"Efim Zalmanovich, at one time the audience lost a talented humorist and the narrator of the monologues of Efim Schifrin, but purchased the actor. Are you glad that such changes have occurred?
- Well, these are loud words ... (laughs.) I just have a slightly wider in the field of activity. Farmers will understand. Because when the soil is thinned and the earth is drained, you need to always take your skarb and move to another place. It seemed to me that here on this, allocated to me the plot of land, on my pop, yield, crops, continuing this metaphor, became more and more scarce. And I, without throwing this land, without coming by his attention, I just leased a few more sites. One of them was one time called Circus, another next door - a movie, the third site is called television, and the fourth - my favorite is the theater. Now another flap was added to him, which is called the Musical Theater. With these faults to live much of fun. With them, of course, it is more difficult to manage, but I approached the profession more than when she was even painted in rainbow tones or then when the first success came.
- How many performances are you busy now?
- This is the musical "times not chosen" in the Musicla Theater, there is also a musical revument "Life is beautiful", the performance in the Viktyuk Theater ... Affrial play "Laughing Flower" ... This is the last performance of Mikhal Mikhalych Kazakov, which he managed to put in Russia. There is still my pop-up program called "seifrynisms-new". Unfortunately, the three favorite players have recently designed: "Schwartsevsky" "Dragon" in Mirzoyeva's production, in His "Ivonna" in the Wakhtangov Theater, and the performance that we played with Tanya Vasilyeva, he was called "Rubber Traders". Now I still loom to the shooting about the shooting in the big series, but I still can not decide on it. In general, with my octa I treat TV shows, and agreed on them only when I was in the "invited star" for one series - Guest-Star.
Efim Siphrin was born a village of Susuman in the Magadan region. Photo: Personal archive of artist.
- Here, last year was just the series "Sklifosovsky" with your participation.
- And before that - "paths", and even earlier - the "hero of our tribe". But, soothing itself, I honestly notice that the quality of the TV shows is growing. In any case, the technical side of them. And no longer so roughly saving this eternal savings: there are funds, there are big cinema signs ... But still, our series takes off at such a short time that it scares me a little bit from which we must work.
- As a Guest-Star, you are now very often invited to the jury of various TV shows. How comfortable you are the role of such a judge when you have to evaluate it often to your colleagues?
- I myself explain it for myself by the fact that somehow the polar judgments of my colleagues. Such a person should be in the jury. I will never solve someone to humiliate or insult. Because being an actor, I understand how hard it is to participate in such projects. And I, as it were, from the inside, you always hit those who are willing to be prepared, or to settle. Maybe these invitations are also connected with the fact that I never overtake, announcing my decision. It seems to me that there are always fun in television projects. It is still television, not a trial or exam. And the elements of the show must still be present - even in the declaration of the result ...
- Your "Star Hour" was a popular TV show "Circus with the stars", where you showed what they are capable of. Did you have any skills acquired on the project?
"If I had now suggested to repeat something, I would ask just a week to enter the form and, probably, repeated almost everything that showed in 2007. Although seven years have passed. It makes one thing for me to believe in it: when Nikulin's anniversary was celebrated, I honestly thought that I would not get to smat again over the Manege ... But whether the return to the rehearsal realities, whether the atmosphere herself, which reigns in the circus on color, I gave confidence. And I repeated a very air room. As in that joke: "Do you know how to play a violin? "I don't know, I have not tried." I have a feeling that I would have managed.
Now Efim Shifrin is busy immediately in several theatrical productions. Photo: Gennady Avramenko.
- With its great employment, you are also an active user of social networks. Every day, new excerpts from interesting books and works appear on your page. Where do you find time for such work?
- I am often asked about it, and in the most interest of my readers there is always a slight distrust: they also know that I have a performance in the evening, and in the morning I only arrive in this city. At the same time, I also train in the gym. Someone immediately arises the idea of "literary blacks", or that someone helps me. But it's very easy to answer this question - I'm all the time on the road. At night - on the train, during the day - on the plane, and being in Moscow - I move on the service car, I do not drive myself. And being waiting, I never spend time looking at the stains on the ceiling, I do not part with Ipad and, being a lark, still took over the part-time and habit of owls. I sleep a little, I have enough. In general, I never thought that I could love reading from the monitor, it seemed to me that it was contraindicated to me. But now the electronic format returned me to the winding reading. I downloaded a huge number of books, and I can simultaneously read several works at once, without loading neither space or your hands. I easily learn from one book to another, the benefit of all these devices enable convenient bookmarks, selections, copying text. I do not have to reprint those fragments from the books that I give on social networks - this is done by pressing one button. I basically goes to reading and looking for illustrations. I always want to share what I learned. And when they ask: why did this suddenly be interested in the history of the Highlander or the theory of evolution - what does this attitude to your profession? I say: "So because it is interesting that it is not related to the profession. It seems to me that there were some stains in my education that life makes it possible to fix it. " And the new virtual reality just gives the opportunity to learn and learn. And it seems to me that I graduated from another secondary school, or even the institute, since I am an active user of social networks.
- At the same time, when you write your post yourself, you are noticeable with impeccable literary Russian language ...
