For a long time, his screen heroes were all bandits and killers. Today the situation has changed. Today, his characters, if not entirely positive, then at least the right ones - the special forces, the yegeri, the majors. At the same time, Igor considers himself ... one hundred percent comic. Because in life he is "soft and fluffy." A cheerful person, adoring to philosophize and good-naturedly teasing himself. Not long ago, when you were wearing the honorary title of "Honored Killer of the Russian Federation", often in an interview they talked about how neighbors are afraid to go with you to the elevator. Say, go, young man, go. We will wait. And then suddenly they said: "They are not afraid anymore." When did the sign-turning point come? I passed several levels of recognition. There was a case: I went to the hardware store, bought something for the house in trifles. As expected, he raised his collar, pulled his cap over his eyes, so that they would not recognize him. A saleswoman as zaoret for the whole store: "What is it you, the artist Lifanov, tell me, they say, all of you are afraid? No one is afraid of you. Normal you are a man, pretty even. " Of course, after such a tirade, all buyers silently staring at me.
Today , when they learn on the street, they giggle for some reason. Why - I do not understand. So you want to take someone by the scruff of the neck, to look closely into the eyes and to hiss: "What am I, a clown ?!" So, let's say, I would see a famous artist on the street - would I really mock the man? Although they better laugh than they are afraid.
Of course better. And then, I remember, in one TV show you announced that you regret that you did not make your serial killer Rocky even more cruel. To young people, after seeing such a freak, thoughtful. This I was talking not only about Rocky - about his entire cinematic collection of freaks. How does Stanislavsky's system: "In a negative character, look for positive features and justify it"?
That's exactly this approach with many artists played a very evil joke in the family life of Igor Lifanov. Take the same "Brigade". Who are the guys from the gang of Bely - noble bandits, or what ?! The enchanted circle. I will not stop repeating: you show good and good on the screen of a finished villain, then, as an artist, you're just a bastard. Because adolescents for themselves all in their own way decide: if such supermen are wetting everyone in a row, then they are excellent, right boys. Such a negative effect was due to the fact that the guys who shot in the "Brigade", very much loved their characters, and did not find the strength to cut off unnecessary.
One day a colleague told me that his 13-year-old son with his friends decided to create a "cool team" in the classroom. And in honorary members forever (!) Take the actor Sergei Bezrukov, because he in the image of Sasha Bely - their idol. Another photo in the frame in the class on the wall hung. To be honest, after this story, it became creepy. At the very fact that my daughter was growing up. No, let them hate me better than the same Rocky in honorable Komsomol define. Remember how many girls after "Interdevochki" dreamed of becoming prostitutes! We, the actors, of course, do not think about such consequences. We sign the contract, we play, we get money - and adieu. But the people selflessly embodies our screen exploits. After a large pleiad of killers and hooligans, you began to play a positive role. Directors finally managed to discern in you not a complete gloominess and bestial grin, but the purity of the soul, or are you tired of the monotonous material? I started acting in the dashing 90's. Then all of these rockets and other urkagans were in demand. Thank God, now this wave has passed. But I'm an artist, after all. Give a role - play.
Once rashly told Ukrainian, by the way, journalists that I want to play "blue". Imagine what began? But I had something else in mind - the fact that I like any character as an artist. You need a good Major Pugachev - get it. Thirst for a positive, albeit a gloomy huntsman - not a question. Of course, I'm talking about this with a sly point, but it can not be otherwise. Time is different. No one, as before, "Seagull" for two years to rehearse and at the same time ohat with happiness will not. Two months - a maximum. The pace is different. Today it is necessary to live not according to Stanislavsky, but on the furious tempo-rhythm of life. In your record, the film "Letters to Elsa" stands apart. Oh, and you are a bastard there! In a real family life, Igor Lifanov with such types had to face?
My role there is small, but significant. It's not interesting for me to play one hundred toothless consecutive series of one toothless man. Even if I say something in the episode that is enough to satisfy my acting ambitions, believe me, no Hamlet will be needed. I have my own Hamlet in every performance. And as for the geeks, they are all around us, at every step. I've seen worse. But the artist does not need to immerse himself in such material. Students of theater universities sometimes look at the subway - who, as it walks, limps. Probably, this is the first step. But an accomplished artist is a compilation. The rest you finish. At me in such cases in a head the certain computer joins. I've never fought, I've never been in prison, and I'm mistaken for my military and the cons. And even more so the artist does not need to kill a person to enter the image of the killer. Igor, it is true that in the early 90's you starred in the first Russian erotic, almost porn film "Fun-4"? Directed there yet Dmitry Meskhiev was listed.
Not porn it was - erotic! I realized where I'd gotten myself, when the trial was over. Meskhievaya, by the way, did not see. There, different directors shot their little novels. This role can not be called. I go into the room, there is a naked woman sleeping. I just touch her, she still has some kind of horse. I earned 300 dollars - for those times the sky-high sum, I bought the first Japanese TV in my life. I watched and enjoyed it. But this I now calmly tell you about it. And then I know how awkward, how embarrassing it was! All his life he cursed. Well, it's like lying with a strange aunt. No, it's not for me. Disgusting. Well, yes, whether it's a grenade in trenches or with a submachine gun in the snow. It always seemed to me that actors such as you, getting on shootings in endless extreme conditions, risk or frostbite, or something to break yourself, pah-pah ... Virtually every actor on the set got it. But then we are artists. When I was in the movie "Trap for the killer", the stuntman, making a pirouette in the air, moved me with a shoe. Yes, so that I turned off. Open my eyes - the whole frightened film crew bent over me. They say that on the set of "Special Forces-2", where you played a good warrior Khrust, you were dropped several times from the stretcher ...
