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The actress who played Valentina Serova (Star of the Epoch) and Empress Catherine has a new spectacular heroine – the singer Claudia in the TV series Born by a Star. While Claudia takes her first steps on stage, Marina Alexandrova answers our questions about children, men, professions and rebellion.
1. Describe yourself in four words.
Woman, mother, daughter, wife.
2. What irritates you often?
Dilettantism and rudeness. And I don’t know how to respond to rudeness – somehow I immediately get lost. But when I encounter unprofessionalism in my work, I quickly boil. I am offended that people who are engaged in a creative profession spare themselves and do not spend fully, as they should. It seems to me that any person who chooses this or that profession subscribes to doing his job with high quality, and not to look for excuses for his hack work. The mistakes of “healers of souls” are no less expensive than the mistakes of doctors.
3. What is your craziest spending?
I have had so many of them in my life (laughs) … And these are always bags. I buy them on a whim. Sizes, shapes, firms change over the years. But the love for this accessory is unchanged.
4. What would you change about yourself?
I would like to be more patient. I’ve never been able to do this – take a break, count to ten, exhale, and then tell people what I don’t like. I immediately burn all the bridges, and then diligently build them. I cool down very quickly and have already learned to ask for forgiveness, but I still don’t like this intolerance. Strong emotions prevent others from hearing me to the end, which means understanding and forgiving me. Maybe the idea I want to convey is correct, but the wording and tone should be changed.
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5. Are you a rebel or a conformist?
Rebel, of course. This is expressed in the very intolerance of rudeness and unprofessionalism that I spoke about. And in disagreement with the world order in a broader sense of the word. And those closest to you suffer as a result.
6. Who is your example?
Different areas have different people. But first of all, my parents are an example for me – in relation to people, to life, to children (to me and to grandchildren) and to each other.
7. Who do you usually consult with?
If the situation concerns the internal affairs of the family, then with her husband, of course. And if we are talking about professional things, about resolving some kind of conflict situation, then I often consult with my parents.
8. A movie or play that helped get you through hard times.
I remember when I left my parental home for Moscow at the age of 16, I was very lonely there. And when something didn’t work out in school or the mood was completely bleak, then my classmate and now close friend Olga Lomonosova and I went to Lenkom to see the play Juno and Avos, then still with Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov. Olga had some familiar musicians working there, and we watched Juno from the orchestra pit, from the balcony, from backstage, in general, from all sides. The performance helped me a lot. Music, love – all this gave strength to live on in an unfamiliar city.
9. When did you become the person you are now?
It seems to me that my husband has a very noticeable influence on me. Before I met him, five years ago, I was a completely different person. And besides, I became a mother, which also changes a woman very much.
10. What are you most proud of?
With my children.
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11. What is the biggest difference between a man and a woman?
In everything. We are completely different people, from different planets. And men can’t have children.
12. What is your favorite way to procrastinate?
Actually, I try not to procrastinate. I prefer to do what needs to be done right away. I am very burdened by debts and unfulfilled obligations.
13. If you weren’t yourself, what would you like to be?
It took me so long to learn to live in the here and now that I probably don’t want to be anything other than who I am today. I want to live for today and today’s emotions. This is the hardest part.
14. What is the secret to a happy life?
In children, absolutely. Because work, interesting roles, career – all this, of course, is wonderful. But children, by and large, are the most important thing that remains after you. A woman with the birth of a child becomes much less ambitious and more gentle, homely. When a child grows up and starts asking an incredible amount of questions, a completely different world opens up before you. After all, we, adults, live by inertia and usually do not think – why do bugs fly, but people do not? Why do flowers wither? Why is one food delicious and another not? My son recently asked: “Mom, you have such a small navel, how will your little sister get out of there?” You start looking for answers to all these questions and discover the world anew. It’s like you’re living a second life. For me, this is real happiness.
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Marina Aleksandrova, 33, theater and film actress, has played in more than 45 films and TV series, including Empire Under Attack, Northern Lights, Star of the Epoch, All inclusive, or All Inclusive, Ekaterina ”, “Executioner”, as well as several main roles in the Sovremennik Theater, where she worked for 5 years (2006–2011). In July 2012, Marina and director Andrei Boltenko had a son, Andrei, in September 2015, a daughter, Katya. In the television series “Born by a Star”, directed by Marat Kim and Vladimir Shevelkov for the TV channel “Russia”, Marina plays the singer Claudia Koval (premiere – October 12, 2015).