Dance of Paulina Andreeva at the concert of Danila Kozlovsky. Danila Kozlovsky: “Paulina is one of those rare people with whom you can be yourself

- Danila, Paulina, how would you characterize each other using three epithets?

Danila: (Pause.) Real. Very beautiful. Funny. Often laughs at himself. You rarely see this combination. Your turn! In the meantime, I’ll turn on the camera so that I can show you the recording at the right time! (Laughs.)

Pauline: Crazy. Very beautiful. Responsive. What does not happen so often when, with such demand and popularity, first places in various ratings, a person manages to remain a person. The task is the most important and difficult to achieve. I'm glad Daniel is doing it. Otherwise, I would not be friends with him ...

- I wonder how many readers, looking at this cover, will think that you are a couple?

Danila: Paulina and I have been friends for five years, we were introduced by a mutual friend, Philip Olegovich Yankovsky. Fields is one of those few people with whom you can be yourself. That is, next to her, I can be anything and feel free at the same time.

Pauline: We don't need to explain to each other what the point of the joke is.

Danila: Yes! Conventionally, even if one of us joked unfunny, we will laugh at how unfunny he joked.

Being friends and working together is not the same thing...

Danila: We are comfortable with both. Therefore, when the need arose for an actress who was supposed to play a non-main, but important role in the film Status: Free, I offered to invite it. My hero Nikita goes through all the trials associated with parting with his girlfriend, and according to the laws of the genre, he should be rewarded at the end. We are not talking about a happy ending, we do not know what will happen next, but after all the adventures in his life, an important meeting takes place - a new person appears. It was necessary that an actress be in the frame, in whose energy and charm you instantly believe, so that the viewer, looking at my hero at that moment, said: “Wow, I want to be in his place!” I called Paulina and asked to read the script. Still, the role is small, our budget, again, is modest - there were many doubts whether she would agree ... But Polya called me back the next day and said that she was with us.

Pauline: Everything was wrong! In fact, we met at some catering, and he turned to me with a formal intonation in his voice: “Paulina, you see, we have such a story, and I would like to offer you a small role. I will send the script ... "To which I replied:" Danila, I agree to act without reading it.

Danila: I invited Paulina to the film “Status: Single”. It was necessary that an actress be in the frame, in whose energy and charm you instantly believe. Photo: Andrey Fedechko

- Paulina, I just want to ask: a role with words?

Pauline: Yes! (Laughs.) Although it’s a small one, two scenes ... This is also a friendly gesture on my part, because the film Status: Single is Danila’s production debut and, if I call myself his friend, I was glad to support him. The same applied to Dani's offer to appear on the cover of TV WEEK. He called and asked in a matter-of-fact way if I would be honored to be on the cover with him. To which I replied that if he doesn’t mind being next to me ... (Both laugh.) In fact, it coincided so well that Danya rehearsed Hamlet in St. Petersburg (we are talking about the performance of the Maly Drama Theater - the Theater of Europe. - Approx. " TN”), I also came to my hometown, so I managed to combine everything.

- And they say that acting friendship does not exist ...

Paulina: It's really rare between actresses. And friendship between a man and a woman is wonderful. Because we initially have nothing to share, we have no competition. I can only sincerely rejoice at Dani's success. to me

I like Danila's work in the theater, I love him in the play "The Cherry Orchard" - he is an enchanting Lopakhin. And I know people who were skeptical of him, looking for some flaws, and then came to the theater and were disarmed by what they saw on stage.

Danila: And I recently watched several episodes of the TV movie "Method", where I played such a big and beloved artist as. So Paulina, paired with him, is absolutely equivalent and complete. I love her small but absolutely wonderful role in The Thaw! When Polya and I were in New York (we studied English at the same language school), she put me to listen to the song “Oh, how I was in love, my friend, and now what ...”, which she recorded for the film by Valery Todorovsky. I think I was one of the first people you gave it to listen to...

Pauline: Yes, that is right.

Danila: And this is a year, if not more, before the premiere of The Thaw! By the way, the case took place in Central Park, where the police took us an hour later - for drinking alcohol in a public place. But the most important thing is that when I heard this song, I immediately understood: I have a hit in front of me. It was somehow quite obvious. I say: “This is so cool! Did you sleep? “Yes, but what is it?” Now Paulina will say that she has an episodic role in The Thaw, but the main thing is that she is memorable and very bright. And I say all this not because Polya is my friend, but because she is a very good actress.

