- Catherine, where did this spring start to you?
- I constantly start a year with a clean leaf. I already think to do: change the hairstyle or something else? I have now, probably, the spring period in the shower. I am waiting for some miracle. If we talk about creative things, just started to show "mom in law", where I play a difficult role. In addition, there are several scenarios who are about to start reading.
- Why did you decide to become an actress: a spontaneous solution or still the influence of your family, which is also very creative?
- I, honestly, I do not remember such a moment when I suddenly thought: "Oh, and not to be actress?" I was born with this, since childhood I wanted to be an actress, but I did not understand all the severity of such labor. It seemed to me that the actors are just beautiful and elegant people who are smiling all the time. Came, starred, went home. To all, I had a children's dream - to work as a cashier. So, as I wanted to become an actress, I do not remember, but I wanted to be a cashier - I remember. (Laughs.) We lived in a military town in the suburbs, we had a single store. There was a very colorful woman, there was so many relics of the host, that I also wanted to command the same.
- Your mom artist animator. It is rumored that the image of Alice Selezneva in the cartoon "Mystery of the Third Planet" was drawn from you ...
- Not that with me. I just needed to create an image of the same girl seven years old, a brisk, whitewash and fun, like me. Of course, my mother told me that she had no desire to perpetuate me. It just turned out spontaneously. When we read the book, we draw a hero, give him certain features. Also she - creating a character, gave him some features. For example, in the captain of the Captain of Green from the book Kira Bulychev, I see the image of my father, and someone - Kira Bulychev.
- But did you feel like a star in a sense?
"When my parents realized that Alice looked at me, and the film was shown in many cinemas, I remember that I was taken on the stage with a seven-year-old and said:" And this is our Alice. " And the first memories - that the hall is handcrew, and you, so beautiful, bow. I was happy. By the way, maybe after that I decided to finally become an actress. (Laughs.)
Ekaterina Semenova became one of the main characters of the popular series "Two Fates". In the photo: along with Angelica Volskaya. Frame from the painting.
- Now this work is given almost all your time. What else do you spend it with the same enthusiasm?
- on yourself, their children and yoga. I opened the yoga bikram yoga for myself - "hot" yoga. For classes in the room, a temperature of 40 degrees and a humidity of 90 percent is created. I opened this practice for about three years ago in New York. I just looked at myself for a long time, I was doing a lot of sports, went to the gym, on the fitness - a treadmill, dumbbells. Then I tried the usual yoga, but I did not get enough, it became boring. And once I heard about the Bikrama, which invented my yoga. I fell in love with this practice. Due to the fact that a high temperature is created in the room, plus moisture, the pores open and you lose almost two liters of water for the lesson. All toxins come out of you. First, when you start to engage in a hot room, it seems that you will not stand it, you will die. But after an hour and a half, so many new energy opens in you and so much forces appear that I want to literally go to dance.
- Your son has marks the other day. Tell me how his life takes?
"Nikita lives in New York, it works and studies at the New York of the Academy Film." This is a movie school. He went to the Production Faculty. Before that, he was engaged in management, business, finance. Now he is in search of himself, it seems to him that still ahead and he will still have time. He lives with Anna's girl, for two years. She is Russian, studying at the university on the political scientist. When he was small, I looked at him and thought: "I wonder what my daughter is me? Can I make friends? The main thing is not to become a bad mother-in-law ... "But I was very lucky with her, we are a real girlfriend. My son is quite closed, I do not tell me anything, so I lead all the intelligence through it. All influences on it - through her. She is my girlfriend, I love her very much.
- In America, the Son let go with a light heart?
- He just had a period of understanding himself and his life. He graduated from school and I wanted to change it to him, so that Nikita had something new for himself. It was a solution that we accepted with his father, Anton Tobakov. We sent it for a year, but it turned out six. And somehow I myself fell in love with America - so that almost three years lived between New York and Moscow.
- Probably English learned in perfection?
- No, it was already hard to learn him in perfection. Especially in New York, so many Russians that simply not to speak English. I have a girlfriend when I went to America, I thought that I would learn the language. Returned recently, I ask: "Well, how is knowledge of English?" She answers: "I go to school twice a week, but I do not speak completely. And who can I talk to? I go out into the street, and there are some Russians! "
- Your daughter Masha is 17 years old. Did she have already decided on the profession?
- Masha finishes school and will come to VGIK on the director of Multimedia. She is generally talented, God has not rested on it. If sings, it's beautiful; If draws, it's good. In addition, she is a very fondant person, everything interests it. Now she works with his classmate from the English photographer Alexander James Assistant. They make a film about him. They take his interview, he talks about his works. Very interesting! Yesterday I just watched what they were removed, and suddenly, in the course of the act, Masha spoke in English. She gets so cool, I was very glad. In general, I am very proud of it and happy that I have it.
- Do you somehow help her when admission to VGIK?
