- Did you read the books of Akunin before working on the film? How do you feel about the spy genre?
- To the genre is a great, excellent genre. Especially if the author is taken for him as Akunin. The "spy novel" was written deftly, famously, with an excellent sense of humor. I devoured him in one or two evenings, I don't remember exactly, then I got for the rest of the novels about Fandorin and swallowed them one by one with an appetite. This is a cool genre food: the ingredients are high-quality, and cooked skillfully.
- Members of the film crew say that on the site you all kept a book with you, constantly looked at her, re-read ...
- For me, this is in the order of things. Usually in the middle of the shooting or closer to the end I post the script, as I know it from and to. By that time, my own play was already in my head - I sink in it with the director. But first, when you deal with a decree, the book helps a lot. Lion Abramovich Dodin, my teacher, always asks the artists to read and reread the novel by which we do the performance. And not only during rehearsals, but later, when the performance lives his life. Let you read it for 150 times, you will definitely find something new. So it was with Akunin.
Moscow in the picture recognizable, but in some places it is still unreal, which adds an "spy" of Akuninsky Colorite.
- Fyodor Bondarchuk traveled to Akunin to talk about his role. And you did not communicate with the writer?
- I did not dare, it was limited to communicating with his book, yes in this and there was no need, because my Dorin is not like in the novel, there is another type there. Rather, Dorin in the film is Dorin from Roman Akunin, how he saw directed by Andrianov and played.
- Do you have common features with Dorin?
- Dorin is so cool that if I start to list the general features now, it will look immodestly. But something in it and from me, of course.
- Romance, for example?
- For example, yes. For me, a beautifully developing novel with a girl, his plot himself is much more important than the last chapter. Someone considers my views by archaic, but they seem normal to me.
"My Dorin is not like in the novel."
- What about physical skills? Your hero is perfectly boxes.
- The scene of the box in the film is not so big, a minute-two, everything will be in TV version, probably more. Before filming, I was engaged in boxing - first in St. Petersburg with a coach, and then in Moscow with the guys who put our fight, his drama and choreography. We fully worked out the technique of impact, the proper production of the corps, the movement in the ring. But this is an ordinary professional work, the main difficulty was not in boxing. Before the "spy" I played psychological cinema, as a rule, it was drama, and here - a comic, a completely different genre, another nature, which was first needed to master, and therefore it was hard in the first shooting days. Lesha (director Alexei Andrianov. - Ed.) In a good mad director and great well done, he persistently sought from all the actors of genre accuracy, and when he noticed that we scorch into the usual psychological rails, it was strongly stopped.
- The director described the genre of the "spy" as "cinema with a shift". What shift he, in your opinion, meant?
- The stories told in Spiders have the proposed circumstances: the beginning of 1941, the threat of war. Everyone knows about the preparing German operation on the invasion of the territory of the Soviet Union. But these circumstances and with the form of plausible events are placed in the scenery of perfect Moscow: the streets of the streets, the Giant Palace of Soviets and other totalitarian beauty from the famous Stalinist General Plan, conducted in the sky, marching physical cultivities, which decorating flags everywhere. The unreality of the world is emphasized by glaring anachronism, which looks true here. Any truth: Hitler is talking to his admiral on the antediluvian Skype, the Giant Camera Makhina is following Dorin, and he himself is not at all about the fashion of that time and freshers in pants, like Marlon Brando The film "In Porto". This is the shift.
- Do you think the viewer all these "shifts" accepted?
- "Spy" is a very ironic movie, but with a serious attitude to history. There is not the slightest irony over the tragedy, which the Great Patriotic War became for the whole country. This is a film about people for whom the honor, courage, love is not empty words.
- If not Dorin, who from the heroes do you want to play?
- Oktyabrsky, he is a cool type. Senior Major organs, the NKVD dashed and experienced all their horrors. A charming man, lovers and a lover of women knows a lot about beautiful life and expensive restaurants, a smart, ironic, but sometimes tickle, despite all his seemingly cynicism. It, of course, it would be interesting to play, but Fedor Bondarchuk seized this role, I had to accept this role. Fedor was very easy to work. He is attentive partner, it is interesting to him in the frame and not boring for the scenes. As well as with Anne Chipovskaya, Sergey Gazarov, Volodya Epifantsev, Vika Tolstoganova. Such partners are luck.
- Who, according to your feelings, is it designed this movie?
- For everyone. And on young spectators who come to the cinema, and on their parents who will wait for four series on TV. Here I look, suppose, "artist", and I want to be the same: to love so much, so chuck down, have the same pride (only so that it does not turn into pride) and also be friends with conscience. I hope our "spy" will make everyone who sees him, experience similar feelings.