Why Bezrukov’s new lover refuses to comment on his personal life. — When was the last time you were on vacation? "Theater is a tough business"

A film in which the surnames of director Anna Matison and actor Sergei Bezrukov will appear side by side in the credits for the first time, Sergei and Anna told 7 Days magazine about their first meeting, about their trip to Baikal to film the film “Milky Way,” about the appearance of a young actress with the surname Bezrukova in Russian cinema, and also shared their plans for the future.

- Sergey, in Anna Matison’s film “The Milky Way” you played the main role. How did you meet?

Bezrukov: In February of this year, my long-time friend, producer Alexey Kublitsky, with whom we worked together on the film “Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive,” he suggested reading Anna Matison’s script. I liked it, very sincere, unlike standard New Year's films. There was something from the auteur cinema that I always wanted to act in. But for some reason I had never been offered this before. Maybe they're afraid of me. They probably think Sergey Bezrukov, then he only stars in blockbusters. “Okay,” I said to Alexei. “Let’s meet with the director, get to know each other, and discuss.”

- Were you surprised when you found out that the scriptwriter and director was a young woman?

Bezrukov: My very first director in 1993 in the film “Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle” was Karine Foliyants. I have no prejudices in this regard at all; I don’t think that films should be made exclusively by men.

- Does the age of the director matter?

Bezrukov: None! I starred with Alyosha Sidorov in “Brigade”. This was his first film work. It would seem that this is a very complex story, a gangster saga that can only be completed by an experienced person who has already gone through fire and water. But Lesha is from Severodvinsk; by that time, despite his very young age, he had probably experienced a lot in life. And he made an amazing big movie. And Anya, in comparison with him then, is already an experienced director, she has several documentaries and the film “Satisfaction” with Evgeniy Grishkovets. This picture made a very strong impression on me at one time.

- Anna, did it help that Bezrukov liked your first film?

Mathison: I didn’t know whether Sergei had seen “Satisfaction” or not. Therefore, there was some uncertainty. Whatever they say, at the first meeting there is almost always some bias towards the female director. Therefore, I always prefer that they first look at my work, and then get acquainted with it in person. I remember well - on the day when Sergei made an appointment for us at the Moscow Provincial Theater, the same producer Alexei Kublitsky and I were first at other negotiations. And between these meetings, I asked Alexey to take me home to change clothes. He asked: “Why? You look good". And I just wanted to avoid attracting attention as much as possible.

Sergey, at what point did the situation with birch trees get out of control?

Well look. 2003, TV series “Plot”, where I played a good policeman. There's the title song "Birches". It became very popular, and to this day, wherever I perform, “Birches” is sung by the entire audience. 2005, Yesenin comes out. Its symbol is birch trees. And everything went from then on. From KVN to KVN. But I don't feel sorry, so be it.

Do you really love all this primordial aesthetic that much?

I love Russian culture. When it is brought to the point of kitsch - a birch tree, a balalaika, a bear - it is too much. And, frankly, this is already making me sick.

Nevertheless, in the mass consciousness you are the most Russian actor. Duty of the Russian soul: passions, throwing, spree.

There are passions and tossing. It's worse with drinking, I don't drink.

I just don’t really like myself when I’m drunk: I stop being witty and charming.

Strange! For me it's the other way around!

But I can’t joke, the quickness of the mind is lost, you become viscous, you don’t have time to react. I can play a drunk and be funny, but in reality I become unfunny. When people ask me why, I usually answer that everything has already been drunk before me. In my father’s time, the acting fraternity had a phrase: “You don’t drink, you’re not a genius.” Therefore, everyone drank; the WTO restaurant was a cult place.

Strange feeling: as if the directors are afraid of me

My father gave me a lot. For all my skepticism about that era - the people of that era, the generation of our fathers, I have great respect. My father raised me by example. This, of course, is a banality, but personal example is the main principle of education. If you want to stop your son from smoking, don’t smoke yourself. If you want him to play sports, do it yourself.

By the way, are you in good shape now? How many pull-ups can you do?

In good shape, I think. I do boxing, and I can do twelve pull-ups.

Boxing? Did you fight?

No, somehow God was merciful, he never gave me such a situation. I would probably lash out at some media representatives; sometimes I want to call them out and actually smack them in the face. But we have to entrust this matter to lawyers.

