Alexey Demidov had not the easiest childhood. He was brought up by one mother, and his father had fate with a criminal tone tragically: he was not when the boy was eleven. In heavy nineties, Mom had to trade in the market. Nevertheless, she instilled Alexey Love for the theater - "Swan Lake" he first saw in four years. And despite the fact that no one in the family has put on him special hopes, overcoming their own complexes and physical disadvantages, entered the theater school. So began his path to success. Details - Interview with the magazine "Atmosphere".
- Lesha, and who you wanted to be in childhood - did you immediately act as an actor?
- Of course not. I wanted to become a sailor. This dream appeared after what I saw the film "Pirates of the twentieth century". But my hero was not a character Nikolai Eremenko, but boatswain. I really liked how he jumped, Mina Splied, fought with pirates ... But somehow we were with my mother at her friend, who at that time worked as a teacher on stage movement in our Nizhny Novgorod Theater School. And she asked me: "Do you want to try to us? You are a factory, will be visible from the scene. " I agreed, but my mother was laughed, although she adored the theater and I took me even four years. And herself was a creative person: Drew and danced.
After the ninth grade I tried, but did not do. I strongly kilvil and was an increase in sixty-four meter. I reached the third round, where I was told: "We really liked you, but you need to grow up and correct pronunciation." And I had such anger that I began to play sports, practically threw school and grew up ... for twelve centimeters. I jumped on the trampoline, hung on the horizontal bar, swimming in the pool. I corrected my "P" from the speech therapist, although the doctor doubted that it would succeed. And when I came on the day of the open doors in the school, teachers, having heard my "Zdro-R-r-equestrian", were amazed and planted next to them. But I understood that I would take me. But for several years, all what is happening in the school resembled me a children's camp. What I will do this profession understood only in the fourth year. And after graduation I went to learn further, in St. Petersburg.
- Why there, not in Moscow?
"Because I love Peter insanely." And, enrolling in Spbgi (RICI), was happy from what I would live there for five years. And then thought about the fact that I would finish the institute at the age of twenty-five, which means how much time would be lost, which is not very good for the actor. After all, I believed that higher theatrical education is completely different compared to the average. But I can not say that teaching turned out to be better than in Nizhny Novgorod, and not a single new lesson by and large there was no.
"In my life there were moments when I was told that I was gray, I can't imagine anything. No one had a special hopes on me"
Photo: Vladimir Myshkin
- You were not afraid to throw the institute, not having a clear action plan?
- When I accepted this decision, I called the Rector, said that I was leaving, and, cheerful, brave gait went for documents. His hands with him, but, having come out of the building, I suddenly scared like this (laughs) that for a second I even flashed a thought: "Lech, maybe come back, ask for forgiveness?!" But it was a minute weakness, and I said "no". She took away from the unfamiliar girl of the month of the month to three - she just believed me. And returned.
- So quickly began to remove in Moscow - or what did you work?
"While I studied in the lower-urban school, playing a guitar in transitions. It turned out well with me, besides, I chose a faithful repertoire. All sang Rock - "Alice", "Cinema", and I am the songs of Vladimir Markina: "Tsarevna-Nesmeyana", "I am ready to kiss the sand", something from Rosenbaum ... In general, I did not sit without any money. For food and travel to the most deaf days enough. By virtue of its lumpiness, even left home somehow. And with the ends. Of course, we love each other with my mother and support, but at that time I understood that I needed something else.
- So, in Moscow, also earned a guitar?
- Yes, and a little more raised with the other. He studied in Pike, and I lived in his hostel. Soon got into advertising, moved to a removable apartment. Then a friend was called in the series, and he traded me on samples. They said that within two weeks they will call. The time of payment for the apartment was approaching, the money ended, and there was no call. And suddenly ... an unknown number, and hear in the tube: "Alexey, hello, you are approved. Tomorrow - shooting. Can you be? " I almost shouted: "I can, I can, I can!" (Laughs.) It was my first series "Redhead." At the set immediately approached the producers: "Guys, please, please, money in advance, I need to give away the rent." They grinned, but paid. And then there was a year of cheerful mischief on this project. It would be smarter, it was possible to buy a room for this money in the center of Moscow - after a year everything was twice as expensive. But in the pope the wind, in the head smoke.
