The divorce did not darken the life of Valeria Lanskaya & nbsp. Keira Knightley: “I do not demand physical strength and testosterone character from men. Have you ever had sex?
Keira Knightley
The fragile British beauty is one of those amazing women who succeed in literally everything, for whatever they undertake. The acting career, into which the girl consciously came, is developing brilliantly - at least Knightley has already won two Oscar nominations. Soon the long-awaited picture "Phantom Beauty" will appear on the screens, thanks to the release of which the ambitious Knightley plans to triumphantly return to the list of the most sought-after and attractive actresses of our time.
- Kira, hello! You know, many people are still afraid to interview you. Apparently, it happened historically - all your conversations with journalists are published ...
- Too intense, tense, right? This is true, but now I am much calmer than, for example, until I was twenty-five. I was a pretty neurotic person then. I reacted very painfully to criticism, to any comment, especially concerning my work, I was ready to rush into battle.
- Did pregnancy change you?
- I know, I know, all young mothers say that. Of course, pregnancy changed me, but if you go back to what we talked about - about my extremely quarrelsome maximalist character - then everything happened earlier. It's just that one day I woke up and realized that I no longer want to be a nervous, twitchy, eternally offended victim who needs to defend her place always and in everything. In addition, by the time I was twenty-five, I had already had a wonderful career ... But the habit of throwing myself into any argument, answering every word with a stream of words was formed since childhood.
- So what happened? Something unexpected?
- Exactly! The most unexpected event in the world. (Laughs) I remember this day as if it were yesterday. My birthday, I'm twenty-five. I woke up, and ... you know, as if everything fell into place. My friends and I went bowling. We had a pretty silly party with karaoke (which I just hate, by the way) and a bunch of balloons. Lots of cupcakes. Lots of booze. It was just great. And in the midst of all this holiday, it was as if an inspiration had happened. I remember that moment very clearly. The moment when I got on the right track.
Shot from the movie "Play Like Beckham"
- You know, frankly speaking, a strange story. Basically, people who decide to start changing their lives and attitudes towards it experience some kind of severe stress.
- Yes, I do not believe myself! But I will make you believe. It's just that one day I got out of bed and went to meet a new day - with a new person. Very tired of constantly whining. I wanted so desperately to be happy that all of a sudden all these silly sayings about "if you want - just be it!" became real. There is no secret to joy. If you want, just be happy.
- I do not trust you.
“You just know that, besides my own desire, psychotherapy helped me. (Smiles.) By the way, I am not hiding this, I tell it at every corner. I think this is responsible, in an adult way - and then I really wanted to feel responsible and adult, and not a stupid skinny teenager.
- What do you mean?
- Well, psychotherapy. This is a deliberate step, very mature, it seems to me. After working with psychologists, all my complexes appeared on the surface - and I was able to overcome them. So, for example, who would have thought that I was a very timid and shy person?
Shot from the movie "King Arthur"
- To tell you frankly, no. For a shy person, you get naked in front of the cameras quite often.
- But do you understand that these are just mind games? In this way, I try to remove my fears and complexes. By the way, it turns out to be excellent. I'll tell you about the nudity later. Be sure to ask. (Laughs.) And so - for a really long time I was a painfully shy person. Apparently, this is where my aggression towards journalists comes from. (Smiles.) And it took me many years to go through this, to accept and overcome. In fact, a great deal of work has been done here - but don't think, I am not praising myself, I am just telling. Throwing all these "must" out of your damn head is something. “I should dress like this, not like that”, “I should put on makeup”, “I should be more feminine”. In all these imaginary responsibilities, you can drown without feeling the pleasure of life.
“You really seem to be more relaxed than usual. Does this mean that we can talk about your personal life? I remember you answered all the questions about boyfriends rather harshly, almost "I have no idea who this person is." Has everything changed now?
- Oh yeah! (Laughs) I remember very well how I answered in this way. "I've never heard of such a thing!" My husband (then he was in the status of a friend) was very surprised to read this. Said, "You don't know me, you say? Should we get to know each other better? " And he made an offer. I remember that once I promised the press that as soon as a husband and children appear in my life, I will become more open to discussing my personal life. So, get it!
- Now, few young people decide to enter into an official marriage. It seems like it's easier and more enjoyable to be just a couple. And you and James Ryton announced your engagement pretty soon by now. You've been together for five years now. How do you like being a wife?
