- Semyon, you born in the Saratov region, in the family, distant from the actor. What was the logic of coming to the profession?
- It all started with lies. In the tenth grade, moving from one school to another, for some reason I told former classmates that I had already arrived at the theater school. B. V. Shchukina in Moscow, so I'm leaving. I do not know why. The age was teenage, and wanted loudly, beautifully slam the door. For some reason, I was believed to me, and at the final parent meeting, everyone congratulated my mother with the Son - the capital student. I remember, that evening we had a hard conversation at home. I was terribly ashamed. But after the real end of the secondary school, I had to fulfill the promised, and I really graduated from this university subsequently.
- But after all, some creative abilities you probably were.
"Yes, I also participated in amateur ten-year-old boy and didn't even seek success." I must say, I really liked that after the speech, everyone praised me behind the scenes, hugged, shouted ... But that I never believed in the artist myself. I have all the closest far from the theater: grandparents - engineers and teachers, mother - psychologist, dad - sociologist. But relatives should give them due, they did not oriented me with a future profession, providing complete freedom of choice. It turned out that I performed a lies once said. With the poem of Yesenin "Rus Soviet", with Basney Mikhalkov, they received at once in all theatrical universities of Moscow. Passed to Rati to Borodin and Pike to Borisov. I didn't say these names then, even who was such a wattang, could not answer, but was hot and ambitious. As a result, I chose a pike - I kept the word.
- Now the parents are proud of you?
- Probably. But I have an elder brother Eugene - much sharper. He is a gifted mathematician, a programmer and made a stunning career in the famous Silicon Valley in the States. For ten years, how he left there. I haven't had yet at home yet, but he often flies to us: and to me to Moscow, and to parents in Saratov. True, until the opportunity to get to me to get to me on the performance, and he can judge what I do, only in the filmmakers. Mom can not look at me removed. She sees not a character, but his native child. Usually she likes it subjectively. And dad can sometimes criticize.
"Irina is unusually lightweight, cheerful, unpredictable. It's not boring with her. You can not guess what awaits you next minute"
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- Facts say that you are an excellent family man, eleven years in marriage, you have a ten-year-old son Leo and the six-year-old son Grigory. Describe yourself as a father.
- This question must be addressed to sons. It is difficult for me to talk about myself in this aspect. If you compare with my father, he was in relation to me sufficiently soft and loyal. I unobtrusively brought up respect for people to themselves. I am also attentive to my children, know that they have been going on, always, no matter how busy, I find time to go with them together on performances, at the exhibition, in museums. Previously, she also helped the eldest with lessons, but then he came down from the distance, because it was not strong in mathematics or in Russian. I will say more - possess the monstrous illiteracy, and my grandmother, a teacher of Russian and literature, in due time was very worried about this. Although I was "good" at school, but all the subjects were given to me with difficulty. I loved only a story, and because because of a talented teacher.
- Sons also grow humanities?
- Lion and Grisha - guys inquisitive, read books with interest, in contrast, by the way, from me at their age. I, despite the fact that I had reading parents, to absorb the literature only at the university - Gotally tried to catch up. It was taken for both artworks and diaries, letters, memories of personalities who left their bright trail. I am still not indifferent to memoirs. Recently finished learning the notes Goethe - his Italian diaries, and thought it would be nice to drive along his route. (Smiles.) And, of course, I am pleased that I don't have to make my sons. In addition, both of them go to the pool and music school. Grisha plays the piano, and lev on the clarinet. It does not matter whether they will contact their fate with music or not, the main thing, the immersion in this environment from an early age is incredibly developing man. It is a pity that I had no such practice, since my mother was forcibly chained to music, and she swore to himself that her children would not be so tormented. (Smiles.) This, of course, she provided us with a brother happy childhood. I grew up the company, a lot walked with buddies in the yard, visited a bunch of sports sections. Then, we stretched the Volga outside the window, and everything connected with water and swimming was present.
- The appearance of your spouse is absolutely like the Italian kinodius of the era of neorealism. I read that you met with her in the theater from Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, where they served ten years ...
- Irina - a stunning actress! She grew up in Ukraine, graduated from the Theater Academy in Voronezh, played in Moscow, but now he is engaged in the house and raises our children. (Smiles.) Although sometimes it takes for some theatrical projects and really wants to shoot. It would be nice if she had gained interesting offers. (Smiles).
- It is clear that once Irina impressed you ...
"Undoubtedly, I could not stay indifferent to such a girlfriend." He began to know her. Not disappointed. Ira is a disarming honest man. She never delays, always says what he thinks. And instantly bribes that it is extremely responsible to the most important, basic elements of life. At the same time, it is unusually lightweight, cheerful, unpredictable. It's not boring with her, and you can not guess what awaits you next minute.
- Do you have a house open?
- Irina and Irina do not mind inviting guests. But our circle of friends, close in spirit, is quite narrow. And it somehow preserves, especially not causing.
- How to spend your vacation?
- Basically in the auto-designers: sit down in the car with the whole family and we are going south. This is in our country. But in Europe, they rolled a lot of kilometers. Nature everywhere I, of course, inspires unusually.
"Mom cannot look at me removed. She sees not a character, but his native child"
Photo: Evgeny Nikitin
- A huge piece of life is connected with the theater of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. Have you gained experiences there, and left, because they felt stagnation?
- After the institution I did not have a big choice between the theaters - where I called, I went there. And I really grew there, developed, acquired the skill. I played wonderful roles in good works. Armen Gigarhahanyan is a powerful actor, and he invested a lot in me, instilled a certain taste, taught the right attitude towards role, to partners, to the stage, to the audience. It was with him I found an understanding of myself in the theater. Although to the end, this condition still does not investigate. But "magic beacons", which are included in your matrix, he shared. It was a great life stage. And then he was changed to another, no less exciting - I received a proposal from Cyril Semenovich Seremennikov and six years ago became an actor "Gogol Center".
