Anna Banshchikova: “Viewers are asking for a continuation of Bloodhound. Anna Banshchikova: the role of wife comes last for me

Filming began for the third season of the series “Bhound” and the leading actress, Anna Banshchikova, went to Gelendzhik with her seven-month-old daughter Masha. The girls will be separated from the rest of the family for several months.

- It’s good in Gelendzhik, the child breathes sea air. When they started filming the second season, Masha was... one month old! It's already seven o'clock. Due to the fact that the lead actress unexpectedly became pregnant and was about to give birth, it was impossible to change her work schedule. The producers of “The Bloodhound,” of course, discussed the possibility of postponing the start of filming, but... According to the script, it’s summer, which means it needs to be filmed in the warm season and not in a year or five, otherwise what kind of continuation of the series is this? In general, there was nowhere to retreat; we were delayed with the second season by only a couple of weeks, and started work not at the end of March, but in April. They filmed quickly, vividly, easily, practically in one take. The second season ended even faster than planned. In the spring, I was going to feed Masha between scenes, I agreed on this with the producers, but in our frantic regime it is impossible to drag her to the set. I was working, the nanny was walking with Masha along the seashore. She fed only during lunch and at night. Due to the eternal lack of sleep, you arrive at the set tired, but the command of director Dmitry Brusnikin sounds: “Motor!”, and that’s all - both energy and eyes are burning.

- Anya, I can’t help but ask, what is it like to become a mother again at 42 years old?

This is a gift, God's gift. I dreamed of a third child, but I was afraid to make the decision; everything happened by itself.

Is your fear related to your profession? Were you afraid of falling out of the picture and gaining too much weight? Or is it simply impossible to cope with three children?

I’m not the kind of person who is afraid of extra pounds and somehow not looking right, I don’t care about that. I was basically afraid. The sons were born one after another, with an interval of two years. I felt like I was always giving birth, feeding, giving birth, feeding. And although she never sat at home, but acted, even when they were both very small, she still spent many years in all this.

While you are filming in the south, the older children remain in Moscow - both in the spring and now. How do you cope with being separated from them?

You can rely on my husband, I’m not worried about this at all, the children and dad are fine. I guess that in my absence, my sons and dad will relax a lot... (Laughs.) I feel like a dispatcher at a nuclear power plant: I need all day long keep your finger on the pulse of the family. I miss my sons a lot. In the summer, during the holidays, they flew to me, but now it won’t work that way. Has begun academic year, the boys moved to new school, and this is a huge stress, I don’t even know for whom it is more - for the children or for the parents. All new! Teachers, students, their parents, clubs, sections! And I need to have time to figure all this out.

- By the way, how do they like their mother’s? new role? Have you seen "Bhound"?

Children adore this series, they fell in love with my Alexandra Kushnir. Probably because she is fair, somewhat unexpected, loves to eat sweets and is generally cool. Children cannot be fooled, and adults too: everyone likes “Snoop,” which means our work is not in vain.

- If I ask you to continue the phrase about yourself: “Anya Banshchikova is...”

Oh... Difficult question. I can’t live without work and I’m a crazy mother. So anxious, restless... If there is a break in work, I become unbearable and throw out my frantic energy on my family, I am a terrible controller, I delve into their every move, and this, of course, is stressful. And then the sons and husband ask in unison: “When will you finally go to work, Mom?”

- What is your role as a wife?

At the very last. As a wife, I don’t do anything at all: I don’t bake pies, I don’t do laundry, I don’t iron shirts, I don’t feed breakfast.

In terms of comfort, it’s not very good for me. But, it seems to me, men do this deliberately, because the main thing is different. My husband respects me, you won’t get bored with me. It seems to me that men are more attracted to how interesting it is to be with a woman.

On March 30, Seva and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Time flew by so quickly... The two of us came to the registry office and signed. Soon Misha was born... We celebrated modestly and had dinner with close friends. Kostya Khabensky was there, we have been friends since our student days, his first wife Nastya was alive... Another friend who also celebrated with us is no longer there. Time flew by quickly...

- The wedding was not celebrated magnificently, because in principle it was against it?

I hate all this vulgarity: limousines, baby dolls. And in general I don’t like weddings. (Laughs.) My first wedding was like that - rock and roll (Anna’s first husband is musician Maxim Leonidov. - TN note).

- The love story with Seva came out quickly or did you look at each other for a long time?

Everything developed very quickly. Alena Babenko and I went to the premiere of a film, and then to an after-party in a restaurant. There I accidentally saw Seva, he flew in from America for a few days. I heard him speak beautifully in the language of Shakespeare. We got into conversation by chance, he didn’t know any of our actors and neither did he know that I was an actress. Although it later turned out that the series “Named Baron” was shown in America, I was so young and pretty there. It turns out he noticed me then. But when I met her, I didn’t recognize her - time had passed, apparently she was no longer so beautiful. (Laughs.)

And everything began to spin, began to spin, and soon you began to live together. Remembering that intensity of passion, what can you say about love ten years later?

Love is such a thing... It's like a good movie with a sequel. The second part may not be as captivating as the first. Feelings change, are reborn. So are the people themselves. At forty we are not the same as at twenty. Other interests, other priorities. But my husband and I are closer now than ever.

With sons Mikhail and Alexander and daughter Maria

No, I don’t wear makeup at all in my life, I don’t waste time on it. When we go to visit, my husband says: “Please put on a little makeup.” - “No, I will do it only for money.” (Laughs.) And I walk in jeans, a T-shirt, and sneakers. I can be nominated for the title of the most anti-glamorous artist. I don’t like going on the red carpet, I don’t know how to pose at all, it seems awkward to me. St. Petersburg upbringing is pressing.

- How to stimulate and intrigue your husband so that he doesn’t turn his head around?

This is such bullshit! You can even attach size 5 silicone breasts to your forehead and... languish from loneliness. I know that he loves me no matter how tired and sick I am. When I was young, I dressed up and wore heels even to the beach. How can young people express themselves?

- Did you literally go to the beach in heels?

Oh, yes! Everywhere and everywhere! So sexy! Now it’s even scary to remember: was it really me?! (Laughs.) Everything has its time.

- How do you tend to perceive failures? For example, is divorce a failure?

Sometimes it's luck. I’m generally a positive person, I see a plus sign, not a minus, I never take offense at anyone, I just don’t know how to do it. While I’m yelling at someone, for example, at our nanny, I already want to make peace with her. (Laughs.) She is offended, and I say: “Wait, I’m loving.” Better the truth speaking directly rather than hissing behind your back.

My husband and I often yell at each other. (Laughs.) In general, our family is very cheerful. But I don’t take it out on my children, because they are not to blame for my fatigue, problems and other “joys” adult life. If you are dissatisfied with something, I can strictly say that this is enough.

Anya, I see that you are a kind person. I heard a story about how they gave their hard-earned 10 thousand dollars to the first person they met for their supposedly sick mother.

The man said that the situation was stalemate, there was no one to help, I decided that he needed money more. I believe everyone and constantly fall for some strange people. IN Lately I often remember the phrase of one of the greats: “The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs.”

- By the way! Did you pick up the puppy that recently moved into your home on the street?

So what to do? The dog almost threw himself under the wheels of the car. How could you not take it?

- There is less than two years difference between your sons. They are alike?

Generally different. I can’t tear the bear away from the books, I say: “Get some rest, don’t read so much, you’ll damage your eyesight!” He doesn’t listen, he buries himself in the book again. Nobody believes me when I tell this, but it's true. He is a hundred times more erudite than me; he never leaves museums. And every weekend he takes us all there. And to be honest, I’m not such a fan - after an hour I’m already blown away, Sasha and I are moulting, and dad goes all the way with Misha. When Manya grows up, we will go shopping with her. (Laughs.) It’s a different story with Sasha: he can easily live without books and museums. Sasha likes something completely different. In the summer I sat glued to the set of “Bhound”, even starred in an episode and received my first fee.

Children are different in other ways. If you can always agree on everything with Sanko, then Mishka is stubborn. I’m not white and fluffy, it’s very difficult to convince me, but I couldn’t even imagine that a child could be more stubborn than me!

Anya, somehow you got out of fashion! The names of the children were not flowery - Alexander, Maria, Mikhail. The trend is for more complex names.

No, we are simple people. Why do we need all this?

- What family are you from?

