- Catherine, they say you were not going to celebrate your birthday in France?
- This is the best surprise in my life! When I saw ticket tickets, it was in mixed feelings - on the one hand I wanted to spend insanely with Andrey (Andrei Karpov's husband, the winner of last year's project "Dancing with the Stars", - Ed. WH) Weekend in our beloved city, and on the other - As I presented how many people will come to a restaurant, in which there will be no birthday girl, I already threw me in a shiver ... It's good that a caring husband decided this question and appointed a holiday a few days later. I was happy. We flew and immediately went for a walk. At the exit from the hotel, Andrei says: "Go ahead, I will now ask concierge to book us a table in the restaurant and come out for you." I stand, it means that inhale the Parisian January air, looking at the triumphal arch, how suddenly four people are collapsed on me with flowers and gifts! Forever I will remember this moment - the moment of absolute happiness, when your loved ones are thrown and do the path of thousands of kilometers to spend a few days outside of Moscow problems and fuss.
- After all, for you, Paris is not just a loved one, but a special city?
- Yes! I'm not the first time in Paris. A few years ago, Andrei made me an offer in this city, and since then every year we return here. They say that if you make a desire, standing under the Eiffel Tower, it will certainly come true. Four years ago I guess the desire to link my life with this man, and three hours after dinner in the restaurant Andrei made me a sentence. By the way, my current birthday was celebrated there. This is not an ordinary restaurant, here every waiter has an opera formation. From time to time the waiter begins to sing Aria, and the entire restaurant ships and ceases to clap appliances. It does not look like some kind of cabaret, rather it is a story, part of which you become - here's a waiter carries a bowl of onion soup, and after a moment before you is a first-class opera tenor. Before Andrei made me a proposal, several waiters who kill the beautiful Aria of Love are crowded around us. At this moment, Andrei bent something to raise something. Here singing ceases, silence silence and all the attention of the hall - on our table. I remember, I was even thinking then: "After all, the whole restaurant looks at us, what else has rolled out?" After a second, Andrei kept the ring in his hand and said: "Get out of me!" I started crying, kiss him and hug. And the restaurant is already a chorus: "What did you answer?" And I said: "Yes! Yes! Yes! I agree".
"I guess a desire for the Eiffel Tower, and it came true." Photo: Personal archive of Catherine Volkova.
"Ekaterina, this year you will celebrate four years from the day of the wedding with Andrei. For the same years you are filmed in "Voronin". Probably, with the actors colleagues, did you become friends? They came to congratulate you?
- Yes, "Voronins" became my second family. (Smiles.) Unfortunately, not everyone did come for a holiday - tour, vacation ... But some of our "family" was still gathered. Anna Frolovseva (actress, who played the mother of Kostya Voronina), Stas Madznikov (Lenya - Senior Brother of the Bone), Julia Kavarzina (Nastya - Wife Laña) saw on my holiday.
- It is clear that gifts and colors you got so much that you can't take it in your hands. And your two-year-old daughter Lizonka somehow congratulated you?
- Drew me a postcard. Every time she says what is drawn there, these are different stories, heroes and situations. (Laughs.) Obviously, with a fantasy of Chad everything is in order.
- Have you taken her with you to Paris?
- No, she stayed at her grandmother, her husband's mom.
- Katya, apparently, you did not go on maternity leave?
- As such, I did not have anything. Almost before the birth, we shot the next season, interrupted for childbirth, and already after 2 months I got into the chamber.
- How did you manage to combine the hard schedule of filming and care about the baby?
- Thanks to the producers of the series - they correctly planned a shooting day. She took with him Lisa first always. Then not so painfully parted with the baby. It was rather a test not for a child, but for me - the firstborn long-awaited. (Smiles.) All the time I wanted to be there. But it could not refuse work - I feel empty without work. Everything in life should be in harmony - and work, and personal life. And some inner state. And then everything will be obtained.
For Catherine Volkova and her husband, Paris became a special city. Photo: Personal archive of Catherine Volkovka.
- Has my husband helped you?
- Of course.
"Voronins" is one of the most popular TV series on our television, but it has been for four years. " Not tired of this project?
- I want to try myself in a new genre, but it goes in parallel the desire to continue working on the series. "Voronina" is not just a series, not another job. This is a turning project in my career. I appreciate and grateful for this role. And I will gladly respond if people are confused by my name, calling faith. (Smiles.)
- But few knows that you have your own dance school and wedding boutiques. How do you all have time?
- It is not true! Not the first time I read about it. Who are you, people who opened school and boutique under my aegid, and I don't know ... (laughs.)
- You met your personal new year. What plans did you start it?
- Save what I have. And try yourself in a new acting amplua. I hope both of these desires will come true.