No, they did not . And the scene was really funny. Initially it was planned that the litter on which the wounded Crunch lies will be carried by two donkeys. But stubborn animals did not want to work. Therefore, on the mountains, I had to drag the poor guys to colleagues. And if at the beginning of the filming they teased me: "Something you have, Igorek, not very good - a couple of replicas of all", then now I have come off in full. The camera takes off their emaciated faces, and from below I triumphantly: "Of course, I do not have enough text, but you drag me on yourself." At this point, the most difficult thing for the guys was not to laugh.
Igor, in an interview you confessed that a few years ago, for a company with a close friend, Dmitry Nagiyev, completely tied up with bad habits, in particular with a drink. And that, since then, not a gram?
Well, why? The word "tied up" sounds somehow categorical. Nagiyev and I are not just friends, we are like brothers. Together LGITMiK ended, together with the girls priudarali. And they fought together on Nevsky Prospekt. In one of the showdown the local brother Dima Nos broke. Well, they drank so that be healthy. In a word, we had a cheerful way of life. Then they grew wiser, they seized the horses. Dima slowed down a little, I did not. Everyone has his own temperament. Igor, how do you shoot with such a frenzied rhythm of stress shooting, how do you relax?
Yes, what kind of stress! Here, for example, today I'm going to take pictures for the whole night. I'll be home at six in the morning. I'll take a shower, go to bed. So this is the kind of happiness: I'm lucky because I got such a profession, and I have something in it. So why should I rest from it? I do not understand the nagging of some colleagues: "Ah, I'm tired! Oh, how I got bored of these shootings! "Yes, we have to act in an extremely intense pace, especially when several projects and deadlines are under pressure. Somehow I worked without sleep for three days. A little sleep - and enough. So what? I'll have to, I'll have three performances in a row, and I'll play ten. It's really cool - I'm charging myself from the audience. Once you told a chilling story about the exchange of your old, Soviet, passport for a new, Russian. In this regard, you still have unresolved problems with citizenship. It was only President Putin who could help the artist. Igor, have you decided the question? Several years ago, as a law-abiding citizen, I went to change documents in St. Petersburg. An was not here at all.
The passportist asked insinuatingly: "My dear, and where did you live before?" Having learned that in the Ukrainian city of Nikolaev, went on the attack: "So now you are a stateless person." That is, not even a homeless person - no one at all. You can not imagine how many cabinets I've bypassed, how many papers I signed. It's all useless. The situation was further complicated by the fact that in the old passport I accidentally damaged the first page, and the first two letters dropped from the surname. Well and where, it is asked, to me with a surname of Fans? And for the damage of state property, which was the passport of a citizen of the USSR, had to be exhausted.
When finally came a certain fame, I had to seek help from the First Channel, which raised my question at the level of the Ministry of Justice. Volokita lasted a year and a half. Of course, when I was a "man of the world", it was a shame. At that time my daughter was born, so she was a Russian citizen by documents. And her dad is a bum ... Igor, how old is Nastya now? Fourteen.
Igor, with the future has already decided?
No. And I do not interfere in this process. One thing I know for sure: she will not be a physicist or botanist. Most likely, he will choose some kind of pre-creative profession. I used to take it with me from the very childhood. At the same time he brought up so that he could stand up for himself. We went to the gym with her, I taught her various combat techniques, which she quickly mastered. Every morning - a hard charge and an ice shower.
At the same time, Nastia was a pretty amorous girl, every day - a new object of sighing. Once she began to unevenly breathe on my colleague from the BDT. I decided to make the child enjoyable and introduced them to each other. This very respected artist was warned in advance about the feelings of a little fan. The one, as expected, began to broadcast in a delivered voice: "Hello, Nastya. How are you? What do you want to tell me? "And then our beauty, apparently, from an overabundance of feelings, sunshine so smiled, cilia clapped and ... like a hero-lover's leg kicks! He, the poor fellow, bent and groaned in a tight voice: "What a good girl! Do not forget to pay your dad a low bow. " Nastya is your daughter from your first marriage. Relations with his ex-wife Tatyana remained normal? Yes, and I'm very happy about that. You know, at first I was jealous of those who told me in a cheerful interview, say, I'm such a good soldier, divorced, and I do not regret anything and sent everyone. This does not happen. Any family disorder is very difficult.
The former wife is also an actress. Maybe just two bears did not get along in one lair? Oh, yes you are! I, you know, always have one bear in its lair. Here the point is different: they stopped loving. Your director Elena is your second wife. Is not it difficult day after day to be together 24 hours a day? I'm very good with her. And I am glad that I have the opportunity to make a condition: I will come to the shooting only with my wife. Imagine, the whole day I'm burning on the set in some hut. I go out all smeared, terrible. And at home - be it Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia - I will immediately be washed, and combed and fed. Than not life?