Paulina: Friendship between actresses is a rarity. And friendship between a man and a woman is wonderful. We have nothing to share, we have no competition. I can only sincerely rejoice at Dani's success. Photo: Andrey Fedechko

- Danila, have you watched the erotic thriller "Locust" with Paulina?

Danila: I will say that I admire my colleagues and friends, that is, Paulina and Petya Fedorov, who played the main roles there. I admire their courage. But first of all, it was Paulina, because it is still easier for a man to act in such films. For a young actress to play in an erotic thriller in Russia is a huge courage and responsibility. Because for our country this genre is generally atypical, we have a rather sanctimonious country in this sense.

Pauline: It seems that we still don’t have sex, and storks bring children ...

Danila: Yes, this genre is by definition wary. But it can be very interesting, sensual

story. I saw individual shots - very beautiful. But I didn't watch the whole movie.

Pauline: Why?!

Danila: Unfortunately, there was no time. The whole of December there were rehearsals of Hamlet, then the premiere of our film in Ireland, from today it is being shown all over Russia. Now I remember how Paulina saw our film for the first time. I called her and offered to go to the cinema ... (Laughs.)

Pauline: I ask: "Did you find something good in the poster?" He says, "Yes, you won't regret it."

Danila: And then Polya began to clarify: “Which cinema are you taking me to? Have we been there? I took her to a recording studio near the Kursk railway station. Having entered there, Polya saw Natasha Anisimova, a wonderful actress, who also starred in our film, sound engineers, then director Pasha Ruminov joined ...

Pauline: And we looked at the mounted "Status: Free". Danya was sitting serious all the time, making notes in a notebook all the time, and all I needed was popcorn to complete the picture. No nonsense, I really enjoyed the movie. And I applaud Danila's courage, his production debut. He does not wait for ideal offers, although he has many of them, but chooses what he is really interested in, creates projects himself, builds his career.

- Danila, the film begins with the heroine of Elizaveta Boyarskaya leaving your character for another man. Someone will think: “They don’t leave such people, it doesn’t happen like that.” Did the story draw you in?

Danila: Theme. In principle, we have few films about parting. And here the picture really begins with this: my hero Nikita is abandoned by a girl, and he begins to fight for her, he does not agree to let her go to another. There is a lot of funny, ridiculous, sad, charming, touching in this story. I haven’t played this yet: the project interested me both as an actor and as a producer. The background is as follows: director Pasha Ruminov, when we were preparing for a completely different film, talked about how he broke up with a girl, how he wrote down everything that happened to him at that moment in a notebook ... Listening to him, I somehow

I immediately realized that it can be transferred to the screen, that this is a separate movie. For some reason, that other project did not work out, but “Status: Free” appeared. It immediately became obvious that the main role, the role of Athena, should be played by Liza Boyarskaya. I sent her the script, after reading which she wrote: “You know, I understand why you sent it to me. Because there are stories that can only be told with people with whom a certain period of life has passed. Liza and I have really known each other for a long time, from the first year, we, again, do not need to explain any things to each other, we play on stage together ... Liza is my very close friend.

Pauline: So the title for the material is ready: "Danya and his girlfriends"!

Danila: the topic of parting is painful, sad, but also very important. There comes a time when you need to be able to let go of the other person. Photo: Andrey Fedechko

Danila: Yes, I'm well settled, I'm surrounded by such people! (Laughs.) Of course, the topic of parting is painful, sad, but also very important, because the time comes when you need to be able to let go of another person. There is a wonderful line in the film when Lisa says to my character: “I am not a respirator, breathe now without me, breathe on your own!” It's sad, but you need to go through this, you need to understand that the relationship has become obsolete, over. You can’t be selfish and consider another property ... There is another good phrase, albeit rude, that her new man says to my hero: “Well

and love each other, but you don’t get a dick.” The relationship is over, but you can still be friends. Of course, breaking up is always hard. It hurts when they leave you, but it hurts just as much when you leave.

Pauline: Agree. If they leave you, of course, we are also talking about wounded pride, but only it cannot come to the fore when people were connected by a real feeling, kinship. Here the pain is of a different nature, people write books about it, compose poems.

Paulina: when they leave you, of course, we are talking about wounded pride, but only it cannot come to the fore if people were connected by a real feeling that we call love. Photo: Andrey Fedechko

- Parting with the city can also be painful in its own way. It turns out interesting: Danila was born in Moscow, but then moved with his family to St. Petersburg, studied there, now plays in the theater with Lev Dodin. You, Paulina, on the contrary, left for Moscow from St. Petersburg ...

