On February 27, the premiere of the second season of the Double Continuous series will start on the Domashny TV channel. At the end of the first part, the main character Anna performed by Evgenia Dobrovolskaya gets into an accident and realizes that every act has its own price, and sooner or later all secrets will surely emerge. Woman`s Day found out what Evgenia Dobrovolskaya thinks about her heroine, as well as how she has managed to combine raising children and working in cinema and theater for 30 years, what special dish Dobrovolskaya spoils her family with and what needs to be done to preserve beauty and youth.
Do you know the phrase “Small children are small problems, and big children are big problems”? You cannot program a child, because he is a person who independently chooses his own path. Or he doesn’t choose, then it turns into an even bigger problem. In life, as in upbringing, there are no competent calculations or a happy coincidence of circumstances: everything changes every second, and nothing can be done about it.
Happiness is a moment. Small, short, instant, and everyone has their own. Only fools are in a state of euphoria 24 hours 7 days a week, and the happiness of smart people is fleeting and arises if someone smiled at them or said “I love you.” The rest of the time, people do not experience happiness, but struggle with circumstances and survive.
I don’t like it when they say “season two” or “sequel.” For me, the first season was a complete story with an open ending. As for my heroine, the viewer sees her for the first time already in the period when she is not trying to fix or restore anything. Her life goes on as usual: the eldest daughter lives with her former lover’s brother, relations with her husband are bursting at the seams. Anna is trying to cope with a midlife crisis and understand herself as the vector of her life has changed. She changed jobs, started helping women victims of domestic violence, and even changed her hair.
Anna is so deeply mired in the crisis that it is much easier for her to imagine herself in a prison where no one will touch her, and she will finally be able to figure out her life.
Everything can be justified, here the question is different – can a person live with such a stone around his neck? There are many women who fundamentally do not want to have children – this is a personal decision of each person before God and before himself, so I have no right to condemn anyone. Having raised four children, I know all the problems that arise with their appearance, so I can’t just admirably repeat “children are the flowers of life”. They need attention, make claims to their parents and hope that they will support them until old age. I’m not talking specifically about my children, but nevertheless … Previously, the artist had no right to her personal life at all and was obliged to spend all her free time in the theater, and it must be admitted that there was some truth in this. Very often, children of creative people are in every possible way deprived of parental affection, care and love. And my children sometimes complain about my rare presence, to which I always answer: “I work not only for pleasure, but to support you.” For example, I never reproached my parents, but just quietly loved them when they were not around.
Yes, I was lucky and unlucky at the same time: my children, so to speak, are “scattered in time.” The eldest son is already 30 years old, and he lives separately, but the youngest daughter is only 7, and she completely depends on me. Every day I get up at 5-6 in the morning to take her to school, then pick up and do assignments with her. I have been playing the role of a mother for 30 years and I feel that the opportunity to lie on the sofa and calmly read a book will present itself to me only in extreme old age (laughs).
When the difference between the first and fourth child is 25 years old – no, it’s still the same heavy burden. To be honest, I just hate school already (laughs). Of course, there are sane teachers who understand that sooner or later the school will end and a person’s life will continue. However, most of them substitute their function as a learning intermediary for the role of arbiter of destinies. A king whose will should be taken as the ultimate truth. Both in school and in kindergarten, children are simply put in monstrous conditions: they have practically no choice. That is why we have such a huge number of teenage suicides in our country – they just feel cornered … I try to protect my children and explain to them that a top three in mathematics, for example, will not put an end to their future, but sometimes cope with pressure can be incredibly difficult.
To do this, you need to collect so many certificates that your head is spinning!
I have terrible memories, although at the same time I was an excellent student. I will never forget how one of the teachers at the institute all the time strove to expel me, wrote in batches of scathing letters and constantly put sticks in my wheels. And when, after graduation, I became its only graduate who managed to achieve something, I constantly repeated: “Well, I taught you!” It was very funny.
She gradually adapts, learning to write with pleasure. She generally has a very busy life: Nastya attends the Ilze Liepa ballet school and the Kremlin riding school, and plays tennis.
Unfortunately, I haven’t been there since October. At first I was shooting in “Double Continuous”, and then all the time I took away the theater. I play 12 performances a month, and I also have to raise children, do household chores, so free hours are only for sleep.
I cook for the whole family myself, but there are two dishes that I just dream of learning how to make – these are fish cakes and lobio. I love them very much, but, alas, I can’t cook it myself – this is a real disaster for me (laughs).
You will need 2 eggplants, 2 zucchini, 1 kg of tomatoes, 2 bell peppers, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. l. olive oil, 2 cloves of garlic, salt, pepper, herbs. The first step is to bake the peppers for the sauce. To do this, put them in a baking bag and put them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Cut the eggplants into slices, salt and leave for 15-20 minutes, then rinse them under cold water and dry on a paper towel. Cut the courgettes and 700 g tomatoes into slices. Fry finely chopped onions in a frying pan in a little olive oil. Remove the skin from the remaining tomatoes, scald them with boiling water, cut into cubes and add to the pan to the onion. Add peeled and chopped peppers, simmer for 5-7 minutes, then grind in a blender. Pour the prepared sauce on the bottom of the mold and, alternating, put the circles of eggplant, zucchini and tomatoes on top. Grind the garlic and salt separately, add olive oil, herbs and spices to taste, mix everything well and pour over the vegetables with the resulting “sauce”. Cover the tin with foil and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Then remove the foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes. The most delicious ratatouille is ready!
After 40 years, every piece of cake is sure to be put in the wrong place, so I will weigh the pros and cons 100 times before allowing myself the extra. In general, I have a wonderful cosmetologist-acupunctologist-nutritionist Dr. Mukhina, who deals with my entire body.
I have no family recipe as my parents lived in the post-war period. And until 1991, my mother, like all other women of the Soviet Union, had to apply some incomprehensible means to her hair and face. And only later did the women find out that in fact there are various dyes, creams and serums that can prolong youth. I prefer to use the achievements of modern medicine and, whenever possible, visit SPA-salons and do various procedures.
We love to spend time at the dacha, whenever possible we try to get out to the sea. To France, for example.