I was raised by two Polinas - my mother, Polina Mikhailovna, and my grandmother, Polina Borisovna. My parents divorced when I was still little. My father has a different family. Nothing was forbidden to me, nothing was imposed on me, I was not scolded or punished. But I didn’t really do anything like that. More precisely, she did what she wanted, but nothing dangerous. My mother loved me very much and that’s all. We have always been friends with her. She was calm about my studies and did not force me to do well.

But, really, she struggled with me in math. My mother is a design engineer by profession and is good at mathematics. While Polina Mikhailovna was trying to explain the equations to Anya, she was thinking about the guys. (With a laugh.) When my mother realized that everything was useless, she simply solved problems for me.

- Who inspired you to become an artist? Or could you not imagine yourself without it?

Grandma insisted. Polina Borisovna Banshchikova was a prima singer at the Leningrad Musical Comedy Theater. And it’s good that she insisted, otherwise I don’t know what I would have done. I was shy and uptight. And at the age of 17, when I graduated from school, I didn’t understand what I really wanted.

- But at least you liked studying?

Of course, in theater institute learning is more fun than at a technical university. I remember how I did it. People came to our LGITMiK from distant corners of the country, they were charged with conquering the world. Not like us, from St. Petersburg. Of course, shy Leningrad girls and relaxed girls from Khabarovsk are differently charged particles, how can we compete with them. But the master of the course, Dmitry Khananovich Astrakhan, repeated that we are the coolest, we are all different. And he said that he would teach acting profession impossible. You either have talent or you don't.

We received our diplomas in the mid-1990s, it was a difficult time, many of our boys left the profession to earn money. I traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow for filming, returned, played in the theater. She lived in her friends' apartments.

Alena Babenko, Regina Myannik, Dina Korzun, thank you! We were having a great time. I’m now thinking: how is it, having a family, to shelter someone in your apartment? When I was young, everything was possible. In general, it was cool, we were absolutely free. And fearless: and without money, and the sea is knee-deep - it doesn’t matter.

And then I left for Moscow for good, because I am an active person: I need to move somewhere all the time, I can’t if nothing happens.

- It turns out, Anya, you, like many, are familiar with lack of money?

Everyone thought I was rich, even when my mother and I lived paycheck to paycheck. And everyone still thinks: everything is cool with her, and her husband is an oligarch! I just treat money very lightly, and my Sevka is the same. We travel a lot and love to eat delicious food. And we live every day like it’s our last.

Something else is valuable. Mom scolds me for keeping, from her point of view, various rubbish. All sorts of different drawings, I put the children’s notes in special folders. This is not sentimentality, but fear that time is passing quickly and nothing remains. In the hustle and bustle that we live, this is important. I have nothing left from my childhood. No toys, no drawings, no poems that I wrote.

Why do I so dislike going out somewhere in the evenings and hanging out at various premieres? Because I want to be with the children. Soon they won't need us. Why waste money on meaningless pseudo-communication?

- You have an extensive filmography, are you satisfied with how your acting career turned out?

I was lucky with my partners: I starred with Banionis, and with Mashkov, and with Mironov... And the roles were different. From the director of a vegetable warehouse to the wife of Marshal Zhukov. But I am a dissatisfied, reflective, doubting person. Interesting work is never enough, you want more and more.

- IN character roles actresses often appear ugly on screen. Does this upset you?

God forbid! I treat myself with humor and perceive myself in any form. I’m not going to take “youth injections.” I hope no one will see Banshchikova changed beyond recognition. “Don’t touch my wrinkles, they’re too hard!” - said the great Anna Magnani. I had a stormy youth, I didn’t miss anything in this life. And I can allow myself to be who I am at 42 years old.

ANNA BANSHIKOVA

Education: graduated from LGITMiK

Family: husband - Vsevolod Shakhanov, lawyer; sons - Mikhail (10 years old), Alexander (8 years old); daughter - Maria (7 months)

Career: starred in more than 80 films and TV series, including: “Piranha Hunting”, “Sonka - Golden Hand”, “Zhukov”, “Thirst”, “Wings”, etc.

Photo by Lyuba SHEMETOVA

— Since we met literally an hour and a half before your performance at the Sovremennik Theater, tell us at what moment you managed to control the anxiety before going on stage, which was probably present at the very beginning of your career?

“At some point you have to start fighting this.” It is impossible to go on stage with excitement - you need to do this in complete peace. Only then will something human emerge. And I apparently struggled for some time. But I’m probably still worried, though, much less now.

- And this excitement then turns into pleasure? Maybe there is euphoria after it?

- I didn’t think about it. But every time the excitement is like an exam. You still have to turn yourself on somehow. And this happens differently for everyone - there are no secrets.

Sometimes you get ready and think: “Well, there’s going to be a great performance today. I’m so cheerful!” But something doesn't happen. It happens that you, in some completely terrible state, tired after a night shift, think: “My God, how am I going to work as an artist today?!” And when you go out, it turns out the other way around. An unpredictable thing, in fact.

— The series “Desperadoes” is currently being filmed in Moscow, in which you are taking part. Tell us about your heroine.

- I'm playing cool woman. Her name is Rita. She is very positive, does not lose heart under any circumstances, and loves life very much. And, probably, this is mutual - despite some of its complex vicissitudes.

This is a story of two polarities different women who, due to circumstances, end up together. These women are always on the move, they are running away from certain circumstances, they are saving themselves. Such a movement.

• Shot from the series “Bhound”

— Do you learn anything from your characters? By creating them and endowing them with some qualities, in the end, perhaps, you adopt something from them?

— It happens that at a certain moment you begin to communicate a little, like them. For example, this Rita talks all the time with some kind of interjections. Well, that’s how she is—certain words slip through her lips. And then sometimes you come home and notice that they, too, begin to skip more than usual.

— Actors who had to play representatives of the criminal world said that then tinted jeeps stopped near them and the people in them expressed their respect, so to speak. Have you received something like this? feedback?

- Yes, sure. I had one like this good series"Zhukov". I played Zhukov’s wife there. They say the police like it!

After this role, someone tried to stop me, but another policeman said: “Don’t even touch me, you have to give honor - it’s Zhukov’s wife who’s coming.”

Therefore, it is possible to break it sometimes. I'm kidding, but... Maybe not exactly to violate, but sometimes to at least get some kind of leniency.

Now I’m actually like a lieutenant colonel (Banshchikova is referring to her role in the series “Bhound.” - RT). I remember how I lost my passport in Gelendzhik and came to get a new one. I go to the police station, which appears in the series. Lieutenant Colonel Kushnir serves in the Gelendzhik police. I arrive, and they immediately start calling someone: “Our boss Kushnir has come to us.” Everyone lined up...

— Did you do it quickly?

- Actually instantly. And it was funny that they perceived everything as if their boss had really come.

• Shot from the series “Bhound 2”

— Your Instagram is absolutely amazing. It's very bright...

- Yes, you know. They say that not everyone is like this! But what I read... they write such wonderful things to me! Just pleasant things. There is none negative feedback.

— Which review do you remember most?

- That I charge people from a distance. That people look at me from a distance and are happy.

They edit some incredible videos for me and send them to me every day, they make me happy. Some people find photographs, come up with something, and endlessly surprise.

I read and answer. I am in active communication with them. People are involved in my work life and I really support that. This is very, very important, really.

— Again, on your Instagram, you recently posted a video from the filming of a new series. There you are standing by the car, an explosion occurs and you fall to the ground. How difficult is it to film similar scenes?

— In this film, we quite often fall, and crawl, and climb through forests, we overcome various obstacles all the time, we kill people... And there are some wild scenes with truck drivers.

Well, whether it’s difficult or not, I don’t know. If you're interested, it's not difficult. It’s difficult when you’re not interested and when you don’t want to do it. And when it’s interesting, you’re involved in it, everything becomes a joy, everything works out.

• Still from the film “Hunting for Piranha”

— How do you feel about uncomfortable locations? So we visited the filming of your new series in a place to which the word “comfort” does not apply...

- What comfort can there be when there are night shifts, when it’s terribly cold, and we’re finishing filming?

In our story, it’s early autumn now. That’s why we walk around practically naked, with bare legs and wearing some summer clothes. And it’s very cold outside—behind the scenes it could already be snowing. It's all uncomfortable, but no one said it would be comfortable!

It doesn't scare me. This is part of the horrors of the profession, as they say. We're used to it. During filming, I ran barefoot in the snow, and drowned in icy water, and jumped from a helicopter... And now in the forests, in the rain, cold and hail.

— Don’t stuntmen jump from helicopters?

— In “Piranha Hunt” we ourselves jumped from a helicopter, from five meters. Well, sometimes you have to overcome some things in yourself in order for something to work out.

