Anatoly Kat, to which the nickname "The main villain of the screen" has already adopted, this fact is not unattable. And those who were lucky enough to talk with the actor, open in it the abyss of charm, charismaticness, humor and something else - ecliping like a smile of Cheshire Cat. Details - in an interview with the magazine "Atmosphere".
- Anatoly, you were born in the family, where no one was associated with the acting profession. How did your relatives react to your choice?
- raising her daughters now, realize that it is overly grateful to mom and dad for the fact that they have not been crushed at me. I quietly perceived my desire to become an actor, the older brothers sometimes podded. They are military, in the Soviet Union, this profession was quoted. We have a family joke: the Father had three sons - two military, and the third artist. (Laughs.)
- And dad, by the way, who was in the specialty?
- The first specialty is a tractor driver, so he was sent to serve in the tank troops in Berlin. There was just built the Berlin Wall. And then he worked as an electrician. He saw his main task to feed our big family, so he was taken for everything that money could bring. He had golden hands: for example, he learned to extract sheep skins and sew shelters, caps, rewriting cars, engaged in the repair of engines. And Mom Chemik, worked on Minsk Vodokanal, in the laboratory.
- You went to theatrical circle, to school with theatrical bias ...
- Yes, but I have been engaged in sports: basketball, boxing and judo. I was painfully thin - in my father went. And suddenly the boxing coach put on the competition. For me it was very exciting. I remember, went to the locker room, changed clothes, began to heal and, without leaving the ring, heard that I was declared the winner.
- Like this?
- So I was surprised, I set up to the coach, I ask: "How is it?" And he answers: "You understand, there was no one else in your weight category." (Laughs.) And then went to the theater circle, and I sucked.
- Many participate in school performances, but not all then become artists. What gave you reason to believe that you will succeed?
- Maybe the fact that I did not know anything else. (Laughs.)
- Knee? Such dad, probably taught everything everything.
- I was at dad to the apprentice. More computers were interested, then they only appeared. But due to the fact that I was not strong in mathematics, did not go through the programming path. But when he already entered the Belarusian Academy of Arts, did not imagine himself in another sphere.
- Have you been aware that you are in a profession, which is very unstable in the financial sense? You have grew in a poor family.
- The fact that so unstable - did not assume. I graduated from the institute at the beginning of the nineties and came to work in the theater. It was a difficult time for the entire post-Soviet space. And even more so it was hard for actors theater who received meager salaries. Thanks to the parents, I had an angle and table. They treated very tremantly to my classmates - and sometimes almost the whole course happily came to visit me. We discussed creative there, and my mother fell us. (Smiles.)
"With its main task, Dad saw to feed our big family, so he was taken for everything that brought money"
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- What are the parents of parents - and the words of reproach.
- Yes. But I tried to bring a penny to the house. There were a part-time in the nightclubs leading to the radio, I did a dubbing of advertising, voiced movies - and gradually could become financially independent. I even bought my mother washing machine. (Smiles.)
- How did you get to Germany?
- In 2000 I found myself on free bread, left the theater in protest. We have removed the founder of the theater, the artistic director Valery Mazynsky, and most of the artists left the theater. And then came the offer to go to the theater festival to Berlin. The Goethe Institute collects people whose profession is connected with the theater - these are directors, actors, composers, artists in the costume, and conducts master classes. There I met one director who offered me a contract.
- And you easily agreed ...
"At that time I was not connected with nothing: I had no family nor the theater, just started small roles in the movie, there was nothing to lose.
- So you are easy to lift a person?
- on the rise - yes. But if I knew how it would be hard to work, not knowing the language! In school, I taught French, in the institute English, but I gave me bad languages. And here - you need to play German. I had to look for textbooks. And when after the first contract, the second, third, I went to the language courses.
- Have you perceived that period as a certain experiment or did you have further plans?
- Plans were. But I realized that with my level of knowledge of the language, an accent I could not fully realize in Germany, it will take years. And I wanted to actively work, do not wait for small roles, episodes, where you need an actor talking to the eastern accent. I talked with colleagues who moved there, and realized that there would be no such implementation in the profession I dreamed of. The best is to go to Moscow, where more opportunities.
- What made you this experience besides the fact that you are well able to see the images of the Aryans?