- First of all, I will say that marriage does not change anything at all. You just do not have legal problems - as spouses in the face of the law, you are the closest people to each other at the state level. You can, for example, calmly visit each other in hospitals. (Laughs.) Our life with James is the ordinary life of the most ordinary people. We even cook at home, and he is much cooler than me in this matter.
- How did you meet?
“I hope our daughter never finds out. (Smiles.) We met at a dinner party, we were introduced by a mutual friend. By the way, this is important! We were brought together by a guy named Tim, not Alexa Chung (Alexa Chung is a model, TV presenter and journalist. - Author's note). Just for some reason, all the magazines assure that it was she who introduced us to each other. So we were very drunk. They seemed to be discussing literature or something. To be honest, I hardly remember that moment. And I will have nothing to tell my grandchildren.
- Did you have a dashing youth?
- Even some! I started acting at an early age, and I desperately lacked the fun - drunkenness, partying, adventure, whirlwind romance. I have pretty democratic parents, but I didn't want to disappoint them, so I tried very, very hard to be the right girl. At school I remember myself as a kind of crammer with a book under his arm. And you probably also know that I suffer from congenital dyslexia (impaired reading and writing. - Approx. Auth.). This was an additional incentive to constantly learn, answer in lessons, be the first in everything and everywhere. I even went to college, but I started my studies at the peak of my popularity - so I had to give up. It turns out that one of my goals is excellent studies, and was replaced by another - to become a real actress. And it was not always possible to find time for fun. So do not be surprised that, when I had a free evening, I got drunk, danced until I fell, and woke up in unfamiliar places. After all, I'm British, I'm not ashamed of my passion for pubs and good booze!
- But now, with the birth of your daughter, has everything changed?
- She is already one and a half years old, so my husband and I still choose evenings in order to get drunk desperately! (Laughs.) But in fact, James and I have really become much more calm and rational. After all, I'm thirty-two years old now! He and I race to read - David Foster Wallace, Somerset Maugham. And this is despite the fact that by nature we are more techies, although both studied in the humanities. My husband has a degree in history and political science, he is a big history lover. Sorry, what did you ask? It's just that I'm still very much in love with my spouse and can talk about him for hours.
- They say that on your thirtieth birthday, James gave you a real party. Tell us how it was!
- You see, all my life I dreamed of becoming thirty. It sounds rather strange, but it is. My mother assures me that already at the age of five I resembled a forty-five-year-old madame, and this seems to be true. Therefore, it always seemed to me that at thirty there would be a merger of my inner world with external manifestations. In a word, all my life I wanted to celebrate this day on a grand scale. But, as you know, everything turned out a little differently than I expected. On my birthday, I was eight months pregnant. No alcohol. No dancing! I was discouraged in advance, but James arranged a wonderful lunch at one of my favorite restaurants. About twenty of my friends and family came. All in a voice assured me: "You see how great it is to have fun without drinking a drop!", While pumping up wonderful champagne. Then the whole company drove to our home, where there was a huge number of balloons. Our drunken guests smashed them all to one, shouted "Happy birthday!" It was really great, but a little offensive.
Still from the film "Anna Karenina"
- Do you and your husband look alike?
- Largely. But you know, he's the kind of person who looks like a bright source of light in the middle of a room. Everyone is drawn to them. I ... well, you know. I'm annoying. I'm aggressive. Of those who sit in a dark corner. Objectively speaking, he is much better than me.
- I remember you said that after the birth of your daughter, you finally accepted yourself completely.
- Yes. This love that you feel is amazing. It's a very primitive - yes, a perfectly fitting word! - primitive love. You are no longer sleeping, you are not eating, and you are still full of strength for this great love. As for self-acceptance: as a woman, I can assure you that each of us has body parts that we hate. You know, we look in the mirror and think: “Oh, why do I have such legs (or arms, or belly, or whatever!)” And then we go through pregnancy, childbirth, feeding our baby - and we perceive ourselves in a completely different way ... Now I am completely satisfied with my figure - yes, angular, boyish, with sharp knees and protruding collarbones, with the absence of feminine seductive curves and large breasts. And all thanks to my Edie.
- Now you are returning to big cinema after a break. Has your attitude towards criticism changed? I remember you very painfully perceived unflattering statements in your address.