— What would you never do for a role? Maybe they wouldn’t shave off their eyebrows or cut their hair bald?

- If only there was a cool script, good director And interesting idea, I would do anything. I don't hold onto my eyebrows or my hair. On the contrary, I advocate such experiments with changes. I don't like playing the same people.

- “As if,” probably. Stupid word.

— Your first role in kindergarten or in a school play?

- Don't know. I remember I was a snowflake. For some time, two years, I studied ballet at the Palace of Pioneers. How they took me is unclear. Through connections, probably. I had a pack, I was a snowflake. I danced right in some children's ballet...

• Still from the TV series “Secrets of Investigation-6”, 2006

- What will cause you more discomfort - unwashed hair or a cracked manicure?

- Unwashed hair. And now it’s fashionable to wear a cracked manicure. By the way, I’m playing this Rita now, and she’s been in motion the whole film - they started running away. So I walk around with a peeled manicure now. But everyone says: “It’s so fashionable now.”

- From whom is yours? last message on WhatsApp or another messenger?

- From my director.

— Do children often write to you?

- No, they don’t have phones. Thank God they haven't asked for them yet. I’m somehow putting off this moment... That’s why they don’t write to me. I call grandma or dad, through them I can talk to the children.

— Do you still have any childhood fear?

— There are probably a lot of fears. Loneliness - that everyone will leave you, abandon you. They will disappear and you will be left alone.

I remember that I was always afraid - like all children, probably - that my mother would pass away. I had some such things.

- And now, if this happens, what do you do? Are you going to hug the children?

“That’s probably not what’s happening now.” Now, sometimes I wake up in the morning because I’m scared that I didn’t have time, didn’t do something. I don’t know whether it’s a child’s fear or an adult’s fear of not being able to do something in time.

— Do you perform any ritual before filming begins?

- Yes, there is no such ritual. When you sit in makeup, you somehow just turn on, turn into an artist.

“I hope my children don’t become actors”

Photo: Mikhail Korolev

On the air of the radio station “Echo of Moscow”: Philip Brusnikin, producer, Daria Lavrova, producer, Anna Banshchikova, leading role in the series “Bhound”.

The broadcast is hosted by Elena Afanasyeva.

E. Afanasyeva- Good evening! “Teleguard” is on air, a program about the essence of television, about those who define and preserve this essence. In Elena Afanasyeva's studio, as always on Sundays, we talk to you about people, programs, events and anti-events that influence what our television will be like today and tomorrow.

Quite a sensational, popular project, the 3rd season of which is now on air on Channel One, “Snoop,” and the people who wonderful project done today in the studio. Well, first of all, the leading actress, Anya Banshchikova.

A. Banshchikova- Good evening! Hello!

E. Afanasyeva- Hello Anna! Thank you, I know you were there, you have a filming shift today, thank you for letting you go...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, somehow they released me unexpectedly, yes, unexpectedly.

E. Afanasyeva- And executive producer, Philip Brusnikin, hello, Philip!

F. Brusnikin- Hello!

E. Afanasyeva- We will also be joined by Daria Lavrova, the producer of this series, we hope that we are about to get stuck in a traffic jam somewhere.

Dear listeners, our means of communication are normal.

7-985-970-45-45.

You can ask your questions, remarks, comments, whether you like this genre.

How do you define an ironic detective story or do you have another definition of the genre? Anna?

A. Banshchikova- You know, I’m somehow not good at defining genres, but an ironic detective story, maybe, maybe yes...

F. Brusnikin- Sounds good.

A. Banshchikova- Yes, it sounds like the word “ironic” suits us.

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, somewhere, somewhere, in my opinion, in the 90s there was a boom in fiction when they translated Ioanna Khmelevskaya, then Daria Dontsova appeared, then they were filmed, somehow then this trend began to decline, and now your series, in my opinion, renewed this story.

Philip, can you tell me where the idea of ​​making the series “Bhound” came from, especially since, as far as I know, this is an adaptation of a Western format, this type of series?

F. Brusnikin- This is an American format, and it is known, in general, all over the world, and, well, I’m afraid to be mistaken with the number of countries in which remakes of this product were made, but, in general, we say that one of the most successful remakes ...

A. Banshchikova- Options.

F. Brusnikin- Yes, of this format, that’s just Daria Lavrova...

E. Afanasyeva- Here comes Daria Lavrova, yes, the producer of the series. We started with where the idea to make the series “Bhound” came from, to adapt the international format.

D. Lavrova- Uh, hello!

E. Afanasyeva- Hello!

D. Lavrova- Where did the idea come from, well, in fact, every producer is always looking for some options that would be easy to produce, interesting and easy, and then one day, that means, a flash drive with this wonderful format “The Closer” was put on my table...

E. Afanasyeva- Is this an American format or not?

D. Lavrova- This is Warner Brothers.

E. Afanasyeva― Warner Brothers.

D. Lavrova- Yes. So, at first we looked and didn’t seem to find anything special there, but at the same time I thought, after all, there are 8 seasons in the original format...

E. Afanasyeva- Yeah, this is already a hint to our viewers that everything will not end this week, this is already pleasing.

D. Lavrova- I hope that it will be even more than in the American format, we all hope so...

A. Banshchikova- Will.

D. Lavrova- So, we looked and realized that there are absolutely fantastic vertical things there...

E. Afanasyeva- Vertical matters, let’s explain to our listeners...

D. Lavrova- Yes, the detectives themselves.

E. Afanasyeva- That series are divided into those where there is a horizontal line, when everything develops gradually from episode to episode, there is a vertical line, when everything ends within one episode, and horizontal-vertical is like yours...

D. Lavrova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Where there is a line of the main character and her colleagues, they develop, and the cases in each episode are new, did I explain correctly?

D. Lavrova- Absolutely, that is...

E. Afanasyeva- Well, that’s good.

D. Lavrova- All these bloody, terrible crimes pass through the prism of the main character’s life. So, the cases themselves, these crimes themselves were so interesting and original that we thought why not, but naturally we really wanted to make our heroine something completely unusual, because there were strong, powerful, such iron women on television there are plenty, there are a lot of examples of this, and we thought, shouldn’t we go the opposite way, why not make it absolutely a little bit like Columbus in a skirt, so a little confused, a little lost, a little bit always...

E. Afanasyeva- Quite a woman...

D. Lavrova- A woman...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, and her desk is a mess...

D. Lavrova- Absolutely.

E. Afanasyeva- And he also loves cakes and so on, yes.

A. Banshchikova- Yes, but it wasn’t at all, that is...

E. Afanasyeva- You came up with this...

A. Banshchikova- In the American format there was absolutely no...

D. Lavrova- Absolutely.

A. Banshchikova- Yes, because Kyra Sedgwick is strong, in general, so, somehow downright stylish, that’s the word...

D. Lavrova- So bitchy, yes...

A. Banshchikova- Such a woman is very, and when I...

E. Afanasyeva- That is, the original heroine...

A. Banshchikova- I was afraid to look at first, when I looked, I realized that I was completely, that is, I was completely not her, and I needed to go in some completely different direction, and come up with something completely different and my own, but to us By the way, we recently talked about this, people who monitor these formats all over the world arrived, and they sat on our site for so long, watching, and I think, well, everyone kind of sits silently, watches for a long time, and then at some point this woman came up to me, spread her arms like this, hugged me, she said, you did it, you felt her, I think, thank God, because, because they looked closely for a long time, in general, how- who we managed...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, we need to explain that when there is an international format, the company that sells it sends the so-called...

D. Lavrova- Consultant.

E. Afanasyeva― A flying producer, a consultant who flies to those countries where he is adapting and makes sure that the integrity of the idea is not violated...

A. Banshchikova- And he watches strictly.

E. Afanasyeva- And he’s watching.

D. Lavrova- And we were generally nervous, I must say.

E. Afanasyeva- Yes Yes. Let me remind you, we are talking about the series “Bhound”, which is now in its 3rd season on Channel One, you have another week left, Anna Banshchikova, the leading actress, here is Philip Brusnikin, executive producer, and Daria Lavrova, producer series. Who appeared first in this story, director Dmitry Brusnikin or the leading actors, including Anna?

D. Lavrova- Dmitry Vladimirovich Brusnikin was the first to appear, because as soon as we decided to make this series, we naturally began to think about the candidacy of the director, and since Philip and I came...