You mentioned that you are skeptical about that era. What was wrong with her? And many people don’t really understand now.

The amount of hypocrisy and lies that there was. An incredible number of prohibitions. Herman's film "Road Check" lay on the shelf for twenty years! They say “it’s a shame for the state,” but here it’s a shame for the people. The people believed. Despite the fact that there was more morality among the people, there was a complete lack of morality at the top. The USSR is a country that was created on blood. Right now we are staging a play based on Astafiev’s story “The Jolly Soldier”. Everything that is said about the war goes against the general opinion even now. Astafiev had a different attitude towards Zhukov and what was happening. What a war everyone waged against the same Russian soldier, who won despite the fact that they did not care about any life. And then, after the war, how many people were destroyed, the same soldiers, ordinary people. Monstrous attitude towards ordinary people!

It's clear. Let's talk about Vysotsky. Were you ready for such a reaction, for all these jokes?

Let them joke! A person must somehow pour out an abundance of love and happiness. On the contrary, I was prepared for the fact that the secret would not be revealed and no one would say anything. I advocated for this myself. They didn’t recognize me while I was filming in makeup. On the call sheet I was listed as “Vitalevich”, and a non-disclosure agreement was signed with everyone. This is actually an amazing story. I read in the newspaper that a shoot was being prepared, that Mashkov was auditioning, and I thought: it’s a pity that they didn’t offer me... but thank God. By that time I had already played Yeshua, then Yesenin and Pushkin. The films were shot seven years apart, but were released one after the other. I understood that in this way I was adding more jokes to myself. I think if Vysotsky were also present now, then that’s it, a diagnosis. Megalomania. And then the producer calls and offers! I say: no, under no circumstances, I will simply be crucified in advance. A year passes. During this time, the director changed and a lot of actors auditioned. I meet with the producer, he tells me: “Still, read the script.” Okay, I'm reading. Boldly, of course, but I said no. He shows me my portrait, modified on the computer, and I see Vysotsky’s face. The producer persuaded me to just try, just for myself, they say, we won’t show it to anyone. They do my makeup, and at night Ernst calls and says: “You are approved.” What could I say? I really wanted to play this role, but I resisted with all my might. And here I am presented with a fact.

How long did it take to apply the makeup?

Three and a half hours. We tried nine tests of the mask, but nothing worked. At first it was more similar, but not as elastic. She doesn’t breathe, after half an hour processes begin on the skin. And the fact that I worked for nineteen hours wearing a mask later caused big health problems. This was wrong. But no one has done this before. I associated myself with Gagarin, whom for some reason I haven’t played yet. It was as if they had released me into space and were checking: how are you, are you still alive? Besides, it was the summer of 2010: smoke, heat... And I, like a soldier, endured and shouted from the inside: everything is fine, we’re working! I also had my back adjusted every time after a shoot, because I had to keep my shoulders inward - according to Vysotsky’s plastic surgery. He had inward shoulders, a boxer's figure. At the end of the day, my back just broke. I'm not complaining, I would just like to make it clear that all this was at great risk, with great physical problems.

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Your films are more commercial. Why are you not seen in auteur films?

Honestly, it's very disappointing. I am ready and open, sometimes I acted absolutely free, for an idea. I had one original film about ten years ago - “City Without Sun”, where I played an artist. It’s a strange feeling: as if the directors are afraid. After the “Brigade” they were afraid - even ordinary people thought that I was a bandit. And this glossy image of a screen star is harming me. It's better now. Work is underway on the film “After You,” where I play a ballet dancer. This is an absolutely original project.

What if Zvyagintsev called you? Something like Leviathan?

It's not about a specific director. If I liked the script, I would be happy to star with Zvyagintsev, he is a great master. For me, the main thing is an interesting story. And then it doesn’t matter whether the director is a seasoned director or a beginner. I sometimes refused offers from very famous directors just because I didn’t like the script.

If the program “Dolls”, which you voiced, was now being revived, and they called you back?

Again a parody... No, this is a passed stage. I was too young to understand what was happening in the country. Now everything has become much more complicated and scary. Public opinion is heated to such extremes that there is no time for jokes. Here you have to watch your every word, because any phrase can be reinterpreted, inverted in meaning and used not only against you, but also against your colleagues. Nowadays, one word can quarrel a huge number of people so that they stop greeting each other. Elementary claims to creativity can be interpreted as a political statement. But I cannot afford this, because now I am responsible not only for myself, but also for the huge team of the Provincial Theater.

