Appearance
In fact, reports about it are stereotyped. Apeksimova found in herself the energy of transformation - she destroyed stereotypes. She no longer embodies the ready-made images, she is attracted by the dynamics and the formation of character on stage, in the cinema and in real life. In addition, Irina is a vivid example of the discrepancy between discrepancies, namely, internal and external perceptions of a person. Spectators are accustomed to perceive this actress as a dispassionate and cold-blooded lady, although in fact Ira is a vulnerable, touching, open and very cheerful person. This real Odessa! She was early in the theatrical backstage: her parents were classical musicians, her mother worked as the main choirmaster in the theater of musical comedy, and when Irina turned 13 she went to study in a specialized theater class. To get into the backwoods of her personal life is to destroy those numerous stamps that surround the name of the actress.
The image of the lady-vamp was glued to her after the film "Limit" directed by Denis Evstigneev, "And the train was stretched." Of course, I could see the appearances of truly business women, the presidents of big companies, on television. Playing those, I try to organically pronounce the text on the basis of Stanislavsky's system and my own experience, while for me all these business papers, faxes and computers are a dense forest. "
But Apeksimova continued to play strong and stylish, for example, Amina in the series "The Birthday of Burzhuy". She was even dubbed the business Snow Queen. Amina - a rich, almost not smiling "new Russian bourgeois". Of course, this type of viewers instantly projected onto the actress. In the first part, together with her husband Valery Nikolayev, they played sincerely people who love each other. It seemed that nothing foreshadowed the gap, but ... In the second part of the series, Amina was no more.
"I did not say anything for a long time about this, and now I will tell the truth for the first time." The fact is that from the first part of "Bourgeois", or rather from the version written by Rogoza, there was practically no word left in the film. It turned out to be simply unreal, every shooting day started with the fact that the three of us: director Anatoly Mateshko, Valery Nikolayev and I sat down on the floor, laid out the script sheets and decided what to do next, then almost everything was reshuffled and improvised.
But one day a man came to the platform, stood behind the camera, looked, listened, and began to resent loudly: "Why do not the actors say my text?" At the same time, it was already the 12th hour of filming, we, tired, were tormented over the next stage. And I loudly, apparently, asked non-tenderly: "And this, strictly speaking, who is this?" Before that, we were not even introduced to each other. I was quietly explained that this is the script writer Yuri Rogoza. This was our only contact with him. After my statements, he told the press that Apeksimova herself had killed herself, because she had not correctly transferred the image created by him, the writer. I read his interview. "Good people" called, the newspaper was given. I was not offended, no. It's just so unfair to me that no one else has done it. "
Staying in such stereotyped images for the biography of film actress Irina Apeksimova, as a strong businesswoman, is a long time difficult task: they are built on naked professionalism and create great internal tension. Apeksimova left this form after the first part, though she also came from another shape - Apeksimova's happy married couple - Nikolaev. It is rumored that because of the novel that broke out on the court between Darya Poverennova (actress played the sister of Burzhuy - Vera) and Valery Nikolayev , Irina soon broke up with her husband. Subsequently, Nikolaev and Poverennova lived together for two years, until the famous heartthrob did not find a new passion. Nevertheless, and Poverennova, and Apeksimova from emotional stress long ago. Today everyone has found her new happy love. "We have normal friendly relations with Valery Nikolayev, we have lived together for many years, our daughter is growing up."