- Before pregnancy, it seemed to me that I was one hundred percent high on my work. I have had a lot of great projects. I was very lucky with George Lucas and Star Wars, who opened the way for me to the big world of cinema. I really enjoyed filming Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean, Anna Karenina. But this thrill was overshadowed by critics and anti-fans, I was dependent on the opinion of a crowd of people who were ready to tell me what, where and how I did wrong. I remember the scandal with the director John Carney, who publicly began to accuse me of unprofessionalism and inability to act. It was very disappointing. But now I look at it in a completely different way. Once I asked myself: “Who are all these people who slander? Some people enjoy my game, some don't. I will try for those who really like me. "
Shot from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean"
Do you plan to continue filming big blockbusters like Pirates? Or focus on projects like Dangerous Method or Ghostly Beauty coming out soon? So to say, what will win: mass versus serious?
- I'm not sure if I'm ready to dive into a blockbuster, despite the fact that as a viewer I love films like Pirates. It just takes a lot of time and effort, which I want to devote to Eddie for now. But in general, in the very near future, I want to return to acting one hundred percent. I plan to work - and work as much as possible. This is a kind of addiction that I want to be exposed to all my life. I am ready to be an actor without fees - money in this profession is far from the main thing. After all, there are other ways to make money.
- Are you talking about your modeling career?
- Exactly. By the way, I was very surprised when Chanel invited me to become their face. But my surprise could not be compared with the shock of my mother, who knows me exclusively as a tomboy in a man's jumpsuit. And she always reminds me to change clothes for more feminine ones when I'm going to interviews.
- And yet, why do you think they chose you?
“I have a weird combination of earthiness and glamor — at least that's what my agents told me. (Laughs.)
- Tell us about your relationship with your parents. They say you are very close.
- My parents help me a lot. Take, for example, my dad, thanks to whom I acquired this strange name. Kira - have you ever wondered that this is not very British? My father was a passionate admirer of the Soviet figure skater Kira Ivanova and made my mother register me that way. But my mother confused the spelling a little (instead of Kiera, she wrote it down as Keira. - Approx. Auth.). The Pope was extremely unhappy with this spelling mistake. But, perhaps, this is all I am. Solid spelling error.
- And mom? What kind of relationship do you have with her?
- It was she who taught me to love lipstick - the only decorative cosmetics product that I adore and recognize. It's like a perfect weapon aimed at the world, like armor. When my mother had a bad day, something went wrong, she went to the mirror and painted herself with red lipstick. And I still do the same.
- Do you have any favorite movie heroines? Maybe Karenina or Lara from Doctor Zhivago?
- I am strict with my own works, so I cannot tell you which of the ones I have played will give me closer. Probably, Karenina is the farthest in temperament. Well, suicidal moods are not mine. But in general I will answer. I love Scarlett O'Hara from Gone With the Wind. She is my idol. She is a real bitch who does exactly what she wants, despite everyone's disapproval. Everyone wants to live like Scarlett, right?
mother says that I was born forty-five years old.
probably stupid to talk about it, but I never liked being a child. I wanted people to start taking me seriously as soon as possible.
I started filming when I was seven, and from the very first day I decided to save money for a house - I put money in a jam jar. But I wanted an agent when I was three. I don't remember it myself, but everyone around says that it was. I think that in fact I did not have the slightest idea who the agents were, it just seemed unfair to me that Mom and Dad had them and I didn’t.
last birthday, When I turned 28, I thought, "Damn, this is called becoming an adult." And then I took a photo - I am nine years old, I am sitting somewhere in a denim overalls - and I thought that I urgently needed to buy the same one. And then someone gives me wings like a fairy. In general, I met my 28th birthday in a denim overalls with wings behind my back - and I have never been so happy.
my parents had an agreement: for several years in a row - after my older brother was born - my mother wanted a second child, but my father (theater and television actor Will Knightley - Esquire) said that they could only allow it if my mother (Sharman MacDonald, famous screenwriter - Esquire) will write and successfully sell the play. So I was born, and my mother wrote “When I was a girl, I cried and screamed” - her first play.