- The acting experience is colossal, this is another school. I will never forget the first rehearsal on which we were given the schedule of performances and tour for half a year ago. In our industry it is unlikely. And there all workshops work as coins of a well-established car. And if they have a premiere for such a number - it is iron. They cannot imagine what can be otherwise. For me, such an example was indicative. Two-three weeks, we gathered with colleagues after the rehearsal, some holiday was, we sat so much. (Smiles.) The next morning looked at himself in the mirror, I think: "We still drank how I should hurt." I come at ten in the morning at the rehearsal - and colleagues like a cucumber, as if there was no on the eve of a turbulent party. They clearly share work and life. And then I understood: either you do not drink at all, or do everything to be at ten in the morning to work as a glass and with full return to work on the scene.
The first wife of the cat was Julia Vysotskaya. True, this marriage was a fictitious - actress needed Belarusian citizenship to work in the theater
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- Did it give you some kind of bonus in Moscow? We have a pitue with dietary actors who worked in Europe.
- Honestly? I do not know, I did not feel. At the set of "Kamenskaya" in Minsk, I met Stas Ruzhnikov (he then worked at the Gigarkhanian theater) and he suggested: let's go to us. I was introduced into the play "Three sisters". I met Armen Borisovich, he said: "Come on while we see if our blood type matches." And at the end of the season, I was pleased: "Labor bring!" - So I found myself in the theater's troupe.
- You are often asked about the abundance of villains in your filmography. But in order to play a negative hero, you need to dig in yourself and remove all this black.
- As Armen Borisovich said, there is only black and white, in life a mixture of paints. I do not want to say that in the soul I am a killer and fascist. The main thing is to find an excuse for your character why he makes one or another. There are no motives on everything and even how it seems to him, they are noble. For example, the hero does it like that for love, I know this feeling. I just, Anatoly Cat, I will not go to betrayal for love. Or he wants money, just much more than me. But I will not kill because of this friend.
- As in the TV series "Heaven will wait", which recently passed on the TV channel "Russia".
"I am the roads of this project, and the author of the script, Leonid Kudroudo, have long been friends." And the role of Yuri Mazurov he wrote for me. Having done a terrible, catastrophic act, my character does not try to correct the error, and is even more immersed in the swamp. The dark strength won everything is kind. And for me it was important to show how he degrades every day. It was a huge responsibility. Sometimes it is worth seeing such a story to understand that I don't want to live like that.
- Still hard to dive into such black energy?
- So I love to laugh. (Laughs.) My favorite genre in the theater is tragicomedy. I came up for myself that when a funny moment in the play, a person relaxes, smiles, the armor of daily worries comes from him, and it's easier to reach his heart with some good thought.
Anatoly grew in a large family: his brothers became military, older sister-artist, and the youngest too chose an acting profession
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- And it was that on the street to you approached: why did you play so much?
- Yes. And the brightest example is with "soldiers." I played a bad man, an individual. We shot in the real military unit in Nakhabin. They went to the porch to make, smoke. And here, from behind the corner, this part of this part appeared. He was slightly underfield, saw me - and with fists: "In life, are you the same bitch as in the movie?" Ok, comrades My glory Grishechkin, Lesha Oshurkov helped him: "But okay you, he is just a talented artist." Or, on the contrary, after the comedy performance, a person is suitable, begins to communicate with me and conclude: "And you are not like that in life!". Well, of course, stupid to associate actors with his characters. Although something penetrates you. I play in the play "Tram" desire ", and I came up with my hero Stanley Kowalski was injured in the war in the shoulder. Two years later, I just broke the clavicle on this shoulder. And in life sometimes there are situations that I played in the movies. And it is not always possible to immediately release the hero from myself. Probably there are some meditative practices, but I do not know how. Therefore, sometimes I drink a glass of wine after the play, to relax. (Smiles.)
- On-screen images influenced the relationship with girls?
- No, except that it was easier to get acquainted. (Laughs.) The fler of the acting profession helped.
- Your previous wife Alena was not from your sphere, but Janina - actress. Still, better when a person understands acting cuisine?
- On the one hand, yes. We all delay in the shooting and in the theater, treat with understanding when someone from us is busy work on the role, teaches the text. But, on the other hand, life is harder. The graphs catastrophically do not match. Joint holiday is happiness. Thanks pandemic. (Laughs.)
