seen in the light with women ...
Igor: "Yes, I try not to shine my relationship. Sometimes my girlfriends are offended by me, see this frivolousness of my intentions. (Smiles.) At home I am ready to put up with many. And in humans, it is important for me that I am absolutely confident in my woman, confident in her class, upbringing, in mind, wit, in her ability to communicate, in her education, internal freedom. In addition, often my girlfriends tell me that I suppress them, and they feel uncomfortable from the fact that the attention of others focuses not on them, and they are also accustomed to being in the center, because it is beautiful, successful women. They reproach me in the fact that I kind of like with them, but not with them at all, because I am with everyone wherever we come. And I answer: "Understand, I came with you and you will leave with you, this is the most important thing. You're my woman. And these people who, as you say, I gave part of myself, I will not remember tomorrow. " But this argument for some reason does not work. I had a strong mom. "
Stronger than dad?
Igor: "No, not stronger. Mom was strong in his own way, dad in his own way. They absolutely complemented each other. Mom was proud of his father, his gift and human, and professional, and Pope was proud of Mom. And this was their happiness, their harmony, although they had a quarrel. "
All your girls are much younger than you. Maybe you do not develop and because you are people of different generations?
Igor: "Indeed, my girls are much younger than me. This happens in life, I am an adult, and for some reason they are not. Some kind of unique phenomenon of nature, phenomenon. (Laughs.) I do not know, it's happiness or punishment. But I think that sin complain. " (The call is heard. Igor says in the phone: "Hello, Syonulka!" - Approx. Auth.)
Once again, hearing how gentle you call Grisch and how gently talking to him, although he is already almost sixteen years old, I am pleased to be surprised at this ...
Igor: "I communicate with my son as I feel. Although we have complex and tough conversations, but it only gets warm from me and only love. It is said that the boy must be brought up as a warrior, in ascetic conditions. But I grew up in love, and nevertheless I know what to make your goal to the goal. "
"Often, my girlfriends complain that I suppress them, and they feel uncomfortable from the fact that the attention of others focuses not on them"
Photo: Personal archive of Igor Vernik
Grisha remains to study at school for almost two years. And yet he was already determined who would like to become?
Igor: "I ask my son about this. But I don't get the answer yet. Grisha was already filmed at Oksana Bayrak in the movie "Choices" and played a good role. He goes to theatrical circle, and he likes it. But such a disease, desire, thrill to acting profession, like me, I do not feel in it. Although I remember myself and brother at this age. Vadik since childhood dreamed of tie his life with the theater, but he collected postcards with actors, program, knew everything about performances, read the literature about it. And I had nothing like that, well, yes, I participated in the competitions of readers, even defeated, played in school performances, I was engaged in a music school for the piano, I myself learned to play the guitar. But I did not formulate for myself that I want to be an artist. I think I even drove this thought from myself. Although I all said: "Well, the Vernik - the artist!" I remember how my older brother of Glory graduated from the MHAT school and came to different theaters, and he was offered to prepare the image of D'Artagnan and show him. And he rehearsed at home, I accompanied him, and when he left, then I myself sang these songs by presenting myself d'Artagnan. I think that Grisha is the same. I look at my son, listening to him, trying to feel his interest. Of course, he has almost everything in a material plan, although he is rather modest and delicate in his desires, but we want to stimulate his self-identification with Masha. I think soon he will tell us what he wants. "
And the conditions in which you grew were much worse?
Igor: "Time was different. I here recently told Grisch that the parents in the apartment still on the mezzanine in the box are completely new, bought in the 80th boots. The shoes "discarded" in the department store, it was necessary to defend the turn from the night, and gave one pair in hand, but I was with Vadik, and some of the girlfriends with someone, so we bought two pairs at once, because we knew firmly, What others will not be. This is the question of whether it was worse. "
To your age, you didn't lose the joy of life at all. And someone and at the age of thirty does not have it.
Igor: "I am always surprised by the conversations that I need to search for energy, meditation to discover some chakras, some points of attraction, giving a feeling of harmony. I can not understand why it is about. I, pah, ugh, ugh, everything is open in itself. "