E. Afanasyeva- And since Philip is the son of Dmitry...

D. Lavrova- Yes…

F. Brusnikin- Yes…

E. Afanasyeva― You worked at the Star Media company, then there were probably family connections, did you persuade your father, Philip?

F. Brusnikin- Well, they persuaded me, yes...

E. Afanasyeva- You probably didn’t want to take time off to watch the series?

F. Brusnikin- It was hard to persuade him to film something, because after all, his main profession is theater and teaching, so he had to be persuaded, yes...

E. Afanasyeva― Just when I found out that the director was Dmitry Brusnikin, but I didn’t yet know that Philip was the executive producer, I was surprised, I think so light genre, such a semi-comedy, and suddenly Dmitry Brusnikin makes it, now it is clear that the son was persistent, including his colleagues.

D. Lavrova- Well, I’ll just add that this idea didn’t even come easily, but because Philip and I, in general, came from under the wing of Pavel Petrovich Korchagin from Studio 2B, who...

E. Afanasyeva- Our wonderful...

D. Lavrova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Dear and beloved...

D. Lavrova- Our beloved, dear.

F. Brusnikin- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Hello to him.

D. Lavrova- We are his chicks, so to speak, yes, and there Dmitry Vladimirovich made, in my opinion, 3 or 2 seasons, I don’t remember now...

F. Brusnikin- There were a lot of seasons...

D. Lavrova- “Law and Order”...

F. Brusnikin- “Law and Order” was...

D. Lavrova- This is also an adaptation of the famous world...

E. Afanasyeva- That is, you knew that he knew how to work. How he searched, how the director searched for actors and were there, how many competitors did Anna have, that’s an interesting question...

A. Banshchikova- Very.

E. Afanasyeva- Very. Tell us, Philip, how you searched for actors and how much it took...

F. Brusnikin- Somehow...

E. Afanasyeva- Put your competitors on your shoulder blades?

F. Brusnikin- I don’t know, Anya somehow appeared with us, in general, she appeared, and that’s it, and Anya was there, we and the main character We didn’t think for a long time, we were putting together a team, an entourage, yes, dad was sort of recruiting, there were a lot of him, well, in general, the Moscow Art Theater actors, there were Denis Burgazliev, and Edik Chekmazov, and they all, in general , the Moscow Art Theater, well, he somehow assembled such a cool team around Anya, they are all so organic and alive in the frame, and all this, in general, works out so well.

E. Afanasyeva- Anya, you said that you were worried, everything, how difficult it was for you to come up with it, how you came up with it, why this Alexandra of yours...

A. Banshchikova- She somehow came up with it because, really, I won’t hide the fact that I watched, yes, here’s an American heroine, I found something like that in her, she’s somehow, on the one hand, strange, on the one hand , some kind of thing, I felt some kind of thing that just needed to be adapted to ours, that is, to me again, so that it was some kind of person who was not alien to me, and I somehow, I don’t know , this is how it actually happened intuitively, this woman came up who empathizes with everyone, empathizes with these people whom she interrogates, because everyone has their own truth absolutely, and she stands on their side, as if on their side, on their some kind of understanding, because if you take two people there, they always have, everyone there, yes, if a husband and wife get divorced, they will have some kind of their own truth, everyone, and this is some kind of the basis of some kind of thing seemed correct to me, and then some of her personal experiences were superimposed on it all, she is a kind of person, emotional and at the same time she...

E. Afanasyeva- And these details, the feminine details of the image...

A. Banshchikova- She can be very tough...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes Yes.

A. Banshchikova- And at the same time, she is completely uncollected in life, that is, this is such a contrast, it seems to me, interesting.

E. Afanasyeva- I think that many Russian women are exactly like this, at work wow...

D. Lavrova- Absolutely.

A. Banshchikova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- All the men are on the shoulder, and then he gets lost in his personal and everyday life, and cannot talk to the management company in the house.

A. Banshchikova- Yes, she can’t, as it were, in everything, yes, if she is very focused on something, something is very important to her, she focuses on something, then, probably, in life she can be such some kind of opposite, in general, somehow it came up in the process, in general, of everything, and of course, and thanks to Dmitry Vladimirovich, it’s huge simply because it’s such a joint thing of ours, this is our kind of sense of humor that Dmitry Vladimirovich has incredible, it’s somehow like this, all this together gave such a result.

E. Afanasyeva- Did you shoot seasonally per year or in some other way?

D. Lavrova- Oh, well, if...

E. Afanasyeva― Daria Lavrova.

D. Lavrova- Yes, we filmed, we filmed the first season separately, and we filmed the second and third together, because it was such a rare case for Channel One when they believed in us so much...

E. Afanasyeva- They ordered 2 for you at once...

D. Lavrova- They ordered us 2 seasons at once.

E. Afanasyeva- So you shot how many episodes in a row?

D. Lavrova- 32 episodes.

E. Afanasyeva- Wow!

D. Lavrova- Well, for TV series producers this is not the limit, as we all know, so...

E. Afanasyeva- This is what I wanted to say, well, it is known that very often people working in the theater and in big cinema, as they say, they make extra money on TV series, yes, there is time, well, we’ll quickly star in a TV series, you said, Philip, that my father attracted Moscow Art Theater actors, that’s it, and suddenly there’s not just hackwork here, there’s not a single passing scene, they are all built beautifully, everything that is for the Moscow Art Theater people, for the actors, for the father and for, how the filming of the series was for the theater people, please tell us, Philip?

F. Brusnikin- No, well, of course, this is an opportunity to earn money, among other things...

E. Afanasyeva- Nobody hides this, of course.

F. Brusnikin- Yes, and there, well, our family was greatly helped by my father’s opportunities to film some series at one time or another, because there, for example, in the late 90s, I didn’t earn anything at all in the theater, and somehow everything it helped, so even there were actors, he also filmed a lot of his students in “Bhound”, some, however, he didn’t let in, some he still let in...

E. Afanasyeva- This punishment was for a student or...

F. Brusnikin- He was very protective there...

A. Banshchikova- I’ll even interrupt you, because...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, Anna Banshchikova...

A. Banshchikova― This is a great happiness, well, you know, how to film with Dmitry Vladimirovich Brusnikin, you know, as there are well-known directors for whom in America people film for free, so, in general, that is, well, this is for students, who are generally there their master invited them there...

F. Brusnikin- Well, yes, they would be happy to...

A. Banshchikova- This is generally a huge happiness, awe, they were wildly worried and in general they were just so happy and this...

F. Brusnikin- Well, plus this is income, this is help to these same young actors, who have just graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School or something else, to help at least somehow...

E. Afanasyeva- But at the same time, I heard in one of your interviews or somewhere that everything was so brilliantly organized with you and so easy to film that you even shooting day there was time left and you enjoyed spending time in the beautiful city, was it or is it already a legend?

F. Brusnikin- No, that’s why...

E. Afanasyeva- Moreover, as an executive producer, you know everything about the filming schedule.

F. Brusnikin- He knew how to shoot really quickly...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, you know...

E. Afanasyeva- A unique thing for a theater person, yes.

A. Banshchikova- You know…

E. Afanasyeva- Anna Banshchikova, yes.

A. Banshchikova- Well, how can I just say from the outside that I don’t know such a second person in general, who just, I keep saying that Dmitry Vladimirovich, he is such a person in general, just to film, he sets up huge scenes there out of 100 people in just a minute and a half, and he knows exactly what he wants and how it will all be, and it’s just incredible, I don’t know, I haven’t had such experience, here’s more than the second, I think it’s unlikely, to Unfortunately, it will probably be that...

F. Brusnikin- Yes, he somehow knew how to create scenes very quickly...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, to spread it out so quickly, to know exactly and at the same time preserve absolutely the meaning, to preserve everything in general, so that people quickly play it, understand what it’s about we're talking about, to convey the meaning, and in such a short period of time to do it emotionally, clearly, as if this is such a quality...

F. Brusnikin- So we still have time, yes, and to watch football...

D. Lavrova- Yes, especially during the World Cup it was...

E. Afanasyeva- Were you still filming at this time?

D. Lavrova- No, during, whatever...

F. Brusnikin- There was some kind of championship...

D. Lavrova- There was some kind of championship...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, there were some football games when we had to come in the morning and we understood that until three, at three there would be football...

E. Afanasyeva- Everything, everything is clear...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, we play fast and cool.

E. Afanasyeva- Dad was a fan, no? Or is it others on the set?

F. Brusnikin- No, he loved football very much, he played it well, and in general, all these people were there, well, they haven’t been there for the last 10 years, but before, well, there were some there...

