How did the fate of the actresses of the series "Brigade" develop: a successful start of the acting path or an unfortunate mistake?

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

When the Brigade series came out 18 years ago, many called it the main cinema event of 2002. For the actors who played the main roles, he became the start of a successful acting career - all of them were just starting their career then. But for actresses, shooting in a gangster saga could hardly be called an unequivocal success. Some of them, years later, prefer not to remember this fact of their creative biography, because for someone he ruined his reputation, and for many years he did not let someone go beyond the framework of a single role …

Ekaterina Guseva

The main female role - the wife of Sasha Bely - went to 25-year-old Ekaterina Guseva. Prior to that, she acted in films for 5 years, but her most striking film work of this period was only the main role in the film "Serpentine Source". The first resounding popularity came to her only after the "Brigade". Although most critics called the series a monument to the era of the dashing 1990s and a gangster saga that romanticized a criminal lifestyle and heroized gangsters, the director and producer considered The Brigade primarily a melodrama, a film about love and friendship. And therefore, the performers of the main female roles were entrusted with an important mission - to convey these ideas to the audience.

Producer Anatoly Sivushov claimed that he filmed the series under the slogan "mafia through the eyes of mother and wife", the story of Sasha Bely and his wife really became one of the central plot lines, and therefore the actress for this role was chosen with great care. Many were surprised to see Ekaterina Guseva and Valentina Telichkina in the images of the wife and mother of the “main bandit”, because these actresses, who played romantic heroines, were not at all associated with the criminal era of the 1990s.

Ekaterina Guseva herself did not hide the fact that she was a fan of a completely different movie, and therefore did not even read the script completely proposed to her - she chose episodes with her heroine and glued her own script out of them. The actress explained her motives as follows: "". She initially did not want to delve into the twists and turns of the gangster saga, she decided to play melodrama. Perhaps, thanks to this approach, the creators of the series were able to carry out their plan and "humanize" the criminal plot line.

The actress did not expect that after the release of the series, nationwide popularity would fall on her. The most unpleasant thing was that she was identified with her heroine and Guseva was credited with an affair with Bezrukov. For many years, the actress did not answer questions about the "Brigade" in an interview and did not comment on these rumors, and only years later admitted that working with Sergei Bezrukov was very difficult at first. From the very first appearance on the set, he entered the image of a hero-lover, and she was very embarrassed and constrained. There was no understanding between them to such an extent that the director even threatened Guseva to replace her with another actress.

Later they managed to find a common language, but they did not have a romantic relationship, because both at that time had families. Back in 1996, Ekaterina Guseva married businessman Vladimir Abashkin. The actress raised her son and really did not want rumors of an affair with Bezrukov to spoil her impeccable reputation. But how they look harmoniously on the screens was noticed not only by the audience, but also by the directors. They were often offered to act together, but Guseva agreed only 3 years after the "Brigade" to star in a pair with him in the series "Yesenin". After that, the actress avoided meeting with Bezrukov on the set, "so as not to tease the geese" and prevent their tandem from becoming "stamped". And her favorite partner in the cinema Guseva called another colleague - Dmitry Dyuzhev.

No matter how ambiguous the attitude to this series in society was, but it was after the "Brigade" that Ekaterina Guseva turned into one of the most popular and sought-after young actresses. After that, she played about 50 roles in films and TV shows, most of which were the main ones. Now she has no reason to make excuses for the "sins of youth" and shooting in the gangster saga, because she has long proved that she is equally good in different roles and different eras.

Alexandra Florinskaya

The rival of the heroine Ekaterina Guseva, the mistress of Sasha Bely, was played by 24-year-old Alexandra Florinskaya. She began her career at the age of 15 as a model, worked for 7 years in the fashion industry, became the face of a Russian cosmetics company, and in 1997 participated in a beauty contest and won the title of Vice-Miss Russia. After that, she graduated from the acting department of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and began performing on the stage of the Comedy Theater and acting in films. Her first works were supporting roles in the series Streets of Broken Lights-2, Destructive Force-2 and NLS Agency.

In "Brigade" she also got a supporting role, but she was very bright and memorable. It was after this that the actress became popular and recognizable. However, this fame had a downside: the actress was assigned the role of a fatal seductress and a heartless beauty with a model appearance, from which she could not get rid of for many years. The directors did not represent her in other images, and therefore exploited her spectacular appearance, not trusting serious dramatic roles. She had to make a lot of efforts to expand her repertoire and go beyond this role. Today, the 43-year-old actress has more than 50 roles in detective stories, melodramas, comedies and action films.

5 years before the release of Brigade, Florinskaya married a classmate Sergei Gorobchenko, who also became famous after his role in the crime drama Boomer. The couple had a son, but after 6 years of marriage, they broke up. For the second time, the actress married producer Nikolai Bilyk. In this marriage, she had two more children. Many are surprised at how a mother with many children managed to combine work in the theater and in the cinema with raising three children, but she did not take long breaks in her career and was able to remain in demand as an actress.

Maria Poroshina

Maria Poroshina in the "Brigade" got a very small role - the wife of Phil (Vladimir Vdovichenkov) Tamara. Before filming the series, she managed to graduate from the Shchukin School and play about 10 roles in films and TV shows. However, the resounding popularity came to her not even after the "Brigade" - there she was simply not noticed by many, but after the main role in the series "Always say" always ", which she received a year later, and the main roles in the sensational films" Night Watch "and "Day Watch". For the longest time - as much as 9 years - Maria Poroshina appeared on the screens in the image of Olga Barysheva, the main character of the series "Always say" always ", who kept the attention of the audience for 9 seasons.

The acting career of Maria Poroshina was very successful: for 20 years now, several new projects with her participation have been released annually. Filming in the crime saga did not affect her creative biography in any way - after that she played so many diverse roles that no one associates her with the gangster's wife for a long time.

It is surprising that Maria Poroshina also became a mother of many children, successfully combining work and raising children. The 47-year-old actress, in whose filmography there are more than 70 works, is a mother of five children! At the same time, she gave birth to her fifth child, her first son, at the age of 45, and during her pregnancy she continued to play in entreprise and star in the TV series Shuttle Girls.

Another wonderful actress also starred in the Brigade series, who at that time did not even think about continuing her acting career, because she had not starred for a long time and basically refused to play roles in films about bandits. However, the role of Sasha Bely's mother became significant for her and was the beginning of a new stage in her creative career: Why Valentina Telichkina calls herself a "late person".