Divorce from the past
After "Burzhuya" Irina experienced a "divorce" from the past: she managed to break the image of a strong and rich bitch, podnadoevshy her, to prove that the bitch she - just for fun, on stage. She ventured off the walls of the Moscow Art Theater. She showed an enviable intellectual confidence and integrity - it was this that determined the luck that accompanied the actress in all endeavors,
Scenario of the psychological drama of Sergei Biloshnikov "Cage" Apeksimova swallowed in three seconds, and without hesitation, agreed to the shooting. The actress admits that for the first time in her life it was really interesting to read the material. Irina was approved for the main role without a trial, "I did not go to the prison or to the psychiatric hospital specially to start shooting in Cage, it's my job, and I cope with it without naturalism - otherwise all the actors should have been sent to The only shock was a trip in a real "avtozak" - a car for transporting prisoners.I literally put it in there and carried it in. I could not touch anything - the body began to itch, I just wanted to wash it, and it was not scary to act, on the contrary - it is interesting. first film where I knew exactly what to do and where I really had to play. "
To play her own personal truth she happened in the play of Roman Viktyuk "Our Decameron XXI" after the play by Edvard Radzinsky. "This is an amazing role, although it was not easy for me, I almost lost my mind, I have a solid monologue and at the end of the performance I almost lose my voice." This role has an incredible palette, from tragedy to farce. "But as soon as she began rehearsals, my life was followed by catastrophic situations - withdrawal from the Moscow Art Theater, divorce, I began to catch myself that I repeat the text of the role in my real life, although leaving the Moscow Art Theater turned out to be a much more difficult test than parting with my husband. went for a long time, and perceived a divorce, as nei But she did not allow herself to depress herself-her daughter and mother were behind her back. "
Entering new images was accompanied by an outcome from the Moscow Art Theater: Apeksimova headed the actors' union, which did not accept the draft of the new theater statute proposed by the directorate. She was immediately fired from among the other rebels. Then she realized that "from now on, you have to deal only with yourself, fight for yourself, and in no case for others." Yes, I was thrown out of the theater, where I played many wonderful roles, Yes, it was a great loss. We, the actors, are like drug addicts, but there were positive moments too: I gained complete independence and decided my own destiny. "Afterwards, through the court, we all recovered at work, but I did not return." An alternative to the Moscow Art Theater was found by Roman Viktyuk, the great master of the stage, a brilliant director. "
Independent swindler
Irina found an alternative to the past experience in the new, changing her fate abruptly. Apeksimova was never afraid to take risks, radically change her life. For example, I decided once to open a club-restaurant, where famous artists would work from time to time, "waiters, Friends only grabbed their heads:" Are you crazy? Are you going to the visitors with a tray, a menu and in the apron? " "It's nothing to worry about." * She was a business, and she was selling fish, too. She was also talking to her husband in nightclubs without feeling humiliated. True, these speeches were associated with other problems. They had no money with Nikolayev, in the shops - empty counters. Once, for an extra fee, the couple were invited to work out a concert. I liked the viewer. Next began corporate parties in nightclubs, where "new Russian" loved to entertain. So they taped and worked part-time. But Ira is ready to work anywhere and any amount. She and the floors will quietly go to wash, since she is deprived of "soviet" complexes - she is well familiar with the need. The main thing is to destroy stereotypes. And also - that her daughter needs nothing, And she will never complain, they say, there is nothing to feed the child. Nevertheless, after spending a year in a full-time America, Irina did not want to stay there.
Actually, American stereotypes did not tear it away from reality, - Apeksimova if she dreamed in the States, then about the return. Despite the successful shooting in the movie Hollywood director Philip Noyce "Saint".
"Of course, they do not treat us there as well, because the best nation, according to the Americans, is the Americans, and for the French, the French." And how do you think Moscow treats all other nations? Let's launch some unknown American actress, and even speaking badly in Russian? Yes, who needs her here? So there is no need to build illusions about the West.
What's the difference, where to work - in Hollywood, on "Mosfilm"? So that you have a career in your new place, you must first give up everything for it - youth, health, and start all over again. The situation is similar to the one when I arrived at the age of 19 from the provinces to Moscow. Three times "flew" in the exams at the theater school, because I had a terrible Odessa speech. So in fact I got rid of. And she did.
Yes, I spent almost a year in Los Angeles, and my only desire was to return to Moscow as soon as possible. Being a housewife in the States and expecting the upcoming shopping weekend is not for me. I did not do anything there, so I almost lost my mind. The only happiness was that every month she flew to Moscow to play a play at the Moscow Art Theater. Then she returned completely. And my mother did not stay in America. She worked there as an accompanist on emigrant concerts, lived in Brooklyn and communicated only with ours, who are still in heart, heart, and conversations live exclusively by Russia. In my opinion, my mother in the history of emigration became the only person who managed to get refugee status back to his homeland. People born here should live only here. In order to be able to adapt normally in the American environment, one must either come to the light or move overseas at a very young age. And then look dignified, successful, safe, and not shut up in a close environment of emigrants who do not live in American life, and they have no more of their own. "
The appearance of Dasha's daughter appeared in America too. Although specifically did not count and did not guess. Simply at that time Valery was filming in Chile, staged a performance at Princeton University. In Moscow, Ira was left alone. On the family council it was decided that she had better come to her husband. Now, according to US law, Dasha is an American citizen. "Maybe someday Dasha wants to go to the USA, Let her go, it will be her choice, but for the time being it's convention." She is pleased to brag to her friends, say, America is her homeland. Now she studies at school and studies ballet with Gediminas Taranda.