E. Afanasyeva- Ah, theater clubs...

F. Brusnikin- Between, yes, these theatrical ones...

E. Afanasyeva- Between theaters, yes, they played?

F. Brusnikin- And he pulled out, there the Moscow Art Theater is always in the first rows, because he came out, scored quickly and...

E. Afanasyeva- Is everything very fast too?

F. Brusnikin- Yes, he played football very successfully...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, and we had such, of course, funny ones, that is, these shifts, when all around me and only men, who are all fans and only me, and the text is basically all there, I have a lot of text, and they , Anya, so, today everything is fast, you have 3 hours there...

E. Afanasyeva- None...

A. Banshchikova- Let's all quickly, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- We are talking about the series “Bhound” in the “Teleguard” program, the third season is on “Channel One”, another week, week, yes, of showing...

D. Lavrova- A week, yes, still.

E. Afanasyeva― It remained, especially as far as the audience noticed or did not notice, it was with the series “Snoop” that a unique situation occurred, for many years TV channels showed episodes not one at a time, but the so-called double, built-in series, which does not exist in the world at all, because in the world there are a vertical series, which is generally shown once a week, which gives producers a unique opportunity to watch, develop the series, and film in the process; we showed series that ended very quickly, because they were watched in 2 episodes, and on some channels in 3 episodes, 4 each...

D. Lavrova- And there were 5...

E. Afanasyeva- And it happened 5 times, Dasha, this is, well, firstly, this is outside of economics and outside of the relationship with the viewer, because if the viewer likes it, he wants to prolong it, and not everyone has that much time to watch a lot a day , so Channel One took the first risk on the third season of “Snoop” and returned this show one episode at a time, and in my opinion, it didn’t lose...

A. Banshchikova- Yes…

E. Afanasyeva- Because the audience is watching, Anna...

A. Banshchikova- I’ll even say yes, because this is really such an experiment, probably...

E. Afanasyeva- Very risky.

A. Banshchikova- Yes, and it was obviously a success, because in fact, on my Instagram, they write me a huge number of letters, people at first are very like, why, we can’t live there, we can’t do it in such small portions...

E. Afanasyeva- We want more and more, we are already drug addicts, yes.

A. Banshchikova- At first everyone cursed, but they looked, yes, and looked, and the more we were like this, some kind of excitement was created, judging by some letters about how people were commenting on this, that they were the opposite They are waiting even more and somehow...

E. Afanasyeva- And they want to prolong the pleasure...

A. Banshchikova- No, they want it sooner, but they wait and discuss it more, and somehow it became somehow...

E. Afanasyeva- You said that you have more, that is, you have more subscribers on Instagram and more everywhere after “Snoop”?

A. Banshchikova- Yes, I have a huge number now, it’s simple, that is, I recently started using Instagram, and a huge number of people write to me, and I don’t have a single negative word, there’s not a single negative thing...

E. Afanasyeva- It's called a hater.

A. Banshchikova- Hater, yes...

E. Afanasyeva- In a fashionable word...

A. Banshchikova- People write such pleasant, absolutely amazing things, just some, and thank you very much for this...

E. Afanasyeva- Well, probably because the series is kind and you can feel from your relationship that it was made with kindness, and there are good comedies and so on, but they are filmed with a fierce hatred of everything I do, the microphone is a little closer, Dasha...

F. Brusnikin- No, we had such a very good atmosphere on the site.

D. Lavrova- We practically have a family, and very few, few people have changed over the course of three seasons, that is, we have practically the same camera crew, costume, makeup, these are all the same people...

E. Afanasyeva- We will now pause for news on “Echo of Moscow” and continue the conversation with Anna Banshchikova, the main bloodhound of our television now, yes, Dmitry Brusnikin, executive producer of the series “Bhound”, and Daria Lavrova, producer of the series.

E. Afanasyeva- Again Good evening! The wonderful people who make the series “Bhound” guest today on the “Teleguard” program are Anna Banshchikova, the leading actress, Daria Lavrova, the producer of the series, and the executive producer, Philip Brusnikin.

People here are upset that we lost your chat on YouTube, yes, I was sitting in a slightly different place, now we see you, so if you have questions, remarks and comments, please ask them, yes, otherwise you’re here They already communicated well without us.

There is a question, for example: “Why are there so many police series?”

Daria, why are there so many police series?

D. Lavrova- Well, I don’t know, it seems to me that detectives, crimes, police officers are beautiful or police women are beautiful, and it’s always terribly interesting, there are plenty of them, why not, if it’s done well, dashingly done, if it’s done interestingly.

E. Afanasyeva- I just saw a fragment of the “Let Them Talk” program, where a specialist, actually from the criminal investigation department, tried to rudely tell you that this doesn’t happen in life, in TV series there should be this kind of irony, it should be like in life or in yours was there another task? Anh?

A. Banshchikova- Oh, I don’t know, well, no, probably in the cinema, I don’t know, I don’t know, Philip, tell me, how should it be?

F. Brusnikin- I always say, this is a movie, we’re not making a documentary story...

A. Banshchikova- Yes.

F. Brusnikin- We’re filming, yes, so it’s clear that for specialists there are a lot of mistakes, but we’re not specifically talking about this, it was funny story about, about the mayor of Gelendzhik, when we filmed the first “Snoop,” and they told me about him...

E. Afanasyeva- And the first one you had, actually, was supposedly not in Gelendzhik...

F. Brusnikin- Well, we hid it, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- And the city was called differently...

D. Lavrova- Divnomorsk, something like that...

E. Afanasyeva- But did you film there?

D. Lavrova- Yes.

F. Brusnikin- Yes. It was like an invented city. And someone told me, it means, about a conversation with some official from, from Krasnodar region, it means that some official came to the mayor, and they started talking about “Bhound”, they filmed “Bhound” here, yes, “Bhound”, he says, but listen, you really have such crime ...

E. Afanasyeva- That you have to solve crimes every day, is he upset?

F. Brusnikin- He was upset and tense when we came with a proposal to shoot the second and third...

E. Afanasyeva- In my opinion, now many cities, on the contrary, are accepting and creating film commissions...

D. Lavrova- Certainly.

E. Afanasyeva- They are promoting their pride and it just seems to me that Gelendzhik is such an ideal place in your film, where you want to relax.

D. Lavrova- Well, I must say that Gelendzhik helped us a lot, absolutely wonderful people work there...

F. Brusnikin- Yes.

D. Lavrova- Absolutely in love by some Soviet standards, you know, by such standards, lovers of cinema, who work on such absolutely amazing enthusiasm, so the mayor’s office of Gelendzhik helped us, and the leadership, in general, of the Krasnodar Territory helped us, and I hope , so it will be...

A. Banshchikova- And we are already in love with Gelendzhik...

D. Lavrova- In general, we...

A. Banshchikova- As honorary residents...

D. Lavrova- Yes, this is already our second hometown.

E. Afanasyeva- I think that yes, indeed, you will bring so many new vacationers there.

"Good evening! I like Bloodhound, Anna Banshchikova is good in it...” - this is a comment from Olga from Moscow. “But when voiced, it often sounds intrusive...”

Oh, sorry, I coughed.

A. Banshchikova- How how? “During the voice acting very often, intrusively, not too much for a heroine of this age...”, ah, ooh, “... ooh, sighs and mooing of the heroine by the middle of the series begins to unnerve”

D. Lavrova- This is not with voice acting...

A. Banshchikova- Sorry…

D. Lavrova- Need to say…

A. Banshchikova- This is not for voice acting, this is the hard life of just a heroine...

D. Lavrova- This is reality.

A. Banshchikova- Heavy...

D. Lavrova- Yes.

A. Banshchikova- Its heavy female share simply reveals itself.

“Good luck to Anya and the series”

Thank you, Olga!

F. Brusnikin- Thank you!

D. Lavrova- Yes thank you. No, well, in fact, it often happens during voice acting that sometimes there is a sigh or it seems...

A. Banshchikova- No, it means oohs, sighs, that she is like that, she, in general, is like that. Alexandra Ivanovna is not the lightest, not a fluff, she behaves somehow, in general, she is, I invented her like that, she is not like that , if she sits down, then everything is not so easy for her...

D. Lavrova- Well, everything is like in life...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, everything is like in life, yes, life is not easy for her, she gets very tired and works a lot.

E. Afanasyeva- I’m very sorry, yes, I coughed and my guests had to do it themselves...

A. Banshchikova- We are nothing...

E. Afanasyeva- They ask, oh, here’s the letter, then.

“Home, sweet series, thank you, success!” - Snezhana from Tambov.

