Actor Ruslan Miroshnichenko about Izium's occupation, departure of relatives abroad and military training: Focus interview
In an exclusive interview with focus, he told where his family lives now, how the economist became an actor, why directors give him most of the roles of "scum" and in which series the audience will see him in a new role. You are one of the most mysterious male characters in Ukrainian cinema. Do you drive a veil about your life? I do not consider myself a media actor whose personal life is very interested in the viewer outside the frame.
I'm just honestly trying to do my job that brings me pleasure and without which I just not imagine my life. Popularity has never been my priority, although I realize that a certain media is the key to success in our profession. But this is a certain dissonance, because I clearly divide professional and personal, and I would not like to have some of my loved ones in the future from my "popularity".
I rarely go to some movie -related party, and I keep my Instagram more to preserve the important moments of my life for myself and my friends. What does Ruslan Miroshnichenko live and do today? Today, like millions of Ukrainians, I try to bring our victory closer. I do this in the ways that I think I get the best. At the beginning of the Great War, I volunteered for a long time, spending strength, energy and money, without thinking about how much I had them at that time.
When I realized that the war was long, I realized that I had to make some money. Some job offers began to appear, and I gradually started to return to my professional activity. Pandemic, then full -scale invasion. In these recent years, many areas have faced challenges and unemployment. Tell us how your acting has changed in recent years? I realized that what I was doing to pandemic and war, I no longer have fun.
For example, earlier I played very actively in the entreprets, but with the beginning of the war, having agreed to two entreprenerals, I realized that it would not satisfy me more. I refused and concentrated on the projects that I think more on time. Thus, in my life, the Azovstal. Voices, dedicated to the defenders of Azovstal, and subsequently the play "Beast", the main theme of which is PTSD (post -traumatic stress disorder) appeared in my life.
So did you give up lighter genres? I'm not saying that you don't need light genres right now. Are needed. Very. Because people get tired of the war and they need to find unloading in something, this is normal. In addition, if there is no quality Ukrainian -language entertainment content, we will never encourage people to completely abandon the Russian -speaking. But while my inner voice directs me a little on other topics.
I also refuse to cinema and serial projects dedicated to the topic of war, because there are not many quality suggestions, and there is too much speculation on this topic. In addition to work, I continue to pay attention to volunteering, a lot of added, and I am constantly studying military affairs. Classes in dash, training, training in weapons, tactical medicine.
Because to own a weapon or fight in cinema is one thing, and in real combat conditions it is necessary that these skills are at the level of neurons. Therefore, constant preparation and sports are an integral part of my life. Your family life. Tell you, you are married, do you have children? Where does your family live now? A family in my life is a very important component, so I am focused on it.
For example, my parents, who had to go to Europe from Izium, where they spent several days under fire, and where they barely managed to leave the day before the city. We see you quite rarely, unfortunately, but constantly in touch. I incredibly miss my hometown, which is now almost destroyed, where I have not been from the very beginning of a full -scale war.
But I feel a little closer to the Motherland, when it is possible to come to my second hometown - Kharkiv, where I studied, where I now visit either to tour or volunteer affairs. I am incredibly rejoicing that my sister with a nephew returned to Kiev to Kiev. At first I was very worried about their safety, and then realized that it was for the better, because my nephew and a godfather returned to my life again, and in his life I have. This is now very important for a five -year -old kid.
I am generally happy that in my life there are relatives and loved people, people I can rely on and which I hope can rely on me. Who in your life Alexander Epstein? And what about the boy Fedor, with whom do you have pictures on the Instagram page? The only thing I can say is that it is a person who is very close to me, who inspires me and which occupies a good enough place in my life. It's all [smiles]. Earlier on the screens you mostly played all kinds of "scum".
In the Two Sisters series did you play a positive character for the first time? It so happens that I used to play "scum" and not very good types. So the directors probably see me, although I hope that it is only their vision, and my loved ones perceive me differently [laughs]. But I do not complain - the bad guys to play more interesting, because they are usually quite difficult and for the actor it is just a clondike of creative searches.
How did you get a role here for you? When I was invited to the casting of the Two Sisters, I tried for the role of Major Igor (nothing surprise, you say). But I was also offered a test for the role of Victor's protagonist than I was very surprised. I will not hide - I was interested in the first role - not only because I "habitually" play bad guys, but also because the fate of this character was more interesting for research.
But the producers still saw Victor in me, and then the puzzles were a little crumbled. Because, indeed, full of heroes, good, positive, as in fairy tales, without bad character traits, I have never played. And the format of the series dictated exactly such a hero. And what were the feelings of changing the role? Is the difference that is noticeable? Having collected everything in the heap, talking to the director, analyzing the actions, the behavior of my hero, I wanted to make a person from him.
It is not a fairy -tale hero who, at first glance, fall in love with the heroine, but a living man, with his complex past, doubts, fears, internal insecurity in his future. A person who transforms as well as all of us learns to live, making mistakes, and then tries to correct them and not always successfully. A person who makes himself and succeeds not only in the profession, but also in his personal life, choosing, and sometimes simply bursting in the fate of his right to be happy.
You played Victor at the age of 20 and then a 40-year-old. How did you reincarnate? Were there any features of makeup? And did the character's game differ at different ages? I needed to understand how to make the difference not only in appearance (for this special thanks to the dressing rooms), but above all internally, in behavior, manner of speaking, posture, actions.
Considering that on some days, both life periods (as we spoke on the court, youth and old age), and the time to gather with thoughts and rest on another age, there was little, I perceived it as a certain challenge to myself as an actor, and tried to do everything possible to reincarnate. It is very interesting how the viewer will appreciate it. In part, I could use my own experience, because just as my hero in my personal life, I won and continue to choose my place in the profession.
Because I came to her in a very late age for the actor. Tell us more about how and when the awareness of you want to be an actor? By the first education, I was an economist and after graduating from the university, I worked for some time in the first specialty. But, as they say, nature took my own - I spent my childhood on stage and without it I do not imagine my life.
So later I entered the Kharkiv University of Arts at the Faculty of Theater, to the workshop to the incredible actor and teacher Yevsyukov Yuri Stepanovich, and at almost 30 years declared that I wanted to be an actor [smiles]. It is clear that our rather conservative movie world responded to me as a self-esteem, because according to the unspoken rules, it is almost impossible to even join the theater university after 27-28 years. I succeeded.