In parallel, hit the theater "Commonwealth of Taganka Actors". I came to show with a confident share of pofigism, did not try to please. Khudruk Nikolai Nikolaevich Gubenko asked if I had something from the Russian classics, "I replied that there is no. As a result, I sang and played on the Waltz-Boston guitar, he fell with me, and then asked: "Salto jump?" - I replied that yes. I began to scatter, but he stopped me: "I don't need it, otherwise you still disarm to the damn mother." Just a few minutes after my departure, I was called from the personnel department: "Alexey, come to work." I said, "No, now I can not, it will break me from happiness, I'll go drink, and I will come to you tomorrow." They laughed, and I ran, bought a bottle of wine. Comrades took me down the stoken, we drank in the dressings, they told the bikes about the theater, and it seemed to me that I was now drinking, like those legendary actors before, and they did it beautifully. In general, for me it was a sip of fresh air. There I worked a couple of years.
- Gone, because "rolled" in the cinema?
"No, a strange situation arose, according to which I, let's say so, asked from the theater. Although Nikolai Nikolayevich, as far as I understand, I didn't really want this, but people next to him on an unknown reason for me as a reason for the leadership so that I was removed. Then I talked with the guys-actors, and I was pleased to tears that they were asked for two or three years. A couple of times I even played performances when friends asked to help out. Gubenko wanted to introduce someone urgently, but they insisted that I had, who knows the role. True, he never returned me to the theater. But I'm not offended at him, he is a wonderful artist and a very good man. The fact that about him is intrigue, not his fault. I am grateful to him that he left the theater. That would restrain me like some actors.
- In parallel with the active work there was enough time on love?
"Katya, my girl and fellow men, went with me first from Nizhny Novgorod to Peter, and from there - here."
- It was a serious love?
- We can say that yes. The first serious relationships that lasted long enough.
"I'm gulele, a fairly easy to rise, I love the company very much. But now I understand that you need to help my wife"
Photo: Vladimir Myshkin
- Why is it all over?
- We were not easy, we parted several times in Moscow, then converged. The case went to parting. We had a conversation, I said: "We are together so much time, in theory, it's time to marry, but I do not want." I thought for several days and offered to part.
- She was ready for this?
- Not. For her it was a blow. In addition, she did not insist at the wedding. We still supported relationships, but quietly everything melted. I didn't learn myself very beautifully and after the time I even called Kate and apologized.
- And when did you meet Lena, your wife?
- We met at the time I parted from Katya. But I did not break up because of Lena.
- Lena is not an actress?
- No, but acquaintance happened on the set. She replaced the assistant on actors. And on the formation of Lena - a social worker, in addition, danced for a long time. We were friends, and then everything turned into a relationship. After about six months, got married - and nine years together.
But we went to consensus for a long time, there were quarrels with screams. We are both uncompromising: I do not like when they manage me, and she too. But at some point, after a big scandal, when we had no strength to further clarify the relationship, suddenly there was a click, and we began to understand each other. I am glad that we overcame this stage and did not make such nonsense, how to file for divorce.
- Was there such thoughts?
- ABOUT! How many times! (Laughs.) Routed for a week. That was enough, I weighed everything, and we returned to each other.
- Lena does not work yet?
- Not. I do not urge her to work. Our eldest daughter Anastasia is seven years old, and the youngest of one and a half years is still small. But Lena really wants to work. Now thinks in which direction to move.
- Do you help her with household chores?
- I try to solve any domestic issues: take away, bring something. I'm trying to do something around the house, but I'm still so craft. So if, for example, I sprinkles the socket, I will find the electrician better than it goes there.
- Your youngest daughter is an amazing name. There is an old foreign film "Enemia", and so calling the heroine of Paulina Andreva in the "method" ...
- The old film has not seen, and with the "method" is not connected. Just came through the names, I said I like it. The spouse suggested that Eva or Leu, I insisted on Eenia. Then it turned out that in our entrance lives a dog leya. I then said more than once: "You see, how good that we didn't call the daughter!" (Laughs.)
- Two children are enough, in your opinion? Today in the acting families, even four children are not uncommon. Do not want a son?