A. Banshchikova- Thank you!

E. Afanasyeva- "Good evening! We love the series, it's great cast" - Olga from Moscow.

So, what else did they write to us?

“Why are aunts always smarter than everyone else?...” - Ruprecht asks, “... This is rabid sexism”

Let's let Philip answer.

A. Banshchikova- Philip, come on, answer us.

F. Brusnikin- Why? They're really smart, what about you? They are smart, why should we be deceived?

A. Banshchikova- Yes.

F. Brusnikin- Therefore, there is no sexism, and we have beautiful people there...

A. Banshchikova- But not without him...

F. Brusnikin- Well, wonderful, the whole team is male, in general, they reveal everything, they help to do it all.

E. Afanasyeva- Well, she builds them perfectly, and, in my opinion, women really like it...

A. Banshchikova- We ourselves have become the cool guys we once were...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes…

A. Banshchikova- When I was young, I dreamed of getting married.

E. Afanasyeva- By the way, I saw this one of yours in some of your...

A. Banshchikova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Interview this quote, I think it’s brilliant.

A. Banshchikova- Well, this is not my quote...

E. Afanasyeva- And whose?

A. Banshchikova- Some famous actress said this, it just seems to me that she somehow fits in general, for today, for today’s time, maybe even...

E. Afanasyeva- The state of affairs in gender relations...

A. Banshchikova- To our series...

E. Afanasyeva- In Russia as well.

A. Banshchikova- A?

E. Afanasyeva― Towards gender attitudes in Russia.

A. Banshchikova- Well, somehow we took the reins of power into our own hands, and the men, in general, allowed us what to do.

E. Afanasyeva- I still…

D. Lavrova- We were happy to allow it

A. Banshchikova- With pleasure, yes.

F. Brusnikin- We help behind the camera.

A. Banshchikova- They will reconsider theirs somehow, yes.

E. Afanasyeva― Yes, I remind you once again, we are talking about the series “Bhound” and since Daria Lavrova, the producer, told us that the original had 8 seasons, they hope there will be more, we also hope, but how will the work be built further, does he order channel, what will happen, because, well, the tragic death of Dmitry Vladimirovich will probably complicate the work, Daria?

D. Lavrova- Well, look, now, of course, negotiations are underway with the channel regarding the continuation, we all actually did, at first, when everything happened, we were, well, just, we, naturally, didn’t even discuss it, but after that , how it became, such success came from the third season and we, and Anya, and I receive letters, I talk with people, and we all talk and understand that everyone wants, these characters have become family to everyone, that’s why most likely there will be a continuation , we probably really hope it will be, but regarding the candidate for director, this is the very moment complex issue, because besides the fact that, naturally, there will never be the same person again, we all understand this very well, but this is a huge responsibility, and I will honestly tell you, I am negotiating with several people, and first of all everyone says, Dash , well, this is a terrible responsibility, we think, we have to think, here, but I hope that now if, I won’t name names, but in principle I hope that the continuation will be worthy, this is in no way a replacement, it will be a slightly different continuation, but with the same heroes, with the same moods, and with our same beautiful Anya, who, of course, is the soul, heart and face of this wonderful project.

A. Banshchikova- Well, without Dmitry Vladimirovich, of course, it will be difficult to imagine, I sometimes feel like this, I can’t even imagine at all, that is, it seems to me that somehow it doesn’t matter, I still, it seems to me all the time that he is with us and somehow, and I still somehow talk about Dmitry Vladimirovich all the time, as if he were here next to us, and somehow, and I can’t imagine, it seems to me that it’s like Well, I don’t understand how it will be without him.

D. Lavrova- Nobody understands yet.

E. Afanasyeva- Philip, well, here I can only express my condolences once again, especially to you...

F. Brusnikin- Thank you…

E. Afanasyeva- As a son, I know that you were born younger son, you named him Dmitry...

F. Brusnikin- In honor of dad, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Did this coincide almost in time with your father’s departure?

F. Brusnikin- Well…

E. Afanasyeva- A few days difference?

F. Brusnikin- 10, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- So the dad left, and the son was born 10 days later?

F. Brusnikin- Yes, in 11.

E. Afanasyeva- After 11. You know how they believe, they don’t believe in the transmigration of souls...

F. Brusnikin- Yes, this is actually...

E. Afanasyeva- Mystically.

F. Brusnikin- Here, for 40 days, when it happened, one of my guys from his, from my father’s, Zolotovitsky, in my opinion, it turns out, Roman Efimovich Kozak also, when he died...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes you…

F. Brusnikin- His daughter gave birth literally a week later, something like that, relocation...

E. Afanasyeva- Dad’s soul is with you in the new Dmitry Brusnikin.

F. Brusnikin- Well, yes. That is, now there is, yes, Dmitry Brusnikin.

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, I understand how orphaned you all are, but may God grant your family, your mother, courage to continue life...

F. Brusnikin- Thank you very much.

E. Afanasyeva- Because I understand that the Brusnikinites stayed with my mother, right?

F. Brusnikin- Now she is dragging, yes, this whole story, because, well, so far there are no official appointments, but I think that all this will happen.

E. Afanasyeva- Well, we convey our deepest condolences once again...

F. Brusnikin- Thanks a lot.

E. Afanasyeva- And she has the strength to raise everything that was, and you have the strength to find a director who can continue this.

Let's also read what they write, we have a chat on YouTube, they, in my opinion, discuss the series, yours and others, very well among themselves.

“What is the highlight of “Bhound” in contrast to “Capercaillie”, “Secrets of the Investigation” and “Kamenskaya”?”

Sergei, probably not very much...

D. Lavrova- I just didn’t look...

E. Afanasyeva― He watches women’s series because “Glukhar”, although “Secrets of the Investigation”, “Kamenskaya” can probably be compared, these are series from different times, “Secrets of the Investigation”, in my opinion, lasts for 18 seasons somewhere, that means in in general...

D. Lavrova- Yes, they have, of course...

E. Afanasyeva- That heroine coincided with her time.

D. Lavrova- I agree, yes, but you can compare there in terms of people’s love, I would say so, but, of course, in terms of mood and, even realism, you can’t compare, because “Secrets of the Investigation” is still a more, more documentary-based series, and we, of course, have a completely different heroine, our heroine is such an explosion, an explosion, always somehow unkempt, disheveled, so terribly funny, and as Anya herself says, damn charming, the woman there is completely different, she is always, she always in shape, even when out of shape, and our woman, our heroine...

E. Afanasyeva- She is always out of uniform, even when in uniform.

D. Lavrova- She’s always out of shape, even when she’s in shape, that’s absolutely true.

E. Afanasyeva- It's clear.

D. Lavrova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- But I remember a story, probably eighteen years ago, if not more, that the actress, the performer of the role, Anna Kovalchuk, gave birth almost on camera, because her heroine gave birth there, as far as I know, your daughter was born between seasons, Yes?

A. Banshchikova- She was born before these two...

E. Afanasyeva- Before two, that is, you still filmed the first season without her?

A. Banshchikova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva-Has she already appeared in your frame for the second time?

A. Banshchikova- She appeared, yes, quite by accident, she appeared.

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, and even she was a boy there?

A. Banshchikova- She was a boy, yes, she was so wonderful, I already told you somewhere, Dmitry Vladimirovich also said that how it will be, how it will be, how funny it will be when she grows up and says that I was Mashenka, and played Yurochka , it will be somehow, but if she just says, she was Mashenka, played Mashenka, well, it’s somehow uninteresting...

F. Brusnikin- Nothing interesting…

E. Afanasyeva- Practically Sofia Coppola, who played her father’s, yes, infant, child during the scene of that famous...

F. Brusnikin- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Baptism, so that's it.

Let me remind you once again, we are talking about the series “Bhound”, this series was produced by the wonderful company “Star Media”, otherwise we have never named it...

D. Lavrova- Yes Yes.

E. Afanasyeva― Where Daria Lavrova, the producer, works, Philip Brusnikin, the executive producer, and now Anna Banshchikova is starring in this series.

I wanted to ask, after all, you are still working with the channel and it is difficult to name dates, maybe you can tell me what other projects Star Media is preparing...

D. Lavrova- Oh, we have a lot of projects, and Vlad Ryashin is absolutely like ours general producer, he is such a rocket that generally rushes uncontrollably towards the stars, but I can, we seem to have several producers, I can just say that a lot is in development, several projects are being filmed, Philip and I have just finished a very interesting work with Andrey Eshpai, this is also, by the way, an adaptation of the Doctor Foster project, this is the BBC, which also has 2 seasons and was very successful there, we just finished, we had Vika Isakova in the leading role, and the whole a constellation of actors just with her, an absolutely piercing drama...

