Actress Natalia Bochkareva jokes that the barrel from which her surname originates was probably filled not with anything but with energy. I have a lot of it. I'm charging positive from the sun - only a third. There are, of course, moments of fatigue. But I can not afford to be depressed, and I remain an optimist in life. Did you have a nickname at school? My name was Bocha. And now some colleagues in the theater call me that. I'm okay with this: the nickname for a long time seems to me affectionate. Enemies at school were? Yes. There was one boy - Sergei Morozov. He pulled me over the hats, pompons, for the puff on the hood. As I later realized, I wanted to attract my attention in this way. But then I even went to do judo to take revenge. True, I did not last long. I thought it was like in karate: you stand, wiggle your hands, kick, jump, skachesh, you throw yourself at your abuser. And then we were forced to roll on the floor. I had a fat boy in my partners. We with him like two buns skated. The coach showed different captures, techniques, how to sit on top of the enemy, to break his hand ... And now I was sitting on this boy and I thought: how will I lie in class with my enemy? Nevertheless, I still remember some judo techniques. I also got a heavy hand from my mother. So I can stand up for myself. However, I try not to use force.
- Do you have any difficulties with your parents?
-Yes, I did not like kindergarten, I ran away from there, could not stand the pioneer camp, where I was sent in the summer. I did not understand all the time why I had to go up to some "Pioneer Dawn" at seven in the morning and do exercises, if I went on vacation and I want to sleep? Because of this, I did not like school. I liked to study, but I do not have to get up early. Ten years literally endured - almost like Robinson Crusoe, stabbed - how much more I still have to learn and endure.
-The things you did not like?
"It seems to me that in our Soviet school, some subjects were taught like this, which could not be otherwise. For example, I hated programming. A trip to the computer class for me was equated with a visit to the dentist. This is now the children from five years sitting at the computer and are able to do things that many adults can not do. I did not know how to do it in my childhood, although I'm a Lev on a horoscope, I'm used to everything. But in general I was an insane child. And with this frenzy I did not want to part. But you want, you do not want - it was necessary to grow up.
- How did this happen?
- In the hassle. Years from 9 I was given to all sorts of mugs. I studied dances, burned, sang chastushki and attended a theater studio. I did not have time to run around the yard. I also graduated from the school of models. Although I do not have the same high growth that is required in this business. Yes, and I dreamed of something else.
- What were your dreams about?
- For example, I wanted to grow long hair. My mother always cut me on the shoulders. She cut her dad - yes, so that he had five years later, then his hair did not grow. Repertoire "Tender May" still remember? Previously, I knew - yet these whiny songs sang. Under them it was a pleasure to sob. And then came the age of transition, interests began to change. In addition, I wanted to grow up sooner. I began to like boys, they were all older, I did not pay attention to peers. I remember when I was sixteen, my brother Andrew went into the army. There were noisy farewells, and at this party I liked one of his friends who was older than me for eight years. He also drew attention to me. And I was very worried that he would not recognize my real age. She asked my brother to say that I already have eighteen. True, I was immediately exposed when asked where I was studying. Lied that in the technical school. Then they asked me what we were going through. And I had no idea.
-You are an actress, of course, since childhood dreamed of being?
- First I wanted to be a journalist. I even tried myself in this profession, although she did not stay long at all. If I stayed in it, now I would probably create some author's program devoted to an interesting topic. Thank God, my tongue is somehow suspended, there are a lot of ideas in my head. So the only thing - would have to make an effort to embody all this, or, as they say, convince the investor.
-The journalists who come to you for an interview, sympathize?
-Should say with regret: very few journalists who own the profession. After all, we were taught: if you go to a meeting with the hero of your material, then it would be nice to prepare. And how does it work with us? A correspondent comes, I tell him: "We have in the USG ..." And he: "Are you playing at the Moscow Art Theater?" Well, is that possible? After all, you need to know something about the interlocutor, in the end, to bring him to some kind of frankness, to find out exclusive information. Yes, and that the interview hero was interested. After all, they ask the same set of questions. Sometimes I even want to say: go to the Internet, type my name in the search engine, and all the answers to your questions there will read. And do not waste time pouring from empty to empty. Therefore, you always expect a special question from the journalist, which will allow you to open up differently in a conversation with him. For example, I like to philosophize, talk on topics that are relevant, for example, for our country.
"We will now do this." You in fact know actress Ekaterina Vilkovu which too comes from Nizhni Novgorod?
-Yes, we know each other. I am proud to have studied at the Nizhny Novgorod Theater School. There I got the necessary base for a young actress, which was very useful to me at the MHLT School-Studio. It required a lot of work on their own, no one would nurse me and analyze the fragments. Have given the task - you cook. And, of course, young, quite green guys were in utter confusion. Go and ask the master - scary. And in this sense it was easier for me - I already had a school behind me.
- How can an artist understand that everything turns out for him, that he moves and develops in the right direction?