Paulina: I was driven from St. Petersburg to Moscow by the desire to get out of my usual comfort zone. Prior to that, I studied journalism in my native St. Petersburg for two years. But I quickly realized that I was not doing my job, melancholy began to eat me ... I arrived in the capital aimed at victory. Even though I didn't know the city. We went on some excursions to Moscow, but this is completely different. Parents, of course, knew about my admission, it was not an escape from home. Moscow drove me crazy and delighted. A huge number of people, a seething subway - I seemed to have plunged into the abyss. There was also a feeling of more aggressive energy. But I was also quite aggressive, because I had a clear goal. I can’t say that Moscow hurt me or tested me for strength. I was immediately lucky to meet people who helped with important advice. Moscow has taken me enough

friendly. I dreamed of entering the Moscow Art Theater School and entered there, I dreamed of working at the Moscow Art Theater, and this dream also came true.

And St. Petersburg is still my energy base, a place of power - the best city on earth. Every time I come here, the first thing I do is visit my family: parents, grandparents. I go by train. “Peregrine Falcon” is rather a forced measure, I love the nightly “Red Arrow” - with tea, a rattling glass holder ... In St. Petersburg, I do not function as an actress. Here I am a daughter, sister, granddaughter, friend.

- Paulina, Danila has repeatedly said that the most important person in his life is his mother. Who in your family had a particularly strong influence on you?

Paulina: The whole family. It would be dishonest of me to single out one person.

I am the oldest, I have two brothers. But I'm the only girl, so I probably felt more attention to myself. My parents are young and they are my best friends. Mom and dad instilled in me the freedom of choice and always repeated that I would succeed. I still feel this support to this day.

At school, I was a twin. Well, triplets! Because she always misbehaved: a typical restless, overly active child. Parents repeated every time: “Well, what is it, it’s embarrassing to go to the parent meeting again!” But there was never any repression or pressure on this issue. I studied additionally with teachers in order to improve problematic subjects, but I liked to recite: “Your physics is not interesting to me, I am a humanist!” (Laughs.)

Danila: we have few films about parting. And here the picture begins with this: my hero is thrown by a girl, and he begins to fight for her. Photo: Leopolis Film Company

- Paulina, when did you realize that you were good-looking?

Paulina: Never seriously thought about it. In adolescence, I had a rejection of myself: I could not agree with this world, everything rebelled in me, it seemed that everyone around was lying. I looked almost like a tomboy: sneakers, a hobby for a skateboard, sharp manners ... I began to accept and understand myself only when I became a student at the Studio School. But this path of knowledge continues to this day.

Danila: Look at her: Paulina is one of the most beautiful women in our country! And believe me, when I say "beautiful", I'm not just talking about looks.

- Is that why you invited Paulina to your concert program "The Big Dream of an Ordinary Man"? By the way, why is Paulina dancing there and not singing?

Paulina: Because there is one main character.

Danila: Let me explain: "The Big Dream of an Ordinary Man" is not a concert, it is a musical performance. history of man,

who declares his love for the era of the 1940-50s, the music that was performed by my beloved and respected Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett. And Paulina, of course, fits perfectly into the style of that time and the dramaturgy of my performance, in which I share my feelings and emotions.

When I asked Paula to support me in this crazy adventure with the music program, she immediately responded. I remember very well our rehearsals at Mosfilm in early April. At some point, we opened the huge gates of the pavilion, turned on the music to the fullest and started dancing right on the street ...

Paulina: I applaud Danila's courage. He does not wait for ideal offers, but chooses what he is really interested in, creates projects himself, builds his career. Photo: Andrey Fedechko

- Danila, returning to the film "Status: Free" ... What is your status now - free, in a relationship, in search? Underline whatever applicable.

Danila: I have a wonderful girlfriend. And I will say nothing more.

Danila Kozlovsky

A family: mother - Nadezhda Nikolaevna, actress; father - Valery Ivanovich, professor at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography; brothers - Egor (32 years old), Ivan (29 years old)

Education: graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts

Career: He made his film debut at the age of 13 in the TV series Simple Truths. He starred in more than 30 films, including: "Garpastum", "Merry Men", "Five Brides", "Legend No. 17", "Duhless", "Vampire Academy", "The Habit of Parting", "Dubrovsky", "Status: Free." Actor of the St. Petersburg Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe

Paulina Andreeva

A family: mother - Elena Nikolaevna, businesswoman; father - Oleg Vladimirovich, businessman; brothers - Igor (20 years old), Boris (15 years old)

