On March 21, the second season of the series starts on TNT “Year of Culture” – regarding a Moscow official who was exiled to work at a regional university.
Actress Maria Akhmetzyanova, who played the main female role, told Teleprogramma.pro regarding the career and spiritual growth of her heroine, commented on joint scenes with Petr Fedorov And Fyodor Bondarchukand also remembered how she herself studied at
philological faculty.
A lot of time has passed since the release of the first season. Did you have any difficulty getting back to your character’s settings?
– When a character is born in you with whom you live for a long time, he remains in your piggy bank. Therefore, everything is quickly remembered, you just need to switch, and you are him once more.
– Maybe the writers prescribed new qualities for Sonya that she didn’t have in the first season?
– Of course, there are changes. As for the female part of my heroine, she flourishes both externally and internally. She has a new man, thanks to whom she begins to feel needed, desired, happy, begins to smile more and, in fact, live.
– Judging by the first episodes, Belozerova has both a lover and an adviser in one person. Tell us regarding the new character played by Pyotr Fedorov. What does he give history? How does he reveal Sonya and other heroes?
– Probably, the appearance of a new hero, played by Petya Fedorov, becomes another spark for this fire. I think it brings out all the characters. Thanks to him, a sip of something new appears: discoveries, opportunities, feelings, relationships between the characters.
He gives my heroine a new female life: she looks good, she is always fresh, always smiling. He quickly switches it. If she has some kind of complex workflow going on, then he will always find what she needs now.
He can just come up and hug her, but for her it will be very important and very necessary at that very moment. They have mutual understanding, feelings and a common cause.
It would seem that this was done to annoy Sychev, but no, she had been waiting for this for a long time, but since she devotes most of her time to her work, her vocation, she simply did not have time to be a woman. And here she had both the opportunity and the desire.
– Was there a casting for the role of Sonya’s new partner? When you found out that Fedorov would play him, what was your reaction?
I found out by accident! I asked who, who will play this role. I was told that it was impossible to disclose, it was a secret. Then our screenwriter and creative producer Ilya Shvetsov asked me to guess. And I guessed! Almost immediately. If you guessed right, then I hit, and they hit. Such artists are a great gift.
When not just a cool artist appears on the site, but also a good person, and all this together is a great success and happiness. I always look forward to Fedor Sergeevich on the court, he is our main inspiration and energy. Without it, a day is not a day. So I’m definitely lucky with my partners.
With Petya there is always lightness, laughter, confidence. It seemed to me as if we had been shooting together all our lives, regarding 100 films together already. No lapping, observation from the side, everything was comfortable and happy at once.
We relaxed, and on trust and confidence, we enjoyed the process.
– We can say that your heroine has achieved her goal and now she has the opportunity to make decisions herself and influence the life of her native university. Did it come as a surprise to you, or did the first season lead to such a development of events?
– I think this is her logical professional growth. In the second season, she changes in terms of women, as I said, and that’s just in a professional way. She is growing, and even more responsibility is placed on her shoulders. This means that she must make even more efforts so as not to let her down, not to lose her face – she is a maximalist, she lives in this profession. The fact that she has the role of a woman, and she likes this role, perhaps sometimes relaxes her, but she always needs to keep herself in good shape, not to forget why she is here, what she is doing, what she is striving for.
– Many of your partners on the set say that the tone of the second season is changing, moving towards dramedy. How do you rate it?
I absolutely agree that the genre has changed. Yes, this is still a comedy, but the creators have removed the grotesque, the bright caricature, we probably exist more in dramedy, romantic comedy, something closer to Soviet cinema. We were all lowered a little from heaven. It’s very interesting what happened.
Has it changed anything for you in terms of acting? In the first season, you said that entering the comedy genre was a new experience for you.
– Yes, then everything was new, I didn’t really understand how to exist, but everything worked out: we all felt each other and helped each other. There is a task from producers, directors, screenwriters, and then we act ourselves. And as for the second season, we were simply told how approximately we should exist this time.
We caught this note, and then we were told: “You yourself know everything.” We were given freedom. And that’s it, then we lived and created as we feel. Naturally, following the first season it is already easier to do, you feel in your place.
– How would you define your acting organics – is it comedic, dramatic? What genre are you more comfortable with and why? What role might be a resistance role for you?
“I hope I am a versatile actress. I am comfortable in any genre. But I guess I still like it when it’s difficult. No, when it is difficult and impossible. Role for resistance, existence for resistance, task for resistance.
For me, a difficult and interesting acting task is one that requires powerful and thorough preparation: if necessary, to study some historical facts, to be in the image of a new person, to live like this for some time, to learn new qualities and abilities, physical training, tricks.
I’m here just the other day to shoot, where something like artificial intelligence – you need to move from person to person. I don’t know yet how I’m going to do it, but I’m wildly interested. In such situations, I immediately say yes, and then the fun begins.
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