- Personally, it's hard for me to talk about myself, that I have achieved something. Just gradually, you feel that the possibilities are getting wider, and you can try yourself in different projects. You always want different roles. Usually actors have a certain role. But every comedian wants to play a dramatic role, and the tragedian thinks about the comedy. And there are always unattainable roles.
-How much in your case does the supply and demand coincide?
"If you want to know if they've offered me that cherished role that I'm waiting for, then no." Not yet offered. I save experience, try myself. For example, after the same role as Dasha Bukina from the sitcom "Happy Together" on TNT, I realized that I can play age roles.
-How did you react when you were offered to play the forty-year-old Dasha?
- I was then 25 years old, and my ideas about a forty-year-old woman were purely theoretical. Of course, I watched the women and understood that forty years was a serious milestone. There are several such critical moments in a woman's life. The very first in three years, then from 12 to 15, then at 18. Then at 30, 40. Next - who as. I am now thirty, and I have just such a milestone. I sum up the results: what did I have by this time, what is it capable of. And yet there is a feeling that the big and the best part of life is ahead and it's not too late to change anything and fix it now.
In forty years the situation is more complicated. Then, as I understood, the main thing is to achieve internal stability. For a woman, this is very important. This gives both confidence and peace, against which one can live well. It is necessary to feel that you have taken place. It so happens that many women by this age are overgrown with grievances because of everyday problems. I did not achieve what I wanted in the profession, did not develop in my personal life, I sacrificed something for the sake of the family and children - the load of offenses can be very difficult. By the way a person grows old, one can understand what kind of life he has lived. You will be able to regain your inner balance in forty years, choose the right mood - you will grow old beautifully. Dasha Bukina likes me because she is positive at forty. Moreover, that he lives with past victories. Once she was "Miss Deryabino", she did not achieve anything in life, but she married Gena and gave birth to two children. But kept the most important thing - a good mood. She does not take offense at anyone and thanks to her sense of humor experiences all sorts of crisis situations. Which, of course, reflects on her appearance: she is so bright and cheerful that, even if the world flood begins, she will look the best on it.
Do you feel the mood and intonations of your heroine?
- Probably, to people from outside who know, what I in a life, it is more appreciable. There are situations when I have to joke "use" Dasha. For example, in communication with traffic cops. But I Dasha also gave the elements of her behavior. In general, to say definitely where I am, and where Dasha Bukina - is not easy. The Larger Races on the First Channel helped to lose weight even more. But there was losing weight from nerves. It's here, sitting at the screens, it seems that this show, the game, and when you are inside the process, when the rivals Ukraine, the United States, China, you wake up patriotic feelings, and you begin to be happy for the Russian land. I'll gnaw these boards, swim, do anything, just to win. On the very first day I broke all my nails, was all bruised and did not even notice how it all got. But inside there was a pride, that to the command though small, but a victory has brought. As a result, I dropped five kilograms. Now, to spend calories, I spin like a squirrel in a wheel.
- What is it like: to have one's own family, and spend most of the time with someone else's, serial?
- And it really is: I spend much more time with the Bukin family than with my husband and children. It's good that they understand this. Often come to the shooting - as in a crazy house we visit. Sit down, we'll have a cup of tea, and they go on their business, and I - to act.
- Have you ever called Nikolay Gena's husband's house, that is, by the name of your TV husband?
- Thank God no. I rather call Genya Kolya, rather than vice versa. Besides, Gene and my husband are opposites. One plus, another minus. However, the presence of two husbands - official and serial - does not help me to better understand men.
- Tell me, why do you have children all the time in the winter born?
- Apparently they become New Year's gifts.
-Your children know what their mom does?
-I think they are still in the process of realizing what the profession of an actress is. I impart to them the love of the theater. We have a puppet theater near the house, we go there - they like it. Ivan also adopted my love of drawing. And he also hates pencils and felt-tip pens from childhood, as I hated them. I loved colors. So he often takes up the brush.
- Would you like to have a daughter like Sveta Bukina?
- Masha is only two years old, but Svetka has already bypassed something - at least on an intellectual level for sure.
- Do you have any thoughts that, while filming in the sitcom, do you miss how your children grow up?
- Such a period was. When Masha and Vanya were small, nursing, defenseless, I was very worried about this - my mother's instinct did not bother me. And as soon as I had a free minute, I flew home to spend a little time with them, and then again to return to the shooting of the series "Happy Together." Now I have become calmer. First, children have matured, and secondly, they themselves began to understand that my mother must go to work, earn money. Little Vanya goes to kindergarten - this is also a kind of his work. He, however, does not earn anything, but he is paid machines. And more: in a week I single out one day, which I spend entirely with children. If this week did not work out, then the next weekend will be two.
Do you agree that there are limited opportunities in the Russian province? Although among your colleagues there are also those who would prefer to become a star of the regional theater, rather than go for vague prospects to Moscow.
-Yes, but if you compare Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow, then in the capital field of activity is still much wider. Take, for example, the fact that there are about two hundred theaters in Moscow, and seven in the Lower. Although, maybe now there are new ones. The standard of living in Moscow is also an order of magnitude higher. But I must say.