- I do not mind if the guy appears, but I have no regret that I have a daughter, no. When the spouse was pregnant for the first time, all smart people who determine the sex of the child, in one voice, they told that we are waiting for the boy. I was already sure that there would be a son. They came to the ultrasound, and suddenly the doctor says: "You will have a girl." I was so surprised: "What a girl?!" - What he asked: "What are you, against?" And I just did not expect this. (Laughs.) But the doctor was in full confidence that I am evil, bad, because I just want a boy. In fact, I am very glad that I have a girlfriend. I do not know how it would be with a guy. I have a nephew - I think that the boy would be stricter than with the girls.
- The first child appeared at twenty-four years. There was no feeling that you are not ready for paternity?
- I love to spend the self-analysis of the work done and about some kind of act. But at one moment you will not prepare. This is not three hundred times squeezed out and then become ready for paternity. Only after the birth of the child will get an answer to this question.
- Your life has changed much?
- Yes. I am Gulele, a fairly easy to rise, I love the company very much. But now I understand that it is necessary to help my wife, so if we are somewhere leaving somewhere, together with children. And in my environment, many have become parents, so everyone is well understood. We are helped by mother-in-law, and sometimes we and my wife and at night we can disperse somewhere. They went to one institution, drank on a glass and then went, in an hour they looked into the next, more glass ... It is much better than sitting in one place. If I have been going to warm places for a long time, I take my own. For example, on the set of "Crimean Bridge" we were a month and a half were the whole family.
- Mom is now proud of you, tells about you in your hometown?
- Not. She is a very believer man, telling it - this is a manifestation of pride. I went to my grandfather, and he was sufficiently dry on praise. I remember how in the bottom after the graduation performance "crazy day, or the marriage of Figaro", when the directions who came to see the production were offered cooperation, I saw my grandfather. He came up to me, shook his hand and said: "keep it up!" This phrase straight me straight - she was the best greeting. Then, at the funeral, his friends were told that he was insanely proud of his grandson, but he never said that.
- And mom too?
- Not. And now it can maximize: "It was well done here." But the wife supports, we and our children try to raise it so that they feel that they are best and everything will work out. In my life there were moments when I was told that I am gray, I can't imagine anything.
"We had a conversation, I said:" We are so much time together, in theory, it's time to marry, but I don't want. "I thought and offered to part"
Photo: Vladimir Myshkin
- Who spoke so?
- Teachers, for example. I grew up with the feeling that no one imposes on me special hopes. In childhood I was a hooliganist. When mom worked on the market, I almost all the time was next to her, and the contingent around was appropriate, it was not before the disclosure of talents.
- One mother brought up you. You did not know the father at all?
"I still have a grandparents, my mother's dad." They helped. Mom had a business in the nineties in the market. She works well brains and there is a business grip. Father several times when I was quite small, came to us, but I vaguely remember him. I saw more in the photos. He was not when I was eleven years old. Contached with the criminal world, and he was killed. Sometimes I thought it would be great to have a father, but did not feel in this special need.
- His example influenced you? Do you have a taboo on bad habits?
"I smoke, started at eighteen years old, you can throw, but I do not want." True, now I have electronic cigarettes. We use alcohol, but I have no traction to it. I tried "Grass", but I did not like it, I can be relaxed and without it.
- In the new series "Big Sky" you play pilot. You said somewhere that he was noble, honest, sincere, even a naive guy. These qualities, it seems to me, are present in you ...
- Thank you, people occasionally note that I am kind, sincere or fair. (Smiles.) We all possess some good qualities, but in the heat of passion or anger, others leave us.
- Do you have flashes of anger?! And where, with whom?
- Not with friends - we have a good relationship. And at home I try to hold back, with my spouse almost do not argue. It may mostly be a reaction to not quite the correct behavior of foreign people in some public place.
- In my opinion, you have no negative heroes at all - all the time they offer good, charming guys. It suits you?
- In the series "Girls do not surrender" by my hero - with an ambiguous sexual orientation (laughs), and in the new work "Long light of the lighthouse" - just a negative role. Negative characters are better remembered, besides there is more fields for activity. Although try to make an interesting Ivan-fool. That's if you succeed, then you are handsome! (Smiles.)