Education: graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School

Career: starred in films and TV series: "Thaw", "Dark World: Equilibrium", "Gregory R.", "Method", "Locust", "Status: Free". Actress of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov

Danila Kozlovsky

A family: mother - Nadezhda Nikolaevna, actress; father - Valery Ivanovich, professor at the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography; brothers - Egor (32 years old), Ivan (29 years old)

Education: graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts

Paulina Andreeva

A family: mother - Elena Nikolaevna, businesswoman; father - Oleg Vladimirovich, businessman; brothers - Igor (20 years old), Boris (15 years old)

Education: graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School

Career: starred in films and TV series: "Thaw", "Dark World: Equilibrium", "Gregory R.", "Method", "Locust", "Status: Free". Actress of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov

- Danila, Paulina, how would you characterize each other using three epithets?

Danila:(Pause.) Real. Very beautiful. Funny. Often laughs at himself. You rarely see this combination. Your turn! In the meantime, I’ll turn on the camera so that I can show you the recording at the right time! (Laughs.)

- I wonder how many readers, looking at this cover, will think that you are a couple?

Danila: Paulina and I have been friends for five years, we were introduced by a mutual friend, Philip Olegovich Yankovsky. Fields is one of those few people with whom you can be yourself. That is, next to her, I can be anything and feel free at the same time.

Pauline: We don't need to explain to each other what the point of the joke is.

Danila: Yes! Conventionally, even if one of us joked unfunny, we will laugh at how unfunny he joked.

Being friends and working together is not the same thing...

Danila: We are comfortable with both. Therefore, when the need arose for an actress who was supposed to play an important, but not the main role in the film Status: Free, I suggested that Paulina Andreeva be invited. My hero Nikita goes through all the trials associated with parting with his girlfriend, and according to the laws of the genre, he should be rewarded at the end. We are not talking about a happy ending, we do not know what will happen next, but after all the adventures in his life, an important meeting takes place - a new person appears. It was necessary that an actress be in the frame, in whose energy and charm you instantly believe, so that the viewer, looking at my hero at that moment, said: “Wow, I want to be in his place!” I called Paulina and asked to read the script. Still, the role is small, our budget, again, is modest - there were many doubts whether she would agree ... But Polya called me back the next day and said that she was with us.

Pauline: Everything was wrong! In fact, we met Danila Kozlovsky in some catering, and he turned to me with an official intonation in his voice: “Paulina, you see, we have such a story, and I would like to offer you a small role. I will send the script ... "To which I replied:" Danila, I agree to act without reading it.

- Paulina, I just want to ask: a role with words?

Pauline: Yes! (Laughs.) Although it’s a small one, two scenes ... This is also a friendly gesture on my part, because the film Status: Single is Danila’s production debut and, if I call myself his friend, I was glad to support him. The same applied to Dani's offer to appear on the cover of TV WEEK. He called and asked in a matter-of-fact way if I would be honored to be on the cover with him. To which I replied that if he doesn’t mind being next to me ... (Both laugh.) In fact, it coincided so well that Danya rehearsed Hamlet in St. Petersburg (we are talking about the performance of the Maly Drama Theater - the Theater of Europe. - Approx. " TN”), I also came to my hometown, so I managed to combine everything.

- And they say that acting friendship does not exist ...

Pauline: Between actresses, this is really a rarity. And friendship between a man and a woman is wonderful. Because we initially have nothing to share, we have no competition. I can only sincerely rejoice at Dani's success. I like Danila's work in the theater, I love him in the play "The Cherry Orchard" - he is enchanting Lopakhin. And I know people who were skeptical of him, looking for some flaws, and then came to the theater and were disarmed by what they saw on stage.

Danila: And I recently watched several episodes of the TV movie "Method", where I played such a great and beloved artist as Konstantin Yuryevich Khabensky. So Paulina, paired with him, is absolutely equivalent and complete. I love her small but absolutely wonderful role in The Thaw! When Polya and I were in New York (we studied English at the same language school), she put me to listen to the song “Oh, how I was in love, my friend, and now what ...”, which she recorded for the film by Valery Todorovsky. I think I was one of the first people you gave it to listen to...

Pauline: Yes, that is right.

- Danila, have you watched the erotic thriller "Locust" with Paulina?

Danila: I will say that I admire my colleagues and friends, that is, Paulina and Petya Fedorov, who played the main roles there. I admire their courage. But first of all, it was Paulina, because it is still easier for a man to act in such films. For a young actress to play in an erotic thriller in Russia is a huge courage and responsibility. Because for our country this genre is generally atypical, we have a rather sanctimonious country in this sense.