"I write a long time ago, and I even got three books, and I want it easily read." But then there will never be anyway. I understand that since the phrase, I often do not know where to finish it, and I understand, is my literary flaw and my weakness. I do not struggle with the bulky of my proposals. But it seems to me that something about the information I managed to satisfy, does not fit in short simple phrases of telephone SMS. But here I often stumble and even suffer from the fact that a light lucavinka or irony, hidden for some high-frequency, raising, my reader without emoticons is not guessing, and suddenly begins to think that I am really someone who has becknowledged a person in this time from the past century, or tightened on all dandy buttons. But it always seemed to me so obvious: for the deliberate calibration of words hides and mockery over her ...
Efim Shifrin. Photo: Gennady Avramenko.
- For social network users, you will be Schifrin. Who calls you this name in life?
- Always called dad in letters - and Nohimka, and Nohimka with an emphasis on the first syllable and fuck. I am so accustomed to the two of my current names and did not even think that by registering under my passport name in social networks, we will have such a cross in society. Although it is quite explained: if the audience got used to me how to Efima, it was possible to assume that they would immediately decide that I could or changed my name, or something was burned from people. It was necessary to somehow officially declare that I always lived and under the name, and under it. After all, rare Anna comes up with the fact that it is for someone's nura. I know many Sasha, who do not like when they are called shurids. But I'm used to from childhood that I and Fima, and Efim, and fuck at the same time. And in childhood I obviously felt a sign of equality between these all names. And on the stage, of course: once you were told to this name in the billboard, or to the credits, and it went. And you didn't even notice how 30 years flying were elder, during which you were all the time with Efim. But it seemed to me that somewhere I should be under the name I registered my parents. I bring an example: Nonna Viktorovna Mordyukova in the documents was November. But no one has never called her November - Nonna and Nonna. And I - fuck, and was fucking, and there is a fuck. And who calls? Now many are now.
- By the way, the parents who were called you so, for a long time wanted to see their son journalist. And now you are writing. Why did they see you in this profession?
- Probably, in my biography, my parents felt that the profession of the artist fell out of the category of serious, those that give the soil under their feet. They had to survive. And the Father in the camp, and mom, who came to him after the war. By the way, they did not object to my choice. There was no such thing so that they stood up, and they said: "Never." Simply before my success and the first of my appearance on the air, and already with my first tourists in Riga, they always doubtedly doubted my choice, although they knew from childhood that I didn't want anything other than this.
- You left the parents early, in 19 years. It was hard to start an independent life in Moscow?
- Well, this is not the times when Gorky went to people. I came to Moscow in Soviet years, when no matter how talked about the time, it was difficult to disappear. Still, familiar with whom the applicant immediately turned up in Moscow, relatives who flooded on the genealogical branches of the family tree, who, at the time of study, you had acquired, gave a feeling of some kind of protection. I am not what they were thrown into an unfamiliar country to eat the natives, I was surrounded by compatriots, and whatever we paint didn't paint the Soviet time, but if a person did not oppose the regime, he did not choose the path of struggle at once - how he could guess ? I do not remember such destinies so that despair so that the people will completely comply with people if you are not immediately recorded in the dissidents. In addition, I was born in a thawed era, where against the background of the cruelty of the Stalinist pore, everything seemed to be a sanatorium. Now we remember the fate of Brodsky. But then the then settlements are difficult to call the cortica. It's just a shame that a good poet so I started my life in poetry from exploring the zone.
"I continue to fight with stress or depressed with a glass or falling out of life, and coming only an hour per day in the gym." Photo: Personal archive of Efim Shifrin.
- In the native settlement of Susuman in the Magadan region you are?
- No longer was, but in general there were twice there. I tell a lot about it, because I was convinced - the saying that it was impossible to join the same river twice, not quite correct. I joined the river in which nothing left to reverse. Which did not change his current. Many villages on Kolyma demolished, part of them burned down. But after 25 years later, I was again in the village, which I saw many times in a dream, and waking up, I was surprised, what the water turned out to be in it ...
- At what stage are your bodybuilding classes now?
- I still don't call it sport or boding, although the classes with burdens lead to a change in the figure and it would be quite possible to call this overseas word. But I still do not put my goals to draw on some competitions or go to class veterans of this sport. My workouts still do not go beyond amateur, but I really like to feel the results of these lessons. I like that I do in my years to do with the loads that profession gives me, I can wear the same costumes that put on the performances five years ago. What I continue to fight with stress or with depression, not with the help of a glass or falling out of life, but coming only an hour per day in the gym.
- What weight take?
- I have long been trying not to try to find out what kind of peak weight, and what a worker. In general, I do not go to records. But just yesterday I gave meter in the first approach to ten times. True, in the second approach I was enough for six repetitions.
- Do you live with such a philosophical look at life, from where you draw the vital wisdom?
- About wisdom - it was you crap, I do not feel wisely. Just life experience armed me by some knowledge. I understand that in this life you can only count on what you did. And I am not much different from those who are considered by lucky people. I know that luck turned to me only when I worked a lot before that. And I think that this is only my simple everyday philosophy.