- Did you get acquainted with Yanina on the set of the series "Margosha" - immediately an attraction arose?
- No, probably, it happened after the scenes. We ended up in a common company and saw each other somehow differently. That's where "Chemistry" arose.
- Profession is public, and the novels of actors always cause increased interest. Did it stop you?
- Like the brain neither resisted, the feelings won the top. (Smiles.)
"With Janina, we ended up in a common company and saw each other somehow differently. That was the" chemistry ". The brain resisted, but the feelings took the top"
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- Did you have a period of courtship?
- No time for slow dances! (Laughs.) Joke. Of course, we also passed a candidate and bought period.
- And what happened after sweets? During these ten years, you changed each other?
- No, It is Immpossible. It seems to me that to put a goal to change your partner, a loved one - this is a failure. I loved Janin as it is.
- At first, it happens: fall in love, and then - your ears have an irregular shape and do not know how to do.
- Well, any family life happens, can and cutlets do not like. (Smiles.) My passion for fishing, for example, Janina is not something that does not approve, she does not perceive hiking life, can not be in the tent for a long time. And I calmly treat it, I got used to it. Since childhood, his father exported all of our family to nature. We have lived on the shore of some lake for several weeks. It is clear that over the years I want more comfort, and there are such opportunities - go fishing, where the house with all the amenities.
- And where do you like to fish?
- Call you fish places? (Laughs.) I have a friend Sergei Grigoriev who lives in the Kaliningrad region. Here he is a real fisherman, I'm just learning. (Smiles.) And together we are fishing not only in the Kaliningrad region, but fly to Norway and Sweden, Finland. And in Cyprus, I greeted a little.
- In Cyprus, good fishing?
- There is such a fish - bass. She was brought to the Cyprus reservoir from America, and she passed. True, not such large specimens, as in their homeland, but still interesting. By the way, in the suburbs there is one farm that grows basms, you can go there. Boast. In 2017, our team, which is called Real Hogs ("Real Kabany") in Norway, took the first place for catching the fellow on an artificial bait.
- Blimey!
- It was a harsh fishing: cold, storm, sea disease - to find and catch the halotus was not easy. But it was worth it. I am waiting for the story on the planet with coronavirus, so that you can again move on your favorite places. And here in Norway just there are houses - not a choir, but everything you need is present: toilet, shower, stove.
- Daughters took with you?
- I took a younger couple of times, the ases of catching fish she passed.
- What is this - to be a dad girl?
- I do not know, nothing to compare with. I have two daughters. (Smiles.)
"Do you have a trust relationship with you, she shares secrets with you?"
- Arina is now at this age that everything tells. In addition to the mystery, what kind of gift they and mom prepared me for a birthday. (Laughs.)
- In her school life, are you participating at the parent meeting?
- I do not go to the meetings. But in school life, I participate, if you need some concert to spend, I am invited.
The actor has two daughters. Elders, Alice, from the second marriage, are seventeen years old. Junior, Arine, nine. Sisters good relations
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- At the lifestyle of the family, your medioity affects?
- I am not a partner in a warehouse of character, and before it did not really loved it. For me, it is better to sit in the kitchen, so that people are smaller. As Andrei Panin answered, with whom we somehow went on the train, on the offer to go to the car-restaurant: "No, conclude." It happens like that, weave. I understand that these are the costs of the profession, but if there is an opportunity to avoid excessive attention, I will use it.
- Relations with the profession - is it still love or rather a habit?
- I already ask a similar question. Acting fate develops in different ways. Someone from the first steps in the profession allows themselves to be selective, and I have grabbed everything before. And not what washed, but I already want to choose: who to work with which material. Yes, it may not work out a performance, a film, but the work itself enriches you: the people with whom he spent the days on the site, books that helped in the disclosure of the character's character, their own insights. I want to no longer jump on tops, but deeply immerse yourself in the material.
- About related spheres did not think?
- Direct? Not mine it. I can seem too rude during communication. I am intolerable to unprofessionalism, to finding. Probably it would be difficult to me, be a director. In addition, it is, without help, I can not imagine the picture. I would be better to answer my segment of the path, for my twig on this tree.