But in the States , as in any other country, it's important to be at the right time and in the right place. I did not get it. Perhaps, if I was not in Hollywood, but on Broadway, everything turned out differently. But, returning to Russia, she considered herself to be the happiest woman on Earth. "
And this, perhaps, is the most unexpected stereotype she destroyed.
"This movie will not be shown twice"
In the stereotypes of the relationship, the actress also does not believe. Once she was asked: "Is it true that Apeksimov is afraid of men, since not everyone agrees to play the role of a femme fatale female boy?" She answered: "You see, they stopped looking at me like a woman." Here, for example, a pretty girl is walking along the street, and they pay attention to her, And they look at me, first of all, as a familiar face. when abroad some men who do not know that I'm a popular actress in Russia are just looking at me. "It's an incredible pleasure, but they are rarely bothered, afraid - a black ... bitch." Experimenting with the hair color and dyeing the blonde for Apeksimova is equivalent to plastic surgery. In other words, she will remain a brunette, only in the image of Snow White, Ira does not like stylists, image-makers. "She wants to remain as she was created by the Lord - a brunette with white skin. Therefore, does not change the crown black haircut, and long hair - from the category of dreams.
"I buy clothes that I like, four years in a row I wore trousers bought in America for five cents and I did not adore them because they are inexpensive, but because they are good." It is clear that I do not go to the second-hand , and once visited. In Los Angeles, I have one favorite store selling clothes of different French fashion designers that nobody knows, but things are simply unthinkable.In clothes, contrary to popular belief, I prefer a non-rigid style. gently pink or colored, of course, I will never wear it. The color is black, I do not like fur, and if it's a fur coat, it's so brutal ... It's furious ... I do not buy jewelry myself, only as a gift. "
Her chiseled , slender figure is by no means a merit of diet and fitness. Firstly, since childhood, attended the theater class, choreographic school. Danced in the corps de ballet, notably standing out among the others with a turnout, a high step, the ability to instantly grasp the director's ideas. Ira does not know how to sit, lie, relax. Slenderness is her nervous system. She needs to do something all the time. Spend a few hours at beauty salons - not for her.
There are no special secrets of beauty either. Is that - alcohol is often not used, although Ira in this case is a gourmet, an adherent of Chilean wines. She also smokes a lot - a pack a day is required. Refuse from any bad habits is not going to. One of her favorite phrases: "This movie will not be shown twice." Apeksimova's life is precisely this movie. The actress likes to burn herself, she needs any emotions - positive, negative, the main thing - to make it bigger, more powerful. Someone has dependence on alcohol, cigarettes, drugs. And she - from adrenaline. She likes to walk at night, to dance, to drive by car at great speed. Wine, love - all this is a great pleasure. And the ability to fall in love with the years is not quenched.
"I like different men, although I do not like beautiful daffodils. I hate sanctimoniousness in the peasants, especially greed. I like strong ones who do not complain and do not whine. The only thing is, it should not be small, let it be fat and big. he will be a man because in the representatives of the stronger sex I am terribly annoyed by femininity, I do not mean sexual behavior - behavior. And men's tears are not at all scary. Even when they shed them, women still remain stronger.
Another woman should be beautifully looked after. And if you have already begun to do this, be kind, dear, continue to do this all your damned life.
She, really, is not going to rewrite the script of her life. What for? It is spelled in black, and its main author, Irina Apeksimova, manages to avoid stamps and slovenies. It combines, at first glance, incongruous: sensual femininity with restrained masculinity. And this is the real thing in it. Not for fun.