I went the way from the eternal “she can't play” to the Oscar nomination, and it seems to be great.
at all kinds of social events you can see me in the corner with a glass of champagne. Every time I am very, very scared and uncomfortable, and I just stand there in the corner, quietly drinking, smiling meaninglessly and waiting for everything to finally end. And I never know what to say to whom.
there are no individuals on the red carpet, and no matter how hard the photographers try, they are all very similar. This is why I adore Bjork and her swan dress (which Bjork wore at the 2001 Academy Awards - Esquire). But I don’t have the courage to do that.
in some pictures I look like a prostitute - but dear prostitute, of course. One that only stops at the Ritz.
in magazines I am called the sloppiest woman in Britain, and I am very proud of it because it is true.
when i was ten I dressed like Kurt Cobain. My brother and his friends loved Nirvana, and I had this crazy washed cardigan - striped like Cobain's. I wore it every day, and when it finally went to the trash heap because it was worn to holes, I cried as if I was burying a person.
never think what to wear. The main thing is to wear clean.
I always disappoint people who come to interview me. Obviously, everyone expects me to be much more beautiful in life.
I don't think about a balanced diet. Just the thought of diet makes me want chips or ice cream. And I don't go to the gym - I can't stand them.
I do not have no idea how much I weigh. I don't even have weights. But I noticed that when I talk about it, I terribly annoy those who can not be called graceful in any way.
I'm terribly lazy. The only exercise I do regularly is turn on the TV.
football - that's the only reason I have a TV at home. This is complete nonsense - watching football on a laptop screen.
more than anything I like to walk. I know it sounds like shit, but that's the way I was born.
I can not even imagine, can you say that I am completely normal. The world around me is definitely not normal, but I try not to hurt others, and I try not to hurt myself. Perhaps this is the definition of normality.
OK, that everyone thinks differently. It's more interesting to live this way.
to be an actor - means to be observant. You will have to come to a cafe and watch people for hours.
the most unexpected things in the world we learn about ourselves.
if I have a dark side I still haven't found her. Yes, I'm so boring.
nude filming scares me, but I'm ready for it if the script requires it. Well, or if it seems to me that this is funny.
on the posters my boobs are always painted on. For King Arthur (2004 film - Esquire) I also got boobs painted on, but they turned out to be stupid and saggy. And I told them: "Guys, since you started drawing my boobs on the computer, you could make them stick out right."
yes i have boobs, but 50% of the inhabitants of this planet also have boobs. So let's not waste time talking about mine.
I firmly decided live your life in the best possible way. First of all, it means giving as few interviews as possible.
yes, I wear a ring. This is the only thing I can say about my personal life.
I've had enough on-screen weddings. In the cinema, I got married five times, and I have three children, plus countless marriage proposals - something like twenty.
i never ask their fellow actresses, how are they doing, because I don't want to know at all. It may sound a little childish, but I really don't want to know anything about how and what they live. After all, if suddenly I find out that they are doing a lot of shit in life, I will immediately become uninteresting to look at them on the screen.
when there are too many men around you your beard will grow.
they always ask me:"So you're not kidding when you say you are a feminist?" It's like, damn it, everyone is just kidding about it.
if you want to maintain good relations with your family, your man and your friends, you will have to spend all your time on the Internet with your phone in hand.
good books make me happy, good food and an evening with friends.
I hate karaoke. Hell, I just hate this fucking karaoke. I have to get drunk so that I can no longer stand without someone's help before I dare to sing in front of someone. Imagine: among those around me, there are a lot of people who really sing beautifully, and then suddenly I pick up a microphone. It doesn't look any better than just telling them "fuck you".
swearing is my main sin, but I enjoy it immensely. And this despite the fact that my mother swears quite a bit, and my father does not swear at all.
I used to love rage against the machine very much. It seems because they constantly swear in their songs.
"cute" - it's the worst word on earth.
I was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child, so I'm not reading fast. But I really love words. Quite strange, considering that they are so difficult for me.
life - it is not only about learning, learning and learning. Life is to learn and unlearn, learn and unlearn, and then learn again.
I never believed that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 due to the apocalypse. It seems to me that they just had an undeveloped imagination, and they could not imagine what would happen next, after 2012.
I forget absolutely everything even faces. Another side of dyslexia, yeah.
what am I thinking now? That very soon, tonight, we are meeting with friends for a drink. Gin makes me roar, so I'll drink vodka.
when you don't know what to do - faint.
She prefers to stay away from sexy looks and eccentric outfits on the red carpet. But this time, the actress decided to surprise her fans and colleagues with a very unusual photo shoot for the new issue of Interview magazine. The star of the screens appeared on the cover in a very sensual and beautiful way.