Yes, you have no less than your own theater. Any achievements?

Come and see for yourself. Let me just say that we are only two years old, but we already have a fairly powerful repertoire, fifteen new productions. And not only for adults, there are wonderful performances for children too.

In "Milky Way" I played an ordinary person for the first time!

On January 1, the film “Milky Way” directed by Anna Matison is released. Should I go?

Undoubtedly. This is a family New Year's movie, a comedy, but not one where you are ashamed of both the jokes and the laughing audience. This is a deeper story. Here I played a common man for the first time. This is the case with loans, divorces, throwing around. Many men will definitely recognize themselves, their problems, and maybe even see their solution. But the genre is still a comedy. On New Year's Eve, a husband and wife accidentally read notes with wishes that need to be burned...

Do you experience these typical problems yourself? For example, did you have a midlife crisis?

My life has changed dramatically this year, as everyone has already written about. Maybe this is the same crisis. Without going into details, I admit: it was an emotionally very difficult year.

Without going into details, tell me: what to do in a situation when you live with one woman for many years, and then suddenly realize that you love another?

You need to be honest with yourself. And remain human. That is, to avoid bloodshed. At least try to do it. And if you need help, then help. It is mandatory to behave with dignity in any situation: you are a man. There is definitely no need to be afraid of public opinion. A man at forty, having achieved a certain position in society, is afraid of losing something, of being misunderstood, of becoming the hero of a joke. At forty years old, it’s scary to lose everything, to start over, because you may no longer take off. I believe that at any age there is no need to be afraid of this. If you're not lying to yourself, then don't be afraid. After all, life really is short. My father once told me: “Seryozha, how quickly it passes! You can not even imagine! It was all yesterday, but now you are seventy years old. Like one day!” There is no need to be afraid of anything in this life. Live! And don't be afraid of this life!

You are a believer. And you probably consider yourself a sinner.

I think that any person...

Great! Here I have written out a list of mortal sins, let’s go through it for the purpose of repentance. Pride?

Happens. Sinful. Of course... It's professional. When you feel bad, it happens that you go on the Internet to read good things about yourself. To feel needed at least by your fans. Run away there.

Write it like this: I just found my director - that’s all. It happens that an actor lives his whole life and, unfortunately, never finds him. That’s what happened to me at the age of 42... Moreover, Anya is not just a director, she is also a screenwriter - she combines everything! An amazing sense of proportion, taste and an absolute sense of truth.

The new joint film was not just magic, connecting the creative and personal paths of Anna and Sergei, it also revealed their attitude to divorce and to love in general. As Mathieson admitted, sometimes divorce is what is needed to save a relationship and not traumatize children, if any. But Bezrukov expressed a slightly different point of view, especially.

I'll just keep quiet here. Because everyone has their own experience. It's different for everyone. Our picture is about finding happiness. Whether it will work out or not. Everyone wants love. Someone, it turns out, has it. And for some, it happens that they no longer have it. And then we need to look for her. The film is really about finding love. And for everyone, I think, there will be their own answer in this picture.

And if, without hiding herself behind seven locks, then Anna Matison admitted that for her relationships are purely personal, which in no case is brought into the public sphere. The director hopes that fans will be interested in her work first and foremost, and not in her personal life.

"The owner is alone in the theater. It's me"

Three years ago, Sergei Bezrukov took over the theater in Kuzminki under the disastrous name “Regional House of Arts,” where a theatergoer had never set foot before. Many then felt sorry for the popular actor, being sure that he would ruin himself and would not help the disastrous cause. But three seasons have passed, and the Provincial Theater actively and firmly began to win its place on the theater map of Moscow: nine premieres per season, tours and even scientific conferences. We talked with Sergei Bezrukov about Vladimir Vysotsky, our own discoveries, the fear of officials and the sleepless nights of the young father immediately after the premiere of the play “Vysotsky. The birth of a legend."

The play “Vysotsky. The birth of a legend." Photo: Anna Koonen

“In Bukhara, Vysotsky really died - it was clinical death”

Sergey, why did you decide to stage a play about Vladimir Vysotsky in your Gubernsky? The premiere has just been a success. So were you dissatisfied with the film “Thank You for Being Alive”?

