Video: Irina Skobtseva - 92: How the "beauty stamp" did the actress a disservice
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
On August 22, the famous theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Irina Skobtseva will be 92 years old. Many considered her a darling of fate - her career began with the role of Desdemona in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, which became significant for her: on the set, her romance began with actor and director Sergei Bondarchuk, who became her husband, her first role brought her worldwide popularity and title "Miss Charm of the Cannes Film Festival". However, her beauty played a cruel joke on her and became the main obstacle in her film career …
As a child, Irina Skobtseva could not even dream of an acting profession. Her family had nothing to do with the art world: her father was a researcher at the Main Directorate of the Meteorological Service, and her mother was an archivist. When Irina was 14 years old, the war began, and she had to master the school curriculum on her own. After leaving school, she entered Moscow State University, where she studied art history. However, classes in student theater radically changed her life. She participated in all student performances and even then realized that she could not live without a stage.
After graduating from university, Skobtseva entered the Moscow Art Theater School. When she was in her final year, director Sergei Yutkevich chose her from hundreds of applicants for the role of Desdemona in his film Othello. At the Cannes Film Festival, the Soviet film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy won the Best Director award, and debutante Irina Skobtseva was awarded the title of Miss Charm of the Cannes Film Festival. She was able to surpass even the favorite of Hollywood, American film star Kim Novak. Skobtseva said: "".
After this role, directors began to offer her the same type of roles - "marble" beauties, romantic heroines. Later, the actress said that this "beauty stamp" did her a disservice - she dreamed of character, comedic and age roles, and she was seen only in one role. When Skobtseva once again heard compliments from the directors about her appearance, she was upset: "".
It was not easy for her to get rid of the role of “the first beauty”, which greatly limited her creative potential. Therefore, she happily agreed to those roles that allowed her to reveal her acting talent without an emphasis on appearance. So, in the film "Annushka" she played a simple woman who single-handedly raised children in the difficult post-war years. Skobtseva lamented: "".
All her life she had to prove that she can be a versatile actress, and that she owes her loud fame not only to her husband-director. Their marriage was very strong - they lived together for 35 years, and this was also the subject of envy and gossip. Irina Skobtseva did not pay attention to these conversations. "" - she said.
In the images of aristocrats, Skobtseva looked most convincing and organic - as if she herself was from the 19th century. At the premiere of "War and Peace" in Paris, Princess Meshcherskaya approached her and asked: "" One of the few directors who saw in Irina Skobtseva not only a beautiful aristocrat was Georgy Danelia. He called the actress his talisman and trusted her diverse roles: she was a girl with an umbrella in the film "I Walk Through Moscow", the psychiatrist Vera Sergeevna in the comedy "Thirty-Three", the widow Douglas in the children's film "Lost".
She played about 60 roles in films, but still Irina Skobtseva considered her main role to be the role of his wife and mother. When Sergei Bondarchuk proposed to her, he set a condition: they should not part for a minute. And so it was - both on the set and after them, the spouses were together. But once, when Irina was not around, the irreparable almost happened.
It happened on the set of War and Peace. The actress said: "". At that time, she was at home with her one-year-old daughter Alena. Skobtseva found out about what had happened only in the evening and then reproached herself for not being there.
Since then, they have tried not to part for a long time: Sergey Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva.
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