With wet hair and a sexy outfit, Keira Knightley looks dazzling in black and white photography. The 29-year-old beauty looks directly into the camera, and her hair erotically falls on her face - cheeks, chin and cheekbones. The Donna Caran dress only emphasized the natural beauty of the actress, who has been the sex symbol of Hollywood for many years. Photographer Patrick Demarchelier was delighted to work with Keira Knightley and bring her to the world from a new perspective. The 71-year-old Frenchman has focused all his attention on the expressive gaze of the celebrity.
In an interview with Interview, Keira Knightley admitted that she is just crazy about her husband James Ryton. The actress and famous musician got married last year and are still on their honeymoon stage. There is a wonderful understanding between celebrities and they try to appreciate every minute they spend together.
The actress feels happy
The star of the film " Pirates of the Caribbean Keira Knightley and 29-year-old James Ryton met in February 2011 after being introduced to each other by their mutual friend Alex Chang. They announced their engagement in May 2012. And in the spring of next year, celebrities secretly signed and invited a very modest number of guests by the standards of stars to this ceremony. Keira Knightley and James Wrighton's wedding took place in the town hall near the city of Marseille. The young bride and her husband looked very happy and joyful when they left this important place. Then the newlyweds got into a modest Renault Clio car and sped away. A small company, which became the guests of the holiday, rejoiced for the actress and her husband at the exit from the town hall.
The actress has her own beauty secrets
What do you think of the new Interview cover featuring sexy Keira Knightley?
Englishwoman Kiera Knightley Is one of the outstanding actresses of her generation. In the April issue of Interview Magazine she became the main character - the cover, a large and not standard photo session performed by the stars of fashion photography Marcus Piggot and Murt Alas, and a very unusual interview - director David Cronenberg, who filmed Kira in his film Dangerous method ", talked to the 27-year-old actress, vacationing at home in London, after filming the role of Anna Karenina.
Kiera Knightley / Keira Knightley
photographers Mert & Marcus
Interview Magazine april 201201. 
David Cronenberg- How are you? Where are you?
Keira Knightley- I'm fine. In London. I just left someone in the kitchen to cook chicken curry, although I was going to help him, but I will not (laughs)... Where are you?
DC“I'm in my office in Toronto. You finished your work at Anna Karenina, didn't you?
KN- We finished right before Christmas.
DC- Another Russian.
KN- Yes! I'm not really sure what the story is about this. It seems that I am beginning to feel the Russians ... Although, I have never even been to Russia.
DC- Me too. You didn't speak with a Russian accent when you played Anna, did you?
KN“No, even though you told me I had to do it. I think you remember how you once said in Venice: "Go back to Joe (To Wright, director of the film "Anna Karenina" - approx. Valse-boston) and speak like a Russian. "
DC- Yes, I'm very glad you didn't. I feel a lot of influence from both of you: you and Sabina. (Spielrein - the character of Keira Knightley in the movie "Method is Dangerous")... I can't even think that you are working with another director. I haughtily assume that on set you secretly think, "Oh God ... David would have done it very differently."
KN- I miss you all the time. (laughs)
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DC- Is this version of Anna Karenina made like a great epic movie?
KN- In a sense, yes, but at the same time it turned out to be a very stylized, deeply theatrical work. In many ways, this is the opposite of The Dangerous Method, with its millions of different angles. They work in completely different ways. Sabina and Anna are not alike, but there is a common idea that their way of thinking turns against themselves as a result. But in fact, the way we did Anna Karenina is completely different from working on Dangerous Method.
DC- Have you watched other films based on Anna Karenina?
KN- I watched several versions some time ago. One of them was on TV in England, with Elena McCrory as Anna, and she was adorable. I also saw the version with Greta Garbo, but that was a long time ago. I didn't want to revisit all this before filming, and if somewhere I managed to do something similar to them, then it was by accident, and not because I deliberately copied someone. But this is a very strange book ... I do not quite understand what Leo Tolstoy's real attitude to Anna was - he liked her, or he hated her, she is the hero of this novel, or his antihero. At some moments it seems that he despises her, but this is really a book about a woman who, in some way, despised, so you have to play without trying to make her too good, or simplifying everything too much, which is really very difficult. I think if you turn it all into melodrama, it will not be as interesting as the original story.
DC- Someone might say: "Why does it matter at all what Tolstoy's point of view was?" By the way, one can imagine that Tolstoy was a director, and Anna was his actress. Once I wrote a story myself. I started my career thinking that I would become a writer.
