Video: The irony of fate of the star of the film "For family reasons: How appearance played a cruel joke with Marina Dyuzheva
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She played more than 60 movie roles, but most of the audience remembered only two works: in the image of Lida in the film "For family reasons" and "absurd and contradictory" Anna Adamovna from "Pokrovskie gates". On the screens, she looked like a sweet, gentle, defenseless, touching romantic heroine - this is exactly what the directors saw her. And in life Marina Dyuzheva was always completely different and believed that her pretty appearance deprived her of many opportunities …
She never called herself Marina, this name seemed to her a stranger. Parents wanted to call her Lida, but the midwife in the maternity hospital, looking at the newborn, exclaimed: "Marinka was born!" So the girl got her name. However, as a child, she introduced herself to everyone as Marika, and when she was told at school that such a name did not exist, she began to sign the Mariika notebooks. From this name came "Maria" and "Masha", as her relatives and friends called her.
The discrepancy between her appearance and character manifested itself even in her youth - Marina did not dream of an acting career, and although she wrote poetry and loved literature very much, she was going to enter a medical institute and even thought about becoming a pathologist. Marina went to the entrance exams at GITIS with her friend to support her, and at the same time, just out of curiosity, she decided to read poems and monologues herself. Unexpectedly for herself, she passed the competition. Years later, Marina confessed that if she had a chance to return to those days, she would have made a different choice, because the actor, in her opinion, is too dependent a profession, in which it is impossible to remain the master of his destiny: it is not he who chooses, but he is chosen. And most of the time of his life, the actor does not act in films, but spends in agonizing anticipation: will he or will not be invited to a new film?
Marina Dyuzheva (nee Kukushkina) entered the theater stage only many years after graduating from the theater institute. Having made her debut in cinema at the age of 18, she was so carried away by filming that she even forgot to think about the theater. In addition, before the final exams, the girl married Nikolai Dyuzhev, the son of a high-ranking official, and was afraid that her appearance in any theater would be considered the result of "high patronage." However, this marriage lasted only 3 years, and the actress never used her connections. The only thing that she inherited from her first husband was his surname, under which she became known to the entire Union. At the same time, Marina Dyuzheva herself never chased success and often rejected career opportunities, never having received the title of either a national or an honored artist.
It seemed that she was very lucky in the profession: at the age of 22, a GITIS graduate became a star of the all-Union scale, starring in the film "For family reasons" together with famous actors - Galina Polskikh, Evgeny Steblov, Evgeny Evstigneev, Vladimir Basov, Rolan Bykov and Evgenia Khanaeva. At the same time, she managed to bypass even the director's daughter, Elena Koreneva, on auditions - in the image of the daughter of the main character Marina Dyuzheva turned out to be more convincing. This role has become for her one of the most beloved - the actress admits that this story seemed close and understandable to her both then and now: "".
After this success, the actress starred a lot, but at the same time was not completely satisfied with the roles that were offered to her - the directors saw her exclusively in the images of cute, quivering, weak, often even sugary young ladies. She dreamed of diverse roles, and she was offered the same type of images. Marina Dyuzheva blamed her appearance for this, which, in her opinion, was very deceptive: childish facial features, a disarming smile, always laughing eyes, a fragile figure in no way betrayed the character of "iron Felix" in her (this nickname was awarded to her by her second husband, a journalist and stuntman Yuri Geiko).
The actress admits that, having a masculine mindset, she always avoided sentimentality and was a pragmatist, so the phrase about the “sudden, absurd and contradictory” heroine from “Pokrovskie Gates” is definitely not about her. "", - says Dyuzheva.
In the 1990s. Marina Dyuzheva, like most of her colleagues, was left without work. Then her hobby saved her: the actress loved to knit and did it all day long, handing over ready-made things to a thrift store. This helped her feel useful to her family. Even those directors who were ready to shoot her no longer called her - the actress's husband temporarily left for the United States, and rumors appeared that Dyuzheva herself had emigrated.
Soon she was able to return to cinema, but in a new capacity - as a dubbing artist. Dyuzheva has dubbed foreign films and TV series. At the same time, she was invited to the theater, and she was able to return to the stage - the actress played her last roles in student performances. And in the 2000s. Marina Dyuzheva again found herself in demand in the cinema - after the main role in the series "A Friendly Family", which aired from 2001 to 2004, she often began to receive offers from directors.
Although Marina Dyuzheva loves her profession, she does not exclude the possibility that, with her pragmatism and rationality, she could be successfully realized in other areas: "".
When asked what makes her happy, the actress replies: "".
Modern viewers also recognize themselves in the heroes of this lyrical comedy: Behind the scenes of the film "For family reasons".
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