Video: "Too Smart for an Artist": How Igor Kostolevsky, a screen womanizer, turned out to be in real life
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People's Artist of the Russian Federation Igor Kostolevsky so often he played the roles of handsome men and ladies' men in the cinema that many spectators, and especially spectators, do not imagine him in a different role. While both the actor himself and his relatives argue that in real life he is not at all the same as on the screen.
He is often called the darling of fate, but success and recognition cost him great efforts. After leaving school, he worked for 2 years at the Research Institute of the Quartz Industry, then entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, but after the second year he dropped out. He fell in love with a girl who saw only an artist next to her, and for her sake decided to enter the theater. At the Moscow Art Theater, he failed the exams, but at GITIS a year later he was accepted. After graduation, he was enrolled in the troupe of the Theater. V. Mayakovsky and for a long time appeared on the stage only as an extra.
Popularity came to him unexpectedly - after an unknown debutant was entrusted with the lead role in the film "The Star of Captivating Happiness". In the role of the Decembrist, he was so convincing and effective that after the premiere, the directors flooded him with new proposals, and the audience - letters that he received 300 pieces a day.
For his role in the film "And this is all about him" in 1978 Igor Kostolevsky was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize, in 1984 he became an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, and in 1986 he was recognized as the best actor according to the results of a poll by the magazine "Soviet Screen" … However, popularity scared rather than delighted the actor. According to him, she "knocked him down": "". Kostolevsky was skeptical about his success with the audience. "" - he said.
Following the deafening success, disappointment came: he was offered the same type of role of hero-lovers, and he himself saw himself in sharp-character comedic roles. Kostolevsky lamented: "". With age, the actor stopped worrying about the fact that viewers identify him with on-screen characters: "".
He always took his profession very seriously: "". In search of new interesting roles and a new self, Igor Kostolevsky went abroad, which caused rumors that he left Russia forever. However, emigration was not part of his plans. For some time he worked in Norway, and then returned to Moscow.
Since the late 1990s, Igor Kostolevsky rarely appears on screens, refusing many offers: "". He even refused to shoot in Hollywood - he was invited to star in the sequel to "Die Hard" with Bruce Willis, but the script seemed to Kostolevsky "full of cranberries."
Many believe that Kostolevsky, both in cinema and in life, is a womanizer and heartthrob. Of course, he always had a lot of fans, but Kostolevsky lived for 20 years in a marriage with actress Elena Romanova, who claimed that behind the scenes he was not at all what the audience imagined him to be: "".
After 20 years, their marriage broke up, and in 2001 Kostolevsky married a second time - to the French actress Consuelo de Aviland, with whom he has remained for 16 years. At his age, he feels very comfortable and looks great, explaining it like this: "".
His wife gave him a star in the sky, naming it after the hero of the films "The Star of Captivating Happiness" and "The Nameless Star", and in world cinema there is at least 10 wonderful films about the stars of heaven and earth.
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