Like a cat and a dog: 5 beautiful Soviet film couples who could not stand each other in real life

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

It's hard to believe, but many star couples of Soviet cinema, who on the screen so realistically portrayed tender relationships that they were credited with novels behind the scenes, in fact, did not tolerate each other. It remains only to admire the acting skills of those who managed to convince the audience of feelings that are completely opposite to the present.

When Elina Bystritskaya found out that Sergei Bondarchuk would become her partner in the film "Unfinished Story", she categorically refused to act. The first meeting of the actors took place in her debut work "Taras Shevchenko", and they immediately disliked each other. Once in the buffet Bondarchuk rudely pushed Bystritskaya aside and said something obscene to her. The actress even then harbored a grudge against him, and when they met again on the set of "Unfinished Story", Bondarchuk aggravated the situation, again releasing barbs against her. The director had to make great efforts to persuade Bystritskaya not to give up the role, but he had to promise that he would shoot all her dialogues with Bondarchuk in close-up and without his participation. The film took place and was an incredible success, millions of viewers believed in the love of a woman doctor for her patient, unaware that the actors did not communicate outside the set and pretended that they did not know each other at all.

Several actors were auditioned for the main role in the film "Girls", but as a result Nikolai Rybnikov was approved. By that time, he was already a movie star - after the film "Height" the whole country knew him. And he hoped that together with him in this film they would invite his wife Alla Larionova, but together with her, Svetlana Druzhinina was approved for the role of Anfisa, who later admitted: “”. On the set, they constantly bickered, the actor called his partner an upstart and happily played only scenes of their quarrels. And although Rybnikov and Rumyantseva on the screen very convincingly portrayed a couple in love, behind the scenes their relationship remained very strained.

It cannot be said that the actors who performed the main roles in the film "The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!" they could not stand each other, but they did not feel warm feelings either. Barbara Brylska has repeatedly stated in an interview that she would never have fallen in love with either such Zhenya Lukashin or such Hippolytus. On the set, she categorically refused to kiss Yuri Yakovlev: "".

Olga Naumenko did not feel sympathy for Andrei Myagkov: in the frame she had to play his bride Galya, and behind the scenes the actors did not communicate at all. For this role, she auditioned with Oleg Dal, who claimed the role of Zhenya Lukashin, and with him she felt easy and relaxed on the set. But relations with Myagkov did not work out - according to the actress, he was a very reserved person and did not make contact. Later Olga Naumenko confessed: "".

And if in "The Irony of Fate" the lack of sympathy of the heroes for each other remained "out of brackets", then on the set of "The Wizards" sparks flew on the set. There were legends about the difficult character of Alexandra Yakovleva, who was approved for the role of Alena Igorevna - they said that she got along only with the director and the chief operator, on whom it depended on how she would look in the frame. The actress was constantly late for filming due to the fact that she put on makeup for several hours, while on the set she often forgot her text. Because of this, Valentin Gaft lost his temper and did not hide his irritation. In the end, he refused to act with her, and more than half of the episodes with their participation, his close-ups were filmed separately, and then put together using editing. The actors also came separately to voice their roles.

In addition, there are many curiosities left behind the scenes of the film "The Wizards": Start without the main character and the UFO over the set.