F. Brusnikin- The cast got ready seriously.

D. Lavrova- Yes, a very serious cast. About a woman who, in the very first episode, a woman finds out that her husband is cheating on her, it’s like it’s not an intrigue, that’s all...

F. Brusnikin- Don’t tell me all about the movie...

D. Lavrova- Yes, no, in fact, that’s all, in fact, all that can be told about this story, then a thriller begins, which happens practically in this woman’s head, and how the woman becomes completely, completely different, and understands that all life, which she had, she, in fact, did not actually exist, a very life story.

E. Afanasyeva- I saw that you are working on “The Heart of Parma”, a project...

D. Lavrova- Oh yes, this is ours...

E. Afanasyeva- Tell me...

D. Lavrova- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Philip, maybe you can tell me something, Daria will continue, because...

F. Brusnikin- Well…

E. Afanasyeva- Some kind of grandiose swing...

F. Brusnikin- A large, complex project...

E. Afanasyeva- Is this a series or a film?

D. Lavrova- Well, now we are discussing both.

F. Brusnikin“We’ve been doing it for quite a long time, and now we’ve finally started some kind of construction of the scenery of these huge...

E. Afanasyeva- What kind of decoration needs to be built so that this is the 15th century?

F. Brusnikin: 15- 2nd century, yes...

D. Lavrova- Yes.

F. Brusnikin- This is the 15th century, and this is Perm, ancient Russian Perm city, which was called Cherdyn, well, by the way, it still exists now, this city, Cherdyn, well, it’s just that now it’s such an ordinary, in general, Russian town in the outback, but then it was such a center of the Perm principality, well, it’s complicated, complicated ...

E. Afanasyeva- And where are the decorations themselves, they are there somewhere in Perm region?

F. Brusnikin- Some of the scenery will be built in the Perm region, some of the scenery will be built in the Moscow region, and some of the scenery will be built in the pavilion.

E. Afanasyeva- Well, in fact, you probably also filmed when you had Gelendzhik in Gelendzhik, and probably the police department because of the logistics of filming...

D. Lavrova- Moscow.

E. Afanasyeva- This studio is here, yes.

F. Brusnikin- In Moscow, of course.

E. Afanasyeva- Irene Byron noticed on our YouTube that Daria has a very beautiful sweater, a wonderful color.

D. Lavrova- Sweater color?

E. Afanasyeva- Yes.

D. Lavrova- Thank you.

E. Afanasyeva- You see how attentive we are...

D. Lavrova- Thank you.

A. Banshchikova- We also noticed immediately.

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, we noticed that too.

“I couldn’t tear myself away from the detective series Grantchester,” Tina writes.

Stas asks: “Good evening everyone! I watched a little of the first episode, it suited Anya well the main role, you look great, tell me what’s the highlight?”

So, in general, in my opinion, this is what we are talking about...

A. Banshchikova- That's all we talk about, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- We are talking about the highlight. In my opinion, the highlight in this case is how you successfully set it on Russian soil, because very often in adaptations, when there are even wonderful, as Daria said, vertical affairs that are built dramaturgically, but it’s hard to believe what can happen us in our country, how, how difficult was it to land all these stories on our soil?

D. Lavrova- Well, “Bhound” was not as difficult as “Law and Order”, because “Law and Order” is pure procedural, that is, there is a lot of forensic legal stuff...

E. Afanasyeva- Which are very different for us...

D. Lavrova- Well, of course, they are different here, but “The Bloodhound” is still built more on human dramas, these vertical stories, detective stories, and I want to say that we have 3 excellent screenwriters, Denis Chervyakov, Volodya Arkusha and Sergei Stepanov, and Yusup Razykov also joined us, by the way, a famous director, he also worked on the second, on the third season, and I hope that, if everything goes well, he will continue to work with us, these are the people who made, in general, then, the series “Bhound”, which found this style of speech characteristics of our heroine, and set a certain script rhythm, and they just look at the original stories, select those that can be adapted, well, because there are, for example, some cases there - only there are local migrants characteristic of America, for example, yes, which, in general, they are also transferred to our soil, because I will repeat once again, this is a human drama, that is, if someone is killed loved one, then it doesn’t really matter who he is, what he is, well, yes, something like that, the chain will develop a little, maybe in a different way, and the motivations, or rather the motivations will be the same, just the course of the investigation will be a little different us, that is, it was not difficult, I will say this, it was interesting.

E. Afanasyeva― Daria Lavrova, producer of the series “Bhound”. you said about speech characteristics and so on, did they, the scriptwriters, find it right away or did Anya add something of her own later and gradually develop?

D. Lavrova- Well, Anya, of course, added a lot of her own, because Anya has someone like that in her life, Anya, if you allow me, yes, I...

E. Afanasyeva- An, what’s yours, some words or habits in your speech?

A. Banshchikova- No, it seems to me on the contrary, I notice that in life I speak quite quickly, but Alexandra Ivanovna speaks completely differently, she somehow constructs things differently, firstly...

D. Lavrova- She also speaks quickly...

A. Banshchikova- She’s not...

D. Lavrova- I think that’s the beauty of it.

A. Banshchikova- No, on the contrary, what are you...

E. Afanasyeva- Compared with…

D. Lavrova- She's chattering.

A. Banshchikova- No, she speaks very slowly about some things, very clearly, very clearly...

F. Brusnikin- Compared to Anya, she speaks slowly...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, compared to Anya, she speaks slowly, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- It's clear. Who came up with the idea of ​​eating cakes? Was that in the original?

D. Lavrova- These are our screenwriters, this was their trick.

E. Afanasyeva- How many times, An, I look with horror as a woman, and think, how many takes, was Anya afraid of gaining weight on these cakes?

A. Banshchikova- They always ask if we eat so often, I don’t know, I wasn’t afraid, I’m not, I’m not afraid...

E. Afanasyeva― “We love the series...” writes Kristina Poddubnaya on our channel “Echo Culture” on YouTube, “... it’s already impossible to imagine an evening without it. Anna is beautiful"

A. Banshchikova- Thank you!

E. Afanasyeva- Sergei is interested: “Anna, haven’t you worked at least a day at a police station for experience?”

A. Banshchikova- No, you know, purely, we work on pure intuition.

E. Afanasyeva- Olga asks: “I’ve never watched it, why is it shown on “Kultura”?”

No, they show it not on “Culture”, but on “Channel One”, and you, Olga...

D. Lavrova- NRZB.

E. Afanasyeva― On the channel “Echo Culture”.

And where else could we talk about that work, besides “Snoop”, which Philip and Anna have, you have...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, I’m right now...

E. Afanasyeva- An...

A. Banshchikova- Now I’m filming, by the way, also in the company “Star Media”...

E. Afanasyeva- Well…

A. Banshchikova- Here…

E. Afanasyeva- You found each other.

A. Banshchikova- We found each other, yes, in another project, which is called, will be called “Desperate”, this is a story about two desperate girls.

E. Afanasyeva- Desperate housewives?

A. Banshchikova- Well, they are not housewives, but they are desperate, overcoming all kinds of ups and downs in their lives, too.

E. Afanasyeva- It's clear.

I wanted to know, there are 4 episodes left, so as not to spoil it, but suddenly there are people who haven’t watched it again in 3 seasons, but you can hook them now, maybe they’ll watch the episodes tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and watch previous ones, what would you tell them? Daria Lavrova?

D. Lavrova- Well, it’s a must watch, because I have a relative, my husband’s sister, who writes angry text messages to me after every episode, for example, did you kill him, why, or, for example, he will remain disabled, why are you doing this, Well, she takes it all very seriously...

E. Afanasyeva- And the producers who filmed this a year and a half ago, or a year ago, don’t always understand what kind of business they’re talking about, right?

D. Lavrova- Oh, no, you’re wrong...

E. Afanasyeva- Or are you really following?

D. Lavrova- Because we, well, handed over the episodes, we actually did post-production in the summer...

E. Afanasyeva- So you were broadcasting?

D. Lavrova- Well, practically, because I watched every episode there 16 times, so I remember everything perfectly, so, and I must say that you should definitely watch it, because for each episode we ask so many questions about how it will develop personal life our heroine...

E. Afanasyeva- This is the main thing for the audience...

D. Lavrova- We have her, so to speak, pregnant, without a man...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, we have such a heroine, yes, she...

