Video: From "chicken tobacco" to "Moscow Bruce Willis": Why Leonid Yarmolnik appears on the screens less and less
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
January 22 marks the 64th anniversary of the famous actor, producer and TV presenter Leonid Yarmolnik … For 40 years of his film career, he starred in more than 80 films, creating very vivid and recognizable images. The master of improvisation has always turned even an episodic role into a masterpiece. However, in the last decade, Yarmolnik appears on the screens very rarely, does not participate in talk shows and is extremely selective about proposals to act in films, and he has his own reasons for this.
Leonid Yarmolnik dreamed of the acting profession since childhood, while still at school he studied in a theater studio, so there was no doubt about the choice of the further path. After graduating from the Shchukin Theater School, he became an actor at the Taganka Theater. Yarmolnik spent 8 years there and he always remembered this time with special warmth - after all, he happened to go on the same stage with Vladimir Vysotsky, Valery Zolotukhin, Veniamin Smekhov, Alla Demidova and other famous artists. True, Yarmolnik himself got mainly episodic roles, and after Efros came to replace Lyubimov, he had to leave the theater altogether, since the new director did not see the prospects of working with him.
Yarmolnik's film debut took place in 1974 in the film "Your Rights", although for several years his film works remained virtually unnoticed by the public. Popularity came to him in 1979, when the actor appeared in the TV show "Around Laughter" with a miniature "Chicken Tabaka". This number had such a success with the audience that for many years it became his calling card and consolidated the nickname "chicken" for him. In the same year, his friend Alexander Abdulov recommended him to the director for the role of the son of the protagonist, spoiled Theophilus in the film “The Same Munchausen”.
Even small episodes with the participation of Yarmolnik were immediately remembered by the audience and diverged into aphorisms, largely due to the actor's skill in improvisation - he completed many roles on his own, in the process of filming. So, in the film "The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines" Yarmolnik often improvised, adding movements and intonations not written in the script to his hero Martin. And the phrase "Seems to me, gentlemen, it was a comedy" became an aphorism. Yarmolnik also invented details of his character's image on the set of the film "Look for a Woman", where he got the role of policeman Maximian. The actor approached even small roles with all seriousness: "".
In 1993, Vlad Listyev invited Yarmolnik to television, and he became the host of the programs "L-Club", "Gold Rush", "Garage" and "Hotel". At the same time, he also took up the production of films, in many of which he continued to act as an actor. The most notable works of this period were "Moscow Holidays" and "Crossroads".
Most viewers perceive Yarmolnik primarily as a comedian, although dramatic roles are given to him no less brilliantly. One of the most difficult, interesting and iconic works, he considers the role of Don Rumata in the film by Alexei German "It's hard to be a god", which took almost 15 years to shoot.
Recently, the famous TV presenter and actor appears on the screens less and less. He explains his position as follows: "".
He is extremely selective about the proposed roles - only if the script seems interesting, and the plot is not trivial. Yarmolnik admits that there are very few worthwhile offers, and the level of the series is completely disheartening: "".
One of the last acting works of Leonid Yarmolnik is the role of the head of the classified department, who fights against evil spirits, in the film "Night Guards" (another name is "Wings"). To make his character look more brutal, the actor agreed to shave his head. He amuses himself in this way very much. "", - Yarmolnik jokes.
The actor spent more than 30 years with one woman, whom he calls his destiny. Leonid Yarmolnik and Oksana Afanasyeva: a boring marriage that turned a womanizer into an exemplary family man.
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