In no case. I was under the spell of the film, where there was a secret, and I was sure that the secret would not be revealed to the end - the image of the artist should not distract from the screen image of Vladimir Semenovich. With all the pros and cons, to my great regret, many did not see the most important thing in the film beyond the main theme of illness - the very “Prayer” that I now read in the play. The monologue was written by Nikita Vysotsky: “Let them all be well, who is alive and who is not... Maybe I didn’t die today in order to have time to say: “How I love you all.” Maybe in order for this performance to be born, the film took place.

The idea in the play is so obvious and understandable - the resurrection of the poet Vysotsky. After all, he doesn’t write anything for six months, before his trip to Uzbekistan, to Bukhara, devoured by illness, he is in such a human trap. He wants to break free, but he can’t and pushes himself: “Okay, five concerts in Uzbekistan.” That is, screw yourself up and go into a dive. In Bukhara he really died - it was clinical death. But a miracle - his heart was started.

The play “Vysotsky” touches on two important topics directly related to the image of the poet - freedom and censorship. Censorship broke out among theater workers like a fever: “Guard, censorship!” So does she exist or not?

She didn’t touch me and God forbid that she touched me. I don’t feel any harassment, although I understand perfectly well that censorship as such does not exist, but there is an opinion. Moreover, the opinion was sometimes expressed by lower-ranking officials. Locally, people blow on the water according to the principle “no matter what happens.” This is the same thing from Chekhov’s story “The Man in a Case” - “no matter what happens” - and it works... Since Soviet times, innate fear has forced local officials to commit inappropriate actions.

And of course there is no Soviet censorship that we talk about in our play. Now times are free - and theaters that position themselves as theaters of freedom feel excellent, self-realize in creativity as they want and do not kick anyone out of work.

Or maybe the whole point is in the nature of our psychology - to always be dissatisfied with the authorities: it strangles, it doesn’t - it’s all the same.

The topic is so complex, I don’t presume to judge. Each artist must be considered individually, and there is even less need to analyze the artist’s character, because artistic people are too emotional and sometimes even very touchy. Therefore, we must be careful with us. By the way, I remember there was an incident in my life: at one event - I won’t say where it took place - people came up to me and asked me not to read Vysotsky’s poem “My Black Man in a Gray Suit.”

- And what did you answer them?

I said, "No, I'll do what I want." - "Maybe we should not?" - they said uncertainly. “No, it’s necessary.” And there were no sanctions, nothing terrible happened, but it was funny and strange. First of all, there is the artist’s conscience, which allows or does not allow him to do something, his own moral barrier, which I will never step over. They say: “Old man, you will make money from this.” - “I will never do this.” - “This will bring you success, scandalous fame.” - “I will never do this.”

- Can you clarify what exactly Sergei Bezrukov will never do?

Well, for now, I allow myself the topics that we touch on in our performances. Let’s say, “trench truth” in the play “The Jolly Soldier” based on Astafiev, and he speaks very unflatteringly about Zhukov and other military leaders, but, oddly enough, the performance turned out to be pacifist.

I probably wouldn’t have sunk into total blackness. I believe that in our time we need to show white too. They say: “Stop it, we are all black.” - “But still, if you look closely, you can’t help but see white...” These are just different approaches to that same education... Listen, the theater was created for this purpose, to talk about the life of the human spirit, about those very common truths that the greats spoke about masters, and we, young people, even at 43, look at them. Why do I go on stage? For what? You can work on denial, but today there is too much denial, negativity both on the Internet and in relationships between people. On the contrary, you need to lift, not push away. You can, of course, provoke the crawler to leave, to shout “shame” - and get a scandal. But it's not for me.

Performance "The Dream of Reason". Photo: Svetlana Selezneva

“I can be a despot, but not a tyrant”

- For three years now you have been the head of the theater, that is, the artistic director. Three main discoveries you made for yourself?

First, it’s hard to work in a large team. The second is to be a democrat and a dictator at the same time, because one is impossible. Tolerance is also not an option. Third, worry about people you didn’t know before, as if you were yourself. And they are artists, they need roles. In “Snuffbox” I looked at Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov in exactly the same way: “When will you let me play Khlestakov?” And Oleg Pavlovich: “Right now, right now, Seryoga, wait, we’re looking for a director.” So I waited and waited and as a result I played Chichikov in Dead Souls. I used all my plastics there, but this is not Khlestakov.