Pauline: It seems that we still don’t have sex, and storks bring children ...

Danila: Yes, this genre is by definition wary. But it can be a very interesting, sensual story. I saw individual shots - very beautiful. But I didn't watch the whole movie.

Pauline: Why?!

Pauline: I ask: "Did you find something good in the poster?" He says, "Yes, you won't regret it."

Danila: theme. In principle, we have few films about parting. And here the picture really begins with this: my hero Nikita is abandoned by a girl, and he begins to fight for her, he does not agree to let her go to another. There is a lot of funny, ridiculous, sad, charming, touching in this story. I haven’t played this yet: the project interested me both as an actor and as a producer. The background is as follows: director Pasha Ruminov, when we were preparing for a completely different film, talked about how he broke up with a girl, how he wrote down everything that happened to him at that moment in a notebook ... Listening to him, I somehow immediately I realized that it can be transferred to the screen, that this is a separate movie. For some reason, that other project did not work out, but “Status: Free” appeared. It immediately became obvious that the main role, the role of Athena, should be played by Liza Boyarskaya. I sent her the script, after reading which she wrote: “You know, I understand why you sent it to me. Because there are stories that can only be told with people with whom a certain period of life has passed. Liza and I have really known each other for a long time, from the first year, we, again, do not need to explain any things to each other, we play on stage together ... Liza is my very close friend.

Pauline: So the title for the material is ready: "Danya and his girlfriends"!

Danila: Yes, I'm well settled, I'm surrounded by such people! (Laughs.) Of course, the topic of parting is painful, sad, but also very important, because the time comes when you need to be able to let go of another person. There is a wonderful line in the film when Lisa says to my character: “I am not a respirator, breathe now without me, breathe on your own!” It's sad, but you need to go through this, you need to understand that the relationship has become obsolete, over. You can’t be selfish and consider another property ... There is another good phrase, albeit rude, that her new man says to my hero: “Well, love each other, but don’t get your dick.” The relationship is over, but you can still be friends. Of course, breaking up is always hard. It hurts when they leave you, but it hurts just as much when you leave.

Pauline: I was driven from St. Petersburg to Moscow by the desire to get out of my usual comfort zone. Prior to that, I studied journalism in my native St. Petersburg for two years. But I quickly realized that I was not doing my job, melancholy began to eat me ... I arrived in the capital aimed at victory. Even though I didn't know the city. We went on some excursions to Moscow, but this is completely different. Parents, of course, knew about my admission, it was not an escape from home. Moscow drove me crazy and delighted. A huge number of people, a seething subway - I seemed to have plunged into the abyss. There was also a feeling of more aggressive energy. But I was also quite aggressive, because I had a clear goal. I can’t say that Moscow hurt me or tested me for strength. I was immediately lucky to meet people who helped with important advice. Moscow received me quite friendly. I dreamed of entering the Moscow Art Theater School and entered there, I dreamed of working at the Moscow Art Theater, and this dream also came true.

- Paulina, Danila has repeatedly said that the most important person in his life is his mother. Who in your family had a particularly strong influence on you?

Pauline: The whole family. It would be dishonest of me to single out one person.

- Paulina, when did you realize that you were good-looking?

Pauline: Never seriously thought about it. In adolescence, I had a rejection of myself: I could not agree with this world, everything rebelled in me, it seemed that everyone around was lying. I looked almost like a tomboy: sneakers, a hobby for a skateboard, sharp manners ... I began to accept and understand myself only when I became a student at the Studio School. But this path of knowledge continues to this day.

Danila: Look at her: Paulina is one of the most beautiful women in our country! And believe me, when I say "beautiful", I'm not just talking about looks.

- Is that why you invited Paulina to your concert program "The Big Dream of an Ordinary Man"? By the way, why is Paulina dancing there and not singing?

Pauline: Because there is only one main character.

Danila: Let me explain: "The Big Dream of an Ordinary Man" is not a concert, it is a musical performance. The story of a man who declares his love for the era of the 1940s and 50s, the music that was performed by my beloved and respected Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett. And Paulina, of course, fits perfectly into the style of that time and the dramaturgy of my performance, in which I share my feelings and emotions.

- Danila, returning to the film "Status: Free" ... What is your status now - free, in a relationship, in search? Underline whatever applicable.

Danila: I have a wonderful girlfriend. And I will say nothing more.