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In my fantasies, I made my film debut with a scoop and a bonnet: I’m not five years old, and when I see the camera, I shout: “Mom, have they filmed me yet? Will I be in the movie? Therefore, when at the beginning of 2021 I was called to the mini-series "Ballet" for the role of the leading ballerina Sofia, I thought that the fairy tale had become a reality: Bondarchuk, Dapkunaite, Malkovich (!) And only twenty shooting days during my vacation. "Of course yes!" I answered.

And here comes the night shift, and we, the ballet dancers, explain to the director's assistant: it would be better for us to dance in the frame first, and then to walk. But everything was adjusted to some actor and it turned out the other way around: we walked at night, and in the morning we had to dance. Imagine: the final double, a million people on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theatre, I do the final entrecha-katra, and on the last jump - wow! It felt like I was hit in the leg with a golf club. "I tore something" - food. “No,” everyone around convinces, “it’s just brought down.” But I step on my foot, and it gives way - the calf is torn. nine0003

I do the final entreche-katra, and on the last jump - wow! It felt like I was hit in the leg with a golf club.

The impression that you restored yourself not only with medicines, but also with the power of thought.

I just decided that this is from the ballet - not from the series, but from the stage! - I don't want to leave. Eifman called - he put on "The Seagull", realized that he needed me, and asked if I could recover. "I'll try," I say. And I think to myself: "I have to." At that moment, I also had not signed a contract with the theater! nine0003

An interesting movie!

When I started filming in Ballet, Eifman said: "Give it up." “Boris Yakovlevich, I thought you would be proud! The artists of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky auditioned, and from the entire casting they chose me! Only 20 shooting days, none of our performances will suffer!” But he was adamant: "Until you refuse, I will not sign a contract with you." Only later did I find out that Eifman was very worried when he found out that I had been injured. I even found the number of Fyodor Bondarchuk, called him: “You broke my ballerina!” And he asked: “Mary? Who is Mary? nine0003

But everything worked out with The Seagull: you danced Arkadin, you received a theater award for the part. What do you say, what is your role?

I will say that this role meant a lot to me. First, it was a return to the theater. I left with a torn leg that refused to work: as I later found out, bets were placed in the theater on whether I could lose weight, get in shape and dance. Secondly, I dreamed of Arkadina: bright, chic, dominant - mine! After all, I once danced Zarechnaya and its character: to leave, to surrender is not my story at all. It would seem, happiness! And now Boris Yakovlevich introduces me to the staged performance - and I understand: Arkadina in the new "The Seagull" is a supporting party. nine0003

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Hitchcock suspense.

And for me, the full Cronenberg. And now Eifman comes up to me after the rehearsal, praises: “You learned everything so quickly, well done.” And my tears begin to flow.

— What is it? I do not understand!

- Boris Yakovlevich, I so dreamed of this role! And I can't even dance here! nine0003

The next day he returned to the rehearsal room in a bad mood: “It turns out that I can't stand these female tears of yours at all. I didn’t sleep all night thinking about what to do with the role. Let's start your monologue!"

Somerset Maugham!

But the role turned out great!

And what, what is the fate of the series "Ballet"?

Shooting was postponed all the time: to August, to September, then to October-November. During all this time I had two shooting days. And when at the beginning of 2022 they wrote to me, saying, continue, I refused: “I have neither the opportunity nor the desire. After the injury, you didn’t help me in any way, you didn’t fulfill our agreements.” Later I was informed that all the scenes with Dapkunaite were re-shot without me. And they added: “We also want to insert into the final cut the moment when you are torn! It will be great, you broke - and therefore could not participate. I really don't want this footage to come out. nine0003

And you ended up in the Monastery. How?

— Hello, I'm Alexander Molochnikov, have you heard about me?

— Yes, of course, you are a friend of Catherine Barnabas.

That's how it turned out. But Alexander remembered this conversation for a long time. (Director Molochnikov left Russia after the start of the SVO. The series with the participation of Philip Yankovsky, Maria Mironova, Nastya Ivleeva and Mark Eidelstein was released on the Kinopoisk platform in November 2022. - Note ed.)

I dreamed of Arkadina: bright , chic, dominant - mine! nine0003

How can I forget that! And detail?

I come to Moscow for an audition: traffic jams, I didn’t have time to change clothes, make up, I ran to the studio on crutches, all wet, my leg in a cast. And Molochnikov looks so thoughtfully at me, at the cast, and says: “You will have a stage in a disco. Come on, let's see how you dance!"

Didn't you think: “Why did I even hobble here?”

After the trial, Alexander offered to take me to the hotel — and that's what I was thinking about all the way. He also asked: “Listen, why do you need a movie? It's too late for you to learn acting. You can, of course, collect all the money, strength, go to New York, take a course. But you are fine anyway!” - “Yes, everything is fine ...”

In the end, we say goodbye, I try to joke: “Thank you, I probably won’t see you again.” - "No, well, why, if you want backmarks, write." He puts my suitcase outside and leaves. If only I could carry him to the hotel, I'm still on crutches. I hobbled to the room, I called a friend: “They humiliated me, smeared me, drove over the fact that I’m old!” In general, when we washed Molochnikov's bones, it was already two in the morning, and then a message came from Sasha: “You are talented. I liked you". And in the morning: “You know, the producers liked you too. You have been approved." nine0003

It's good that Ekaterina Varnava warned me that Molochnikov might mock artists. To be honest, I thought that she would be my partner in the "Monastery". I found out later that we were going to travel to Africa with Nastya Ivleeva.