I understand that Karina Andolenko wonderfully played Cheboksarova in the play “I Found a Scythe on a Stone” or Roxana in “Cyrano”, but she needs something new that she herself should be interested in and so that the performance would attract a full audience. My artists are wonderful - the same Karina, Anton Khabarov, Galina Bokashevskaya, they act in a lot, they are loved. They may not be considered stars of the first magnitude, but I would like to make sure that they become one, so that the audience goes to see them.

- Like Bezrukov, right?

Thank you for your trust. As before, and especially now, the viewer goes for the names or brands that the Fomenko or Zhenovach theaters have. And Gubernsky is three years old, but we already have many fans. And do you know why? They see that they are not being deceived here: what is written on the poster will be so. If it says “children's blockbuster” “Treasure Island”, then they will watch the blockbuster, knowing the value of this definition. In order to attract the viewer to the theater, you need to try, knowing that art is a big deception. But doing magic tricks is dangerous, you have to tell the truth.

- Can an artist come to your office? Talk, complain about life?

Maybe. But there is a moment of subordination - although I don’t like this military word - so as not to turn our relations into familiarity. Because the director is still the commander in chief. And when you go into battle, into an attack, everyone must listen to you. And if you are so democratic and familiar, then there will be half of those who will sit down to smoke: “Come on, come on. If you get there, then we’ll catch up.” Sometimes you need to bark so that everyone stands up and goes.

-Have you learned to bark?

I could do that. I can bark, I can be a despot, but not a tyrant. And at the same time, be absolutely gentle and kind, sincerely treat each of the artists and put yourself in their position.

Sometimes I put them in impossible conditions: they produce three performances at the same time - and I say: “You were all crying that there was no work? Now you will have it over the edge. But don’t cry afterwards.” They howl, but they work very hard.

- Are you disappointed in the actors, have you re-evaluated them?

No, because I know the nature of the profession - I am an artist myself. So look at the artist from the outside, like in a mirror: what do you remove first of all from yourself? A certain whim, dissatisfaction, self-examination, and this hinders the director in the artist: self-examination will not allow him to act, let’s get on with the job. I learned this from my father, who worked with me as a teacher. Then at Tabakov's.

- An act that you did not expect from yourself?

I did not expect that I would be able to unite two theaters. I wouldn’t wish what I experienced during the reorganization on my enemy. And this was the Moscow Regional House of Arts (MODI), and there was the Chamber Theater and Ostrovsky’s regional drama. I ask: “Where is the theater? What to lead? And I unite the theaters, come up with a name - Gubernsky. But we need to unite in creativity, as Rimas Tuminas did in his time at Vakhtangov. Then I chose Ostrovsky, staged the play “I Found a Scythe on a Stone,” and artists from different theaters performed in it. He also came up with episodic roles that the playwright does not have, in order to occupy more artists. And I will never forget handing over the performance to “moms/fathers” when the artists arrived. I saw “kind, kind looks” in the hall, and they read: come on, do it. And then I saw their faces after the run - they looked into their eyes: “Can I go out a little? In a small role? We had to win. I proved it with deeds.

- Did the artists who were dissatisfied with you or whom you fired write about you?

There is a stumbling block here - open-ended contracts, and that's all - you cannot fire a person, even if he is unsuitable. But for some time now we have been concluding effective contracts, according to which we have the right to pay an artist who is not engaged or little involved in performances as much as he has earned. At least it's honest. This does not apply to popular artists, I value them.

- Listen, do you have such a healthy psyche?

I'm mobilizing. You know me: I am a person who loves theater endlessly, a fan. If necessary, as a teacher, I will tell, show, and play.

- What is your relationship with Governor Vorobyov?

Wonderful. I am glad that there is and always has been support from Andrei Yuryevich. Now we have acquired the status of a center for the development of theatrical art.

Why weren’t you at the historic event - the opening of the new Tabakerka building on Sukharevskaya Square? This surprised a lot of people.