- Somehow for the flow you float ...
- I think it's not entirely true. My current theater is a happy good luck, but this case didn't just find me. Serebrennikov saw me in the play, which I had a tremendous work ... So everything is not just like that, and attention to you when the time comes.
- Silventmen were not your master at the Institute, like most of the actors in this theater, and you got him already formed, a mature artist who was very organically joined the team. Many Gogol Center perceive as an up-to-date, leading dialogue, training platform ... What does this theater present for you?
- I have no doubt that learning should not end throughout life. In my opinion, it constantly makes sense to know something new. Gogol Center is a team of talented, caring people who are alien to therapy theatrical intrigues and which are concentrated only on the workflow. Such a healthy, energetically feeding the atmosphere. Naturally, silventmen are our inspirer. His artists come out to the audience not in the jabro and leggings, who smell naphthalene, but as real contemporaries, with acute replicas of today's day, because they find an immediate response. With all courage and ambitiousness, he is inherent in him, he throws his artists to some darkest angles of the Russian Theater, makes it seeks to seek, mixes one with another, experiments and achieves a living result. Kirill Semenovich is a unique director.
- You play completely diverse roles: this is chikchiki, and manilas in the "dead souls", and Don Guang in the "little tragedies", and Kafka in the play of the same name ... It seems you even dreamed about them ...
- And there is! Well, I, in principle, not from those who dream of concrete roles - I am intriguing the effect of surprise. It's curious to embody the image, suddenly came to you.
- In the cinema you fall into projects are quite loud, whether it is "Kuprin. Yama "," Descriptions "," home arrest ", the film" Humorist "," Selfie "... for what criteria choose the material?
- Never refuse anything categorically. I come to the sample, and it becomes clear, I go out or not. That is, everything is fine or not very. This is when the cinema is underdeveloped to me people. Everything is easier with friends. (Smiles.) And now I would like to raise the cinema in my life. I will not hide it. I am completely not tired of shooting sites.
- You are generally a prosperous person, in demand, tell me why the depressed is that you confess in some interviews? Especially since mom-psychologist can help ...
- That is never the specifics of Mom's activities did not affect our family. She never sat opposite me to talk about my problems. This, by the way, can not be done with relatives. And I can hardly analyze this my state. Emotions are beyond the mind. It is impossible to artificially avoid this trouble. For a person doubting, reflecting such attacks when the world collapses, are familiar. Moreover, it is gratifying that the energy of this rot subsequently feeds creativity, leads you, step by step, to a qualitatively different level. But you do not be afraid, I'm not a suicidal person (smiles), the cyclical moments of sadness and sadness, when I damage the mood to others, and then I suffer from it, they rarely approach. And they pass. Like everything, in fact, according to wise promenade.
- You have funny instagram ... You have posted a video where forty goes around you and almost kissing ... is your pet?
- This intelligent bird named Tsypa lives at the neighbors of parents by the country. Those picked up his chick, who fell out of the nest, went out, and he became really manual, absolutely home. He flies, but invariably returns and adores all the brilliant, especially candy candy. You can follow it infinitely.
"Do not be afraid, I'm not a suicidal person. Cyclical moments of sadness and sadness, when I damage the mood around you, they still come rarely"
Photo: Evgeny Nikitin
- And social networks are tightened to you?
- I took a break in instagram. And the point here is not at all in time. Just, it seems to me, social networks provoke you to experience those feelings that I personally are not quite pleasant. It is envy, and vanity ... All this is an unnecessary bustle that greatly interferes, poisoning existence and does not allow it to concentrate on himself, to realize what is your opinion on important issues of today's day, regardless of the news feed. In this stream it is easy to get lost, the abyss and forget about your inner voice.
- Now it is fashionable to admit that the televiser is thrown out of the house, and you, on the contrary, say that you love to relax on the sofa in front of the TV ...
- I like that rare state of laziness, when you are lying, without thinking about anything, and you watch movies. Actually, for this you need a screen. Well, even for cartoons for cartoons, of course.
- Are you someone who builds plans, including?
- No, I have no ambitious requests, I do not promise to earn a million dollars to forty years. But at the same time I do not vit in the clouds, I have a family. Therefore, I am not indifferent to me that will be tomorrow. Here I am glad that a year ago we guided the housewarming in a spacious apartment in a solo house with Stalinist architecture.
"You surprised me, confessing that I recently reflect on the fact that if you were able to engage in acting craft.
- I feel that the acting is mine, but I suppose that this is not the only thing I can.
- Planning to open a family business?
- No, just that interests me little. Simply, you understand, I do not want to be an old artist. Yes, there are examples of outstanding masters who even kept the public in a tone, but there are other, much more sad examples when he is hard to look at it ...
- Do you imagine yourself a prosperous pensioner in a rocking chair on the veranda of my own house surrounded by grandchildren?
- This is a tempting option. But I meant that it would be nice to start in parallel to do something else. Suppose, charity or go to the environmental catastrophe zone to save any animals there. Take on something effective - useful worthwhile. Or, you know, archeology has always been occupied. These excavations in the ground, in the dust of the oldest values ... In our children's fantasies, I walked with scientists in long-range expeditions ... And what secrets keep the old sunken ships, which raise from the bottom of the oceans! I am aware that it sounds like madness, but it was my childish dreams that I never implemented. Megapolis, a familiar lifestyle, a crazy schedule gives such unacceptable things from us, but when the head is ventilated, again pulls to this, it seems unattainable - straight blood in the veins boil. Although I need it seriously, who knows?