themselves to be idle and moreover those people can get satisfaction of being idle. To enjoy life, being innocent of supertasks and obligations.
- Daniil, you’ve already performed both positive and negative heroes…
- I don’t divide roles in positive and negative…
- How’s that? There is a hero – he is either good or bad.
- There are neither good nor bad people. All people are different. Another cup of tea when public opinion or the fraternity of the Press push these or that roles or these or that actors into certain frames or lines of business. What one can do with this? Let’s assume when I’ve performed Yury Sharok, the absolute majority of people told me: “ Well done! What a villain you’ve played! What a bugger you are, Strahov!” But the entire role is made on positive charm. The whole one. From the beginning to the end.
- For yourself, did you explain his deeds away?
-Certainly. It cannot be otherwise. To play every role one must explain away the doings of the screen character.
- Could you say more precisely?
- Sharok is a person that is frightened to do something wrong, who is afraid to make a choice. If you would watch the film attentively, you must see that he hasn’t taken a single decision. The destiny took all decisions for him. He hasn’t performed, as a matter of fact, a single deed. And just due to his being an amazingly lucky man he stayed alive for so long. The same, relatively speaking, concerns Pankratov.
- You said Sharok didn’t perform a deed? How so? He went to work in the organs…
- He didn’t! He was proposed to do so! And when someone was proposed to work for NKVD (People’s Committee of Internal Affaires)– one realized he had no choice
-There’s always a choice. Sharok is simply a coward.
- (Pensively). In some things he certainly is a coward. But being a coward is not a vice, it is an entity. Do you know how many cowards did heroic deeds at war? Just due to their chicken-hearts, anxiety. When a person is not afraid, he is a fool. The other side of it, which deeds he performs out of his cowardice. I would not blame such people. Each of us has his own anxiety and pain
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