KN- I didn't know about it.
DC- Yeah. The strange thing is that I find it very much like directing. You select characters, dress them up, light them up, find a scene, decide what they will eat ... So, thinking of Tolstoy as the director of his novel, and of you as his actress, try to understand how he treats you applies. Did Joe Wright become Leo Tolstoy for you?
KN - (laughs) Oh sure. I think the most important thing in trying to adapt such a book to cinema is to determine what Tolstoy thought about each of his characters. What is the purpose of each of the characters? Does the character have to look good or bad? Is there a way that we can combine the good and the bad in this person, because it will be more interesting? I think we constantly asked ourselves similar questions. So, yeah, I guess Joe really, in a way, became Leo Tolstoy.
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DC- So, you played two tragic roles of Russian women in a row, one of which is based on real events. Was there any difference for you between playing a completely fictional character and a real historical persona?
KN- Yes, there are always moral questions when playing a real person. Is there a good reason for doing this, or are you just exploiting someone's name? It's like dancing on someone's grave. I think it's much more fun working on a fictional character. So many people are identified with him. Thus, you are not using anyone, and you are not taking the easy route by judging them. Or, if you condemn them, then you do it in such a way that the person judges himself, and does not judge from the outside. What's nice about playing someone real is that there is more information about them, so many of the questions that I would like to ask have ready-made answers. Although, it was quite difficult to play Sabina, because there was not a lot of information about her.
DC- But there is much more information about Anna Karenina in a large book, which, in a strange way, makes Anna a more real person than most people like Sabina.
KN- When we talk about great fictional literary characters, and why they often turn into characters in films, they speak and act like real people. They are as full of flaws as they are of heroism. I think the reason people love and hate them so much is because they always see themselves in them as in a mirror. At a certain level, you can always understand them. Sometimes it is a scary, dark mirror. I think in a way, this is Anna. I'm not sure people will feel the same in Sabina.
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DC- People who liked Sabina - and there are quite a few of them - are very grateful, because they feel that she has returned to life.
KN- Absolutely. I may not have understood her very well, but she wrote in her diary: "My name was Sabina Spielrein" and "I, too, was once a man." These words were spinning in my head, a kind of fire that someone should have noticed. This helped me to play her role, because many people, having learned the name, will learn the history. I think Sabina has a very ambiguous personality, and I think it's great when people react that way.
DC- You know, I had a strange experience when my film Crash (1996) was released in England. The tabloid press just went crazy for a year, attacking the film, calling it vicious and disgusting and being "beyond debauchery" - this is what I liked the most. But you are constantly at the top of the English press. Do you think people there look at your work with a clear eye? Or do they only see a celebrity, not really seeing your work?
KN- I really don't know ... I don't really know what they really want ... I know that in "Dangerous Method" people liked the whipping scenes (laughs)... I'm not quite sure though. It's strange, by the way, when we were in Venice (at the Venice Film Festival - approx.valse-boston), I have not been asked about this scene even once during the entire time that we were there.
DC- Me too.
KN- And then, in Toronto, I was asked about this not much more often. But in England, this happens really often, and it seems that this is the only thing I am asked about at all. I'm not quite sure how this characterizes the British.
DC- Well, they probably like the spanking. Perhaps this comes from situations in private schools for boys. When your bare ass gets spanked, it is usually a kind of homoerotic experience in this type of school ... This is my interpretation of why spanking is really so interesting for the British.
KN- Really interesting. Probably soon I will have to shoot back from journalists who want to ask a question on this topic.
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DC- You have already starred in several very popular films such as Pirates of the Caribbean. You know, I've never made a big Hollywood movie before. Do you think I could work in this?
KN- I think you could work anywhere. But I think when you get a big project, working on it becomes much more difficult than working on a personal project. I had a lot more fun filming Dangerous Method because I was closer to the people I worked with. You feel everyone on a personal level, you feel like part of a single team. Large projects are more difficult because the number of people working there is huge. But in working with you, serious questions constantly arise, you constantly have to make decisions. In the films of large studios, there are a lot of different people and authorities through which any thought must pass, so it is rather difficult to understand what the final decision will be. It is always much easier when there is one person whose thought you follow.
DC- Well, a good dictatorship, I think this is what should be on the set. But Robert Pattinson, who plays in the movie "Cosmopolis," which I just finished, once said that after working on "Twilight," he was surprised enough that I could make decisions on the set, and that was happening. But for me this is a common thing.
