Why Ekaterina Guseva avoided filming with Sergei Bezrukov: Secrets of the most famous on-screen couple of the early 2000s

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

One of the most popular television films of the early 2000s. became the series "Brigade", the debate about which does not subside until now. He was called the Russian gangster saga and a monument to the era of the 1990s, he was accused of glorifying bandits and romanticizing a criminal lifestyle. But the director of the film, Alexei Sidorov, claimed that he actually made a movie about love. The story of Sasha Bely and his wife is really one of the central ones in the plot. The married couple performed by Sergei Bezrukov and Ekaterina Guseva looked so harmonious that many attributed the novel to them behind the scenes. How far was reality from fiction?

Although almost all the actors who took part in the filming of this project, "Brigade" brought the first resounding popularity, today they do not like to remember this episode of their film career - the fame of the series about bandits was too scandalous. Pavel Maikov years later called him a crime that harmed society, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Ekaterina Guseva for several years generally refused to speak in an interview on the topic of the Brigade, and Sergei Bezrukov is still maddened by any mention of Sasha Bely - too often he heard that this character "looked through" in each of his next images and was the most convincing role in his entire film career. However, there was one more reason why Guseva and Bezrukov refused to talk about the Brigade for a long time.

In the series, Ekaterina Guseva played the wife of the protagonist, and on the screens she and Bezrukov portrayed a couple in love so convincingly that they were credited with a novel outside the set. The press has repeatedly written that the actor's marriage is on the verge of collapse precisely for this reason. To this Bezrukov replied: "". At the same time, Bezrukov himself fueled interest in their pair, saying in an interview: "".

Ekaterina Guseva admitted that she always loved a completely different movie and before filming did not even read the entire script - only episodes with her heroine, and glued her script out of them. She did not want to delve into the plot twists and turns of the next gangster saga, and she played her line as a melodrama: "". Thanks to Ekaterina Guseva and Valentina Telichkina, who played the mother of the protagonist, this series turned out the way the director wanted it to be - about love that does not choose and does not know conventions.

The popularity that fell upon her after The Brigade came as a complete surprise to her - no one expected that the debut director's project with little-known actors would be so successful. They stopped her on the streets and, calling Olya - by the name of her heroine, asked why she had returned from abroad, because her husband gave her a house there. The complete identification of the actress with her heroine surprised and upset Guseva, but the worst was yet to come. She never liked to talk about her personal life, but after rumors about their romance with Bezrukov became a statement of fact, she was forced to comment on this situation.

Usually she was either silent about their relationship, or answered evasively - they say, no one understands what kind of "real" Sergei Bezrukov he is. Over the years, she admitted that it was difficult for her to work with him, especially at first. In the very first days of shooting, they had to play scenes where they were already spouses, and the actors just met in real life. Bezrukov immediately "rushed into battle" with the pressure of a hero-lover, and Guseva was squeezed and felt embarrassed. There was no understanding between them, and the director warned them that if they did not find a common language, the heroine would need to be changed. Then they began to communicate more and take a closer look at each other, and as a result made the whole country believe in their feelings. And later Guseva spoke of Bezrukov as "".

In fact, both actors had families at the time. 2 years before filming in the "Brigade" Sergei Bezrukov married actress Irina Livanova, and Ekaterina Guseva, back in 1996, married businessman Vladimir Abashkin, in 1998 they had a son, in 2010 - a daughter. She never talked about her family, carefully protecting her personal life from prying eyes, but then she had to talk about her marital status in order to put an end to conversations about their romance with Bezrukov.

For the same reason, Catherine for some time deliberately avoided filming with the actor - "so as not to tease the geese." In addition, they both tried to avoid the "stamping" of their tandem. And offers to act together were received regularly, because they were then called the best on-screen couple. As a result, after 3 years they still met again on the set of the series "Yesenin", where Bezrukov played the main role, and Guseva played his beloved Augusta Miklashevskaya.

Nevertheless, the actress calls another star of the Brigade, Dmitry Dyuzhev, her favorite movie partner. In an interview in 2012, she said: "".

Since then, each of the actors of this series has built a successful film career, and today they are all very reluctant to remember this project: The scandalous glory of the "Brigade".