I warned a month in advance that I wouldn’t be able to attend the shooting. But he came up with a video greeting: it’s called “Samuil Yakovlevich is almost Marshak.” Housewarming." For me it was not just a congratulations-unsubscribe. Anya (Anna Matison - wife, screenwriter, director. - M.R.) filmed it right here in the rep room, edited it, worked with computer graphics. It's on YouTube. We agreed with Tabakerka that the congratulations would be displayed on the screen, I forwarded them, and they confirmed to me that they had received them, but for some reason they didn’t show them. Then Marina Zudina showed it to Oleg Pavlovich, and he said: “Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.”

With his wife Anna Matison. Photo: bogomaz.ru

“The owner is alone in the theater. It's me"

Due to the fact that you now have your own film production company, and you are interested in promoting it, will you refuse to act in other studios?

No, I agree. So I starred with the young director Alexander Molochnikov - “Myths of Moscow” - and there I played an interesting and funny role. The best promotion for a company is to produce a good product so that people start talking about you. I have already watched the material for our third film - “Rogues”, it turns out to be a wonderful and high-quality film, Anya, as a director, finished it in November. There I play the father of the main character and his own uncle, two antipodes. And in the episodes - artists of the Provincial Theater.

- Do you place your artists in films?

I'm setting it up. The first such series was “Temporarily Unavailable” - there are 23 of my artists. Then there was the film “After You” - it’s all ours too.

- Cool family business: own company, wife - screenwriter, director. You are a producer.

I won’t talk about cool business - for now there are only investments.

-Are you investing yours?

Sometimes our own. There are applications for scripts and TV series, it is important that without my participation. But several interesting scripts have been written for me, and I can say that if there were no Ani, there would be no “Milky Way” or “After You”. People were expecting “Yolok”, but everything there was very subtle, warm, sincere and truthful. The Japanese are now renting the film “After You,” and it is the only one they rented from the Tokyo Film Festival (it will also be released in Russia in mid-March).

- Your wife Anya Matison is a screenwriter, playwright, and director. Do you have any fears that you might become the owner of the theatre?

There is only one owner in this theater, it’s me. I think that's how it should be. There are assistants to the owner - director, lawyers, manager. the troupe, including the troupe itself. I have never developed nepotism in the theater... There is already enough slander. Everything should be according to the talent: if the play is talented, I will take it one hundred percent and not watch it, whether it is a relative or an unknown author.

You are an artistic director, you have a foundation, now your own film company, performances and creative evenings. I'm not asking how rich you are...

I don't have any business, oil wells. There are either sponsors who love and respect me, and there is my demand, which I fuel with my work. Sometimes I really want to earn money like in business, but I don’t understand much about it.

- But how much are you enough - that’s the question?

I'm trying to combine it somehow. I can do it. Life and art should not crowd out each other, everything should be in harmony. And since Anya and I are creative people, I think everything worked out here.

With daughter.

I will never leave my children - they are all mine

You, an artist closed to publicity, suddenly appeared on Instagram, and the whole country watched Sergei Bezrukov with his newborn daughter in his arms. What happened that you went online?

-Are you driving yourself?

But the Internet today is such a clearing for mutual grievances and aggression. People are accustomed to a kind of impunity, which gives rise to a desire to offend: I pour it out, but nothing will happen to me. They write words, but words are worthless. There is a lot of negativity, but there is also a lot of good - this is what to live with: you want to live in negativity, live there, but it is destructive.

Well, yes, I carefully posted photos on Instagram... I just shared my joy that I am a dad like everyone else. And also with sleepless nights, motion sickness, lack of sleep.

- Do you have a nanny?

No, we decided to do it ourselves. True, there are grandparents - they help. Increased attention to children, especially public people, spoils their characters. As a rule, famous people try to hide their children and send them somewhere to study, so as not to attract undue attention to them. Now we were in Germany on tour, we went into a restaurant: the waiters and visitors didn’t know who I was, but I saw how much sincere participation I saw, how they admired Masha, asked what to bring. In our country, they behave this way only with the child of a famous person, and another child nearby will be immediately passed by. This is what Anya and I are afraid of.

Therefore, less attention to my children, because they will compare, lisp, and the world is not so simple - there is a lot of hypocrisy. When a child is brought up in adoration - look, I just walk in, and everyone already loves me, I can do anything - this gives rise to depravity of character. No, you will achieve everything in life yourself, your parents will help, but achieve everything yourself. My father helped me when he saw acting talent in me, but my father was not at the level of fame to place me in the Moscow Art Theater School.