KN- I think quite often, when you have a lot of money and time, and you make a movie for a big film studio, you don't have to make the final decisions, right on the go. You can always go back and reshoot the scene.
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DC- Sometimes I wonder where the border is. Do you enjoy working on something like Pirates ... where the whole process is big technology? It seems to me that you are not so keen on modern technologies ... Or not?
KN- If I had to make a choice, it would be something like a performance, or, to summarize, less technological work. When you work in a space where a lot of technology is used, it is very difficult to play your part, because you have to do a lot over and over again, from different angles. This is actually what I would like to understand. I am very interested in how to maintain high performance in a high-tech process.
DC“Well, in the end, you’ll just put on a costume that makes a digital picture of your movements, and the whole movie game will consist of this.
KN- I've already filmed like that. Would you like to try this?
DC- You can believe I will try (Kira laughs)... After Anna Karenina, another film comes out in which you starred.
KN- Yes, in June the film "Looking for a friend for the end of the world" is released - a film about the end of the world, oddly enough. I starred in it even before Anna Karenina. Steve Carell also plays in it.
DC- How it was?
KN“Well, Steve is absolutely adorable. I love his work in Little Miss Happiness (2006). He has an incredible ability to be funny, but at the same time pretentious, like a crying clown. There are comic moments in the film, but it is about the end of the world, so obviously there is a sense of the apocalypse, and this is not a comic because everything dies ... Otherwise, quite fun. (laughs)
DC- You just have a lot of other films, and other directors.
KN- This is true. Sorry. I am constantly cheating on you.
DC- I know. Okay, maybe this will add spice to our relationship. I made another movie after Dangerous Method, so I think we're both guilty.
KN- I know. You cheated on me. An open relationship is normal. I think it's okay.
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Photographers: Mert Alas, Marcus Piggott
Style: Karl Templer
Location: London, March 2012
Text: David Cronenberg
Translation: valse-boston (the translation is far from perfect, I recommend everyone to read the original text on the journal's website:
Valeria Lanskaya gave a frank interview in the program of Kira Proshutinskaya “Wife. Love story". The actress told why the divorce of her parents did not darken her life, and about the main meeting in her life.
Valeria Lanskaya was born in the family of ballroom dance teacher Alexander Zaitsev and figure skating coach, choreographer Elena Maslennikova. The future artist grew up as a happy child, and even the divorce of her parents did not darken her life. “For me, their separation was not a big psychological trauma, as is the case with children. They somehow correctly conveyed to me that it would be better for everyone. And I still think that it is better to see the parents separately, but happy people, than together, but in constant conflict, ”said Valeria.
Parents broke up due to the fact that Elena Maslennikova fell in love with another man. By the way, Lanskaya admitted that her stepfather did not become a close person to her. Already at the age of 14 she graduated from school as an external student, and at 15 she entered the Shchukin school. It was there that Valeria fell in love for the first time. In a conversation with Kira Proshutinskaya, the actress admitted that she was very amorous, she had novels, and every time she wanted to bring them to a serious relationship and even marriage. But it didn't work.
"I couldn't be alone, I didn't want to. It's hard for me to be alone. But every time it was not who, I should feel something for him, respect him. And for me the most important quality of my beloved is talent. If a person is not talented, I can not respect him, I am not interested in him, "- explained the actress.
Valeria met her future husband, director Stas Ivanov, on the set in Yaroslavl. She acted in films there, and he made films. “I was talking to my partner at breakfast one day and I was so uninterested. When the partner got up to take something else, Stas came up and said: “I see that you need to be saved. I am Stas Ivanov, film director, very nice. I have a proposal for you. Let's meet tonight and talk. "
Lanskaya accepted his offer, but on the second meeting he made a bad impression on her. Ivanov seemed overly cynical and self-confident, but she could not help but admit that he is very talented. As a result, three months later, the director made the actress a marriage proposal.
“We were out of town, he called a couple of friends and my mother. We made kebabs and sat at the table. I feel that he is nervous. I think why? And he gets up and asks my mother for my hand. And mom: "Yes, you get married already!" I was very happy. For the first time I was sure: yes, this will happen, this is the person, and I want this unconditionally, "Lanskaya said. Valeria and Stas got married in March 2015, and already in September their son Artemy was born in their family.