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Alena Babenko: "I support hockey like crazy at the stadium"
— To be honest, my invitation was very unexpected. All I knew about this series was that it was popular. I am interested in hockey, but I have never seen a single episode. My husband plays in an amateur team and is friends with many famous hockey players. Especially for Yuri Babenko, who gave me a branded T-shirt with the inscription "Babenko" on the back. But all this happened long before that. Finally, you can see how such an opportunity presented itself.
My feelings are strong. I don’t know how to root for hockey in front of the TV, but as soon as I get to the stadium, something happens and I start screaming like crazy and my voice breaks. I was really distracted while filming a scene where the boys were playing hockey. They kept telling me, “Alena, why are you screaming? The camera is looking at the ice, not at you!” And I could barely contain myself.
I also met a wonderful actor who plays one of the main roles, Vladimir Zaitsev. This season we developed a personal relationship with his character, like in Eldar Ryazanov's film "Office Romance". Through mutual rejection - romantic feelings. Of course, I found a wonderful partner, a wonderful person, and by a rare coincidence we are now family friends and communicate.
- Yes, one season with Roman Kostomarov, another with Alexey Tikhonov. We traveled around the cities where boy skaters often played hockey. And our girls demanded it. So when I took the pole, I didn’t think about how to slow it down or how to turn it. Ilya Averbukh said: “The way you skated in the Ice Age, that’s how you skated in hockey!” There was such excitement that we ran like crazy, trying to find the puck.
"It's unpleasant, but we have to be prepared." I hope that live cinema will survive. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to move this neural network for a long time. But I have salvation - the theater! It is absolutely impossible to replace people on stage with artificial intelligence. Real-time communication lasts forever. Polish actor and director Gustaw Golowek once said: "If two people talk and a third listens, it's theater." So we won't get lost.
— I have a dog that I like. But I hardly have time to walk and play with it, and I love this activity. It's not only about my career and watching movies. However, I recently managed to watch two Soviet films. "Romance of Lovers" by Andrei Konchalovsky and "Success" by Konstantin Kudyakov. I watched them with great joy. And two German films "Royal Games" are not new, and "Life Stopped". Also great. We are planning several more series. And the books - "Dreams of Passion" and "Interview" by Terry Gilliam about the relationships of Alexander Blok, Lyubov Mendeleyeva and Andrei Bely. I respect him as the greatest dreamer and inventor.
— I don’t spend time on social media. Sometimes it makes me angry. But it’s true about cancel culture. I can’t argue with you. But please forgive me. Journalists also don’t like to attack and quickly take everything away. It used to be like that. A journalist met an artist and asked him something. Now he has nothing to do. He went on social media, typed everything there and wrote whatever he wanted. It’s not right.