The first shooting day was in the suburbs. There were gloomy scenes ahead - I had a heavy monologue according to the script. I go in, I see - the director Nastya Ivleeva is setting her up so that she does not talk to anyone on the set and enters into the role. And I used to switch with Eifman on click: he said die - you're dying, go crazy - you go crazy. It’s hard for me to understand the technique when you think about the worst all day, so that tears drip onto a sandwich that you eat during a break. I kept forgetting I was wearing a microphone and trying to giggle. And all the time I heard: “Abashova, get ready! Are you here to rest? Why are you reading the text like “Google translate”? Do you even know what he's talking about? You are not dancing ballet here!” I'm not used to being talked to like that. “I’m just leaving now,” she said. And to this Molochnikov unexpectedly: “Yes, I myself will leave now!” It made me so happy! And what do you think? After all this, I get a message: “Well done, you surprised me, you played so well. ” All the time I remembered Barnabas. Thank you Catherine for letting me know. Because in Africa it was even worse. nine0003

But it was well played.

Now I will tell you the whole truth about sex in movies. In "Ballet" I also had a scene of a sexual nature: I hit the actor Beschastny in the face, then a kiss, a scene of passion in the car and a blackout. Cold, November, I'm in three pants, I have hot insoles in my boots, and I'm sitting on a partner whom I see for the first time in my life. "This is Arthur, this is Masha - start." I think: “Horror, but I still arose in ballet!” After all, I know my partner in the theater as a native, I see his worn-out ballet flats every day. Arthur cheered as best he could: "I have never had such a beautiful partner." But, friends, when you look at the screen and think: “Oh my God, there was a spark between them,” you know, the actors are ready to play anything, if only they would be released and they could take off those damn insoles. In a word, I must say a huge thank you to the director of "Ballet" Evgeny Sangadzhiev - he is an amazing actor, human being and director! If it weren’t for Zhenya’s approach to working with actors, I wouldn’t be able to do anything in The Monastery. nine0003

Mom was told: “You know, your daughter, most likely, will not grow up like everyone else, something is squeezed there.”

Tell me, did your mother see "The Monastery"?

The first episode comes out, well, I think my Judgment Day has come. And gently call like this: “Mom, how are you?” And you need to know my mother - she is a gorgeous woman! She is called the "Queen Mother" behind her back. And they call it in the eyes: we sometimes see the train and the crown quite realistically. I immediately want to be equal to my mother, everyone always calls her “you”. And she always calls everyone “you”, even three-year-old children: “Vasily, did you wash your hands?” They get lost in this. But adults are also lost, that's already there. I'm sure Mom could advise on some issues on The Crown, especially the fifth season. And my mother said: “Of course, I could not watch everything ...” Pause! “You, Masha, still need to work on your diction.” A curtain! nine0003

Mom can not only advise The Crown, but also go to film critics!

And ballet critics, trust me! In fact, my mother is a software engineer, and if it were not for her programming, which went beyond the professional sphere and invaded reality, I would not have seen the stage. After all, I was a rather sickly child with very severe scoliosis. One leg is shorter than the other, subluxation of the cervical vertebrae. Mom was told: “You know, your daughter, most likely, will not grow up like everyone else, something is squeezed there.” Then my mother threw all her strength (and work!) To make me not just a normal girl, but more than developed. nine0003

To strengthen the muscular corset of the spine, my mother took me to rhythmic gymnastics. Two months later, I took first place in the competition. But my legs tucked up all the time, and in order to strengthen my feet, it was decided to put me on pointe shoes. So at the age of 12 I got up to the machine, and at 14 I already danced the part of Nikiya in La Bayadère at the Lviv State Opera and Ballet Theatre. They even wrote about me in the newspapers.

Then I won the international competition at Artek and left for Austria at the invitation of the ballet conservatory. nine0003

Cool, that's where you get your penchant for modern ballet.

Not everyone thought it was cool: when I arrived in St. Petersburg and came with an Austrian paper to enter Vaganovskoye to get a higher education, they asked me: “Excuse me, Maria, but do you have something normal, essential?”

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Well, of course, people in a closed school gnaw on granite exercises, and here you are, eighty meters. nine0006

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I am a perfectionist maniac, I go to the other extreme. I remember my mother’s mantra: “There will be no dancing if you don’t become an excellent student.” Well, that was the motivation. At school, I won math olympiads, over the summer I solved 400 problems, at the age of twelve I was unable to support teenage topics: what kind of boys and clothes are there - only algebra and gymnastics. This frantic rhythm has been with me all my life, every day I load to the fullest. At night, I flew in from a tour, then immediately rehearsals, shooting, then something else. If suddenly there is a break, I begin to suffer: that's it, I'm not in demand. nine0003

Social media is where you live your second adolescence! Who could have imagined, looking at the fatal beauty, that the comedian is disappearing in you! And with self-irony you are more than okay.

I recorded my first funny videos together with Lyuba Andreeva, at first no one believed that I could even be a clown: “You are all such Karenina!” In quarantine, I began to shoot more often, already alone: ​​new and new stories appear in my head all the time, the further, the more. Even Eifman did not believe that I could be funny - he does not have social networks. nine0003

You probably have the most non-standard ballet blog.

In ballet schools, I would allow social networks only for senior classes, because children's perception is deformed. They lifted the leg, put the handle out, photoshopped it - and that's it, they think they are cool. Subscribers grow, likes are put, but they cannot dance. You look at the stage, and there is a frightened look, some poses, and you understand: it was better on the Internet!

Masha, maybe you should go into teaching? nine0006

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