D. Lavrova- How to live, how to live...

A. Banshchikova- It’s not clear from whom she’s pregnant, but this, apparently, will become clear at some point, and you know, we need to watch, because even men...

D. Lavrova- This will become clear.

A. Banshchikova- I just told you somewhere recently, because it happened, I was so impressed by it, I’m standing in a traffic jam and some man, it means, beeps at me...

E. Afanasyeva- Did you find out?

A. Banshchikova- Anya, yes, Anya, open the door, I think, I don’t know, he wants to meet me, but he, tell me, please, tell me, Alexandra Ivanovna will be with Boris or not, and the man is so serious...

E. Afanasyeva- Man…

A. Banshchikova- I say, what are you, yes, so look, even men, you see, are interested, so check yourself to see how involved you will be too.

E. Afanasyeva- Here’s a more rude question: “I watched all the American ones, I didn’t see yours, but it’s hard to come up with a plot ourselves?” - Alexander.

And there is a more delicate version of it: “Why do we have so many licensed series, why not turn to remakes, for example, of old Soviet films? An excellent detective thriller would be made from “Education by Cruelty in Women and Dogs,” suggests Olga from Moscow.

D. Lavrova- Well, to be honest, when I went to the program, I was sure that such a question would be asked, and I can say, answering the first part of the question, that it is really very difficult, we have a huge problem with screenwriters, with scripts, that is ...

E. Afanasyeva- Despite the fact that there are a lot of film schools and everything...

D. Lavrova- Despite this, absolutely, even I would say that sometimes this is not always good. There are a million wonderful ideas, but very few people know and know what to do with them next...

E. Afanasyeva- Nobody knows how to build...

D. Lavrova- Line it up, yes...

E. Afanasyeva- The dramatic construction is correct.

D. Lavrova- Yes, and especially the finale, we always have a problem with the finale, so, of course, it’s easier for us to work with an already developed design, especially since there is a completely different production cycle, and they write for a long time, and a lot of people write, so well, honestly to say, it’s simpler, simpler and more comfortable for production if someone can send a good script...

E. Afanasyeva- Tell me right away where to send it.

D. Lavrova― To the address of “Star Media”, we are waiting, we are really looking forward to good developments, but not just an idea, as an idea, but let’s film about, I don’t know, about a pink bear that got lost somewhere, well, let’s just what next?

F. Brusnikin- What’s happening to him...

D. Lavrova- What’s happening to him...

F. Brusnikin- With this bear.

A. Banshchikova- And why did he get lost?

F. Brusnikin- Well, we film, we sometimes film...

E. Afanasyeva- Philip Brusnikin, yes.

F. Brusnikin- And we have original stories...

E. Afanasyeva- No, well, “The Heart of Parma” is much more original...

D. Lavrova- This is Alexey Ivanov...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes, that’s what I’m saying, it’s much more original...

D. Lavrova- Well, it’s also like, it’s not like someone came up with it, it’s a novel.

F. Brusnikin- Yes, and this happens often, but there’s just not that much of it. good stuff, but it exists, why, there are good screenwriters, authors, now the younger generation is very happy sometimes, well, even watching what is happening in the theater, there are just a lot of young wonderful authors with very good material.

E. Afanasyeva- Well, let's hope that they will grow...

F. Brusnikin- It should, of course...

E. Afanasyeva- They will also come to TV series. Anh, as far as I understand, again, a video fragment of the “Let Them Talk” program, your older children, sons, watch the series and very much protected you from that particular criminal investigation officer...

A. Banshchikova- Yes, they are actually in love with “Bhound”, they never watch anything, none of these kind of films, but for some reason they fell in love with them, and their whole school watches them, and I there…

E. Afanasyeva- Because mom plays or do they like something else?

A. Banshchikova- No, not because mom, that’s exactly the point, that they just like “Bhound”, and they all delve into all these plots, and Misha is there all the time, for example, with Sasha, watching, don’t distract there, they they follow the plot, they are interested, and they somehow, somehow this has become such a children’s series, in a sense, also a series, because somehow they respect the school there, in general, and defended me, yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Philip, is your eldest son watching or not yet...

F. Brusnikin- Looks, looks, looks at “Bhound”...

D. Lavrova- So he filmed there.

F. Brusnikin- He even filmed...

E. Afanasyeva- So, where he was filmed, we already knew about Anya’s child, and where your son was filmed...

A. Banshchikova- They are all together...

F. Brusnikin- They are together with Anin...

E. Afanasyeva- Yes?

F. Brusnikin- Yes, they were looking for a cat, looking for a cat...

E. Afanasyeva- It's clear.

F. Brusnikin- And they exchanged it for candy, in general, the whole thing.

E. Afanasyeva- It's clear…

F. Brusnikin- No, he watches and, well, of course, now, since he started going to school, he usually doesn’t have time to watch it to the end, because they put him to bed, but...

A. Banshchikova- One mother recently wrote me a funny letter too, she wrote that this is a nightmare, we can’t, we only have bad grades, because how can you do your homework at all, because neither my son does it, nor I can help...

E. Afanasyeva- That’s why they left one episode each, and not two...

D. Lavrova- Yes, exactly, precisely because of this.

E. Afanasyeva- It all doesn’t end at half past 12 now.

F. Brusnikin- Yes.

E. Afanasyeva- Well, our broadcast has quickly come to an end, we were talking about the series “Bhound”, those who love it have 4 more episodes ahead this week, and we really hope that despite such a tragic irreparable loss of the director , Dmitry Brusnikin, you will still continue your work, and this will be in memory of him, of your father, Philip.

Elena Afanasyeva, goodbye, all the best! Thank you, Daria Lavrova...

D. Lavrova- Thanks a lot!

E. Afanasyeva― Thanks to Anya Banshchikova and Philip Brusnikin...

F. Brusnikin- Thanks a lot!

E. Afanasyeva- Goodbye!

“Masha is a fashionista and loves to look in the mirror. Very sociable, restless and a party girl. In general, she’s such a fire girl - she’s all about me.” Photo: Philip Goncharov

In my opinion, it’s so boring to be beautiful, important and serious all the time. You have to treat yourself with humor. Hollywood actresses are not afraid to appear fat in some role, like Renee Zellweger in films about Bridget Jones, or scary ones like Charlize Theron in "Monster". With us beautiful actress basically wants to be beautiful and only beautiful. Once I was sitting in the dressing room with one of my actress friends. In between, she told me that one of our colleagues got eyelash extensions. Like a fool, I ask: “And if she has to play some scary heroine, then how about removing eyelashes?” The friend laughed: “What are you doing, Banshchikova?!” She doesn’t play ugly people...” It seems to me that everyone is already tired of these glamorous beauties, they want to see normal people in the movies.

- Do you have any worries about age?

No! And this can be seen in “Bhound” - I don’t worry about my appearance, I’m not afraid of natural age-related changes and I don’t do anything “like that” to myself. When I have time, I do yoga, go to the bathhouse and do Thai massage - brutal, when they walk all over me. This really helps to recover quickly. And I have neither the time nor the desire for all kinds of injections - I’m a terrible coward, why inject myself with something unnecessarily?! All these “miracle injections” are just kind of terrible. As I said Sophia Loren: “Don’t touch my wrinkles, they’re too hard for me.” It seems to me that lifts and injections make women look not younger, but only stupider. I recently saw a post by actress Ksyusha Lavrova-Glinka. I don’t remember the exact words, but the meaning is: “I’m 40 years old, I have three children, I’m an actress, and I’m still wow! And bravo to me!” And really - bravo, I share it one hundred percent! Only I’m not 40 years old, but 43 years old... Maybe I’m not afraid of age because, as they say, I character actress. And, accordingly, I only gain in the profession with age. I have something to tell about women with an interesting destiny.

- Yes, your heroine in “Bhound” has an outstanding character. How dashingly she commands her male subordinates...

Yes, she does it great! And if in the first season her subordinates tried to fight her, to somehow resist her, then they later gave up, became friends with her, and practically “lay down under her.” Although these are not shy guys - “sledaki”! In general, the situation seems very urgent to me. There are plenty of women like this! I don't mean a specific profession or position. But women really now have to command, or rather, take on everything, because men have become somewhat lethargic. There are, of course, exceptions. My husband (lawyer Vsevolod Shakhanov - Ed.), for example. And among my friends there are also real men. But, unfortunately, there are very few of them. It's getting ridiculous. Recently a sofa was brought to the set: they wanted to put it in my rest room.