- But your other children... Do you communicate with them?

Yes, I have children. I communicate, help and will help them.

You don't disown other children. And these words inspire respect. Garry Kasparov publicly renounced his daughter - I will never forget his interview - and lost a huge electorate of fans.

I will refrain from commenting. I will never leave my children - they are all mine. But talking and spreading about personal things means harming children. Not for me - for them. We need to protect it, so I try to be closed to the press on a personal level: someone is making money from this. They say about me: he quarrels with everyone. It's not true, I'm just defending the right to my privacy.

When Masha was born, I took maternity leave, specially left filming and was with Anya for a month and a half. There were sleepless nights: then I said that I was leaving maternity leave, and they immediately wrote: “Bezrukov abandoned his wife and little child.” So how? It is impossible to sue for a title, but courts are a separate issue for us.

There are happy families where they are friends with third wives, with fifth husbands, raising children together... Ideal harmony of the world.

I also strive for harmony, and in principle everything works out great for me.

Theatre, like other arts, must be practiced in a good mood. “Theater is a fun thing,” said Oleg Pavlovich. And I think that during his life he had read a lot about himself, but he was so strong that he ignored a lot of things, that’s all. I think you just have to be able to let things pass by. But sensible criticism is another matter. After all, people involved in theater are mostly sincere, so help them, don’t humiliate them.

Antenna-Telesem, 11/28/2018

Material on the publication's website The end of the year for the couple is filled with pleasant expectations - recently they became parents for the second time, and on December 6 their third joint film, “The Reserve,” will be released. “The Reserve” is a film adaptation of the story of the same name by Sergei Dovlatov, but the action is moved to modern times, and the main character is not the writer Boris, but the musician Konstantin (Sergei Bezrukov). His car...

Our radio, 10/5/2018

Delighting your listeners is the most important mission of OUR Radio! Today, October 5, 2018, an absolutely fantastic guest arrived on the air of the morning show “Lifts” - People’s Artist of Russia Sergei Bezrukov! Recently, the artist’s boundless talent has rushed into a new, but, according to Sergei himself, expected creative side: Bezrukov tried himself as a rock artist...

TV channel Mir24, Cult personalities, 10/4/2018

People's Artist of Russia Sergei Bezrukov, in an exclusive interview with the “Cult Personalities” program on the MIR TV channel, told what the viewer likes today, why the film based on the story by Sergei Dovlatov “Reserve” changed its name, how the Provincial Theater headed by him will celebrate its fifth anniversary, and also who he wanted become in childhood. - This year the Provincial Theater is five years old. How will you celebrate...

Woman.ru, 06.17.2018

In an interview with Woman.ru, spouses Sergei Bezrukov and Anna Matison talked about the difficulties of working in cinema, their new film “Reserve”, as well as about children, love and their more than active lifestyle. A week ago, the country's main film festival, Kinotavr, ended. The film “Reserve” directed by Anna Matison took part in the main film competition. The main role in the film was played by Sergei Bez...

Lyubov Egorova, Metro, 06/17/2018

Sergei Bezrukov and Anna Matison presented at Kinotavr the film “Reserve” based on the story of the same name by Sergei Dovlatov, which will be released in wide release on December 6. Alas, the film was left without awards. Bezrukov not only played the main role, but also acted as the producer of the film. The Metro newspaper spoke with the actor about how difficult it was to film the film without government support. It's a shame that you...

Olga Galitskaya, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 05/28/2018

Anna Matison's new film, where Sergei Bezrukov played the main role, has changed its name, and on June 9, in the Kinotavr competition, instead of the previously announced film "Pushkin. Whiskey. Rock and Roll", "Reserve" will appear. What is correct: this is Dovlatov, it was his story of the same name that was transferred to the screen - albeit in a new way. Sergei Bezrukov, artist and producer, told RG about the upcoming premiere. Fo...

Interfax, 11/17/2017

Material on the website of the publication The actor told how much his image in the released comedy “Myths” corresponds to the reality of Moscow. November 17. INTERFAX.RU - Russian actor, director, screenwriter, artistic director of the Moscow Provincial Theater Sergei Bezrukov played one of the key roles in the comedy “Myths” by Alexander Molochnikov. The film tells about the heroes of secular Moscow, including...