- She enters the director, thank God. I told her that you need to have a real profession: to be a producer or director - then you can also shoot yourself, and create movies. So my help will not need. And in general, in such a matter - only to harm. We have such a profession: Well, you will help you, if possible, and then what? You can't help all your life? And besides, this is not a very grateful profession.
- Masha has already starred in a pair of TV series ...
- Yes, for the first time she starred in the TV series "Two Fates". Then she was five years old. And this summer she starred with me in the "six weaves." By the way, with this film was a funny story. I called the director who was looking for a girl for the series. I, of course, was not against, but said, they say, she starred when she was only 5 years old, and it is not clear to cope or not. But she still tried and, in my opinion, it was worthy of coped. By the way, Masha never plays my children, she always gets the role of children of my cavaliers.
Maria, daughter of Catherine, finishes school and is preparing for admission to the directorial faculty of Vgika. And already removes the documentary. Photo: photoxpress.ru.
- In your family there are problems of fathers and children?
- With Nikita, we already experienced this moment, and I was lucky with Masha, there was simply no such period. We are a girlfriend with her. I study at her very much, she supports me in difficult moments, tell me touching notes, like "Mommy, do not be sad, not necessary. From sadness sick ... ". Masha straight feels my moods. She is a very subtle man. And the wisdom in it is not children.
- Why is the actress Katya Semenova be sad?
- Actors also people. We are upgraded, for example, do not want to grow up. Or not work. Or, on the contrary, a lot of work, and you think: "Lord, well, at least one day relax! That's all it will end, and I will lie three months, do not care about the ceiling and do nothing! " As soon as the shooting ends, thoughts climb themselves right away: why nobody calls me what's going on, I don't need anyone, nothing will happen ... and unfortunately, most of the artists suffer.
- And how do you cope with this kind of depression?
- There are different ways. I am engaged in sports, children, I read books, I meet with friends. That is, there is a process of some internal development. Anyway, you should be something filled.
- And who are friends from colleagues?
- My best friend is Alena Khmelnitsky. We have been friends since childhood, they studied together, together were on the course. And they carried friendship in many years, I admire it.
- Your children communicate with their fathers?
- When I parted with my husbands, I understood that the children were not to blame for anything and prohibit communicating with the fathers simply wrong. I even encouraged this communication in all manifestations. And I am very glad when Nikita meets with his father and is consulted with him even more than with me. Daughter now does not often communicate with his father, but let's hope that it will change soon.
- Some time ago you stated that they were not a supporter of official marriages. Now the situation has changed?
- Time passes - and you change. But while I do not plan anything like that ... Although spring is coming now, I will change and waiting for some romantic adventure. True, until no one managed to conquer my heart.
- Despite your doubts about marriage, you were still married, and for the American ...
- I was so passionate about America, which was fascinated by the American. But, unfortunately, we divorced. It seemed to me that you can live at a distance in different countries. But in our situation it did not work out. And we diverged.
- What should be a man who would be able to conquer you?
- He must be a friend. First of all. It is important for me that with a person to talk about. Passion is fine, but when it passes, people just do not talk about. For example, my parents who are married more than forty years old, all the time something lively is discussed. Of course, in my meaningful age, I already really want partnerships so that you understand not only in your joys, but also in problems and adversities. But I would not want to marry the actor.
- It is no secret that the stars often indulge with gifts. What unforgettable presents gave you?
- Somehow I was invited to a date, and I broke the car. And the next morning in the yard I was waiting for me - from my boyfriend. Eight of "Zhiguli", the export option is a cool car at that time. She was stolen in a week. And from the house of the girlfriend, Alena Khmelnitsky. Well nothing. He gave me another. (Laughs.)
- Now among celebrities, a real baby boom. Everyone give birth. Don't you plan anything like that?
- I gave birth very early. Not that it was my mistake, but now I understand that I could not let my son of the wrongness, that love could give now. In 20 years I wanted to do career, and only now for me the most important family. I probably still wait for grandchildren. (Smiles.) And they will already be played with all its unaffected love.
- It is rumored that in your apartment is now repairs. What will you change?
- on the reason unauthorized me, I flooded the neighbors. I have an old house, and the pipe broke through the apartment. But the benefit of the neighbors themselves did repair. The owner was a wonderful young man who did not give a scandal not enough, but also gave his workers. They make me repair. I would never have decided on it myself. Thought to change only the pipes, but one reached out after another. Previously, children lived in the same room, which I divided in half. Then the son went away, and I turned half a walk to the dressing room for Masha. True, as soon as I did all this, I called my son and said: "I'll take it away and return to Russia. And we will live with you ... "(smiles.) So, apparently, I will have to give them a room, but to live anywhere.
- As far as I know, you are still a happy dacha owner in the suburbs.
- I was born there and lived up to eight years. Little house and plot. A kind of family patrimony. Then parents built a mansion. Mom was a designer, and the artist. This is her brainchild. It is made with such love and will remain with us forever. Not for sale and does not change.