Muscovite Olga Drozdova temporarily moved to St. Petersburg – she plays the main role in the new play “Hollywood Diva”, which is brilliantly staged at the Musical Comedy Theater. The actress told why she agreed to a temporary move, what she learned for the role and how she manages to maintain a working mood during the period of the general autumn blues.
“In my opinion, the blues depend little on the season or the weather and can attack a person at any moment,” Olga is sure. – Previously, in such cases, I just lay down with my blues, because there is no point in resisting her – she will win anyway. It is better to relax and admit: “Yes, I was overcome by the blues!”, And then take it and suffer a lot: feel sorry for yourself, cry, call friends and complain about life.
And even eat your experiences with ice cream and cakes. The main thing is to devote more time to this process and how to suffer through everything that has accumulated.
But this is ideally, and if time is running out, you can try another method: just like a robot, perform mechanical actions: wash the floor, dishes, vacuum. Many people advise to “pump” yourself with positive thoughts in the spirit of “think good!”, But I know from myself that at such moments not a single good thought comes into my head. Therefore, if a melancholy came into your life with the fall, I advise you to do any business.
I have no time to be depressed – so that the image of my heroine in “Hollywood Diva” by Gloria Mills was holistic, I had to work hard, do what I practically did not do before – sing. This is a test for me. This is probably why I did not notice seasonal mood swings, I had no time.
In general, I did not agree to this adventure for a long time. For almost three months they called me from the theater and offered to participate in the musical. I said that I had no hearing, that I only sing in the shower, and that the neighbors would not hear. But they insisted, and I gave up. I decided – okay, we’ll meet, I’ll sing like “In the field there was a birch tree …” – they themselves will be left behind.
We met. Producer Cornelius Baltus, the creator of the legendary “Ball of Vampires”, listened to me for just a couple of seconds and ran out of the room. Well, I think that’s all: she scared the German with Russian folk songs, but no! It turned out that a few notes were enough for him to understand that he was looking for just such a timbre. “