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Oksana Fandera

At the last "" we managed to catch in our nets: while the actress was "lighting up" on, "Gossip" conducted a blitz interview and made a blitz photo shoot. Moreover, Oksana, as a creative and active person, instantly became interested in the process and herself came up with a concept for shooting - black and white shots in motion.

You come to the festival almost every year, can you remember your brightest Kinotavr?

I can say what made the strongest impression on me at this Kinotavr. And this is not a feature, but a documentary film - the tape of Lyuba Arkus "Anton is right here!". This is a movie about autistic children.

What projects are you currently involved in?

Now I have two new films coming out. The first is a film by Boris Khlebnikov "Until the Night Parts". The second - by the young director Yegor Baranov, is called "The Nightingale the Robber". And two more projects are just starting, I don't want to talk about them yet.

What role do you dream of?

In the one I dreamed of, I will shoot this fall. What is your favorite movie?

Well, it's just impossible to say... There are a lot of them. What is your favorite clothing brand?

You see, I love those things ... Well, those brands that are not redeemed by a fashionable party, you can say so. Whose style do you like?

Kate Moss style.

What is it not a pity to spend the last money on?

Perhaps what you want right now. What's your worst purchase ever?

Usually the one you spend your last money on (laughs). Do you have a "happy" thing in which you always look good and which lifts your spirits?

It's not a thing - it's just my mood! What do you think every fashionista should have in their wardrobe this summer?

Brain! (laughs) Heels or ballet flats?

Hawaii flip flops.

Do you exercise in the morning?

Five exercises of Tibetan monks.

What time do you usually get up?

If I opened my eyes, then I woke up. Do you go to rallies?

No. Which of the cultural events (performances, film premieres, exhibitions) do you plan to attend in the near future and what would you recommend to our readers?

Well, here I can only talk about the past tense. Unfortunately. I was delighted with the "Night of Museums" hosted by Pavlov-Andreevich. And I'm also an absolute fan of Butusov after the play "The Seagull".

I buttoned up my soul

Oksana Fandera gained fame in the 80s, when she became the winner of the first beauty contest in the USSR "Moscow Beauty". Perhaps thanks to this, she successfully married - to Philip Yankovsky, an actor, director, son of the famous Oleg Yankovsky.

Oksana starred in her husband’s films a lot (“On the Move”, “State Councilor”, “Stone Head”), and recently Russian viewers were able to watch the film “About Love”, where Fandera's partner was Fyodor Bondarchuk.

I will not argue with my husband's mistress

- Oksana, in the new film "About Love" you played a glamorous woman who is unhappily married to a millionaire deputy. Are you tired of glamor?

I agreed to this role only because I wanted to “drag” a real love drama through a glamorous story, through the outer shell. It seems to me that there is no big difference where this drama develops - in Verona, Los Angeles or Odessa. It doesn't matter how much money you have. If you have a lot of them, you don’t love in any other way, you don’t sort things out in some more noble way ...

- Rich and poor hit each other in the same way, is that what you mean?

If you remove the external paraphernalia and leave only the content, these quarrels are no different. It doesn’t matter where you are from, where you grew up, how old you are, whether you have children or not ... If you love a person, but he does not reciprocate, fools your head, offended young ladies always and everywhere react the same way, because they are very hurt. My heroine is offended by her husband, and for her it is more important than any diamonds...

- If your husband Philip Jankowski cheated on you, as in the movie "About Love", what would you do?

There are other relationships in my family life, and of course I would have acted differently than my heroine Lada. I don't have that kind of courage, savagery. I can't break glasses and would hardly enter into a discussion with my husband's mistress. It would be easier for me - due to my gypsy origin - to turn around and leave without explaining anything at all.

- Do you agree that all men by nature are such that they are ready to cheat on their wives at the first opportunity?

How can I tell you ... Many women are faced with the fact that men are mostly polygamous. There are wise women who say: this is a personal matter for everyone. There are those who categorically do not accept treason. This happened to us, with our girlfriends, who hung on the phone and sobbed for two hours: “I can’t believe that he really slept with my girlfriend and with his secretary!” My opinion is that the purer, more spiritual a person is, the more correct his attitude towards adultery. This does not mean that a woman should forgive everything, close her eyes, pretend that she does not notice anything. But if every person, man or woman, tries to find the reason in himself, well, just at least start with this, then there is a chance to avoid hasty decisions, to save the family.

Sometimes I challenge society

- In your family you are raising two children - son Ivan, who studies at GITIS, and 15-year-old daughter Lisa ...

Yes, Vanya this year moved to the second year, studying at the directing and acting department. I saw one of his directorial theatrical works and was pleasantly surprised. He is capable, I am satisfied with him. Lisa comprehends the world. I teach her to appreciate, love and understand not only herself, but also the people around. And not only a close circle, but any person ... There was a case when Lisa could not accept one of her teachers in any way. A conflict was brewing, but we managed to remove it, because after our long conversations my daughter managed to look at the teacher from the other side, somehow justify his actions.

- You are from Odessa. In what way, in your opinion, Odessa residents are fundamentally different from Muscovites?

When I arrived in Moscow, it seemed to me that I had landed on another planet. I myself looked strange with my Odessa temperament, openness and desire to communicate. In Moscow, I had to button up my soul and tame my southern fervor. We had a free, courtyard-street Odessa childhood ... In a good sense of the word. There was a huge company, we climbed the vineyards, ran away to the sea in the early morning in secret from our parents. All are friendly and cheerful. Southern people are different from those in the capital. Maybe because they are closer to the sea, to nature. In general, I really miss the sea in Moscow. I feel very comfortable in Odessa, I try to go there every year, and the sea there seems to me the best.

- Oksana, even now you differ from many of our actresses precisely in your sincerity and openness!

Yes, probably, I sometimes throw my appearance and behavior "challenge to society." The lightness, sociability, openness characteristic of me are not always adequately assessed from the outside. Maybe that's why I was attributed to different love stories. But if a person is interesting to me, I least of all think about how to behave in public ... In general, I am a risk-taker in life, and many often turn on limiters. For example, they say: “No, I can’t do it!” And you try! And you will definitely succeed. But alas… It really torments me, because I am interested in people who are developing, and not standing still, from whom I can learn something. I'm not just friends so that I have someone to sit with, chat or be silent. Often in communication with a person there comes a moment when everything is given and everything is received. Then you can turn around and leave. But in fact, I quickly come to the rescue. And I also get pleasure from the fact that a person feels good next to me. This applies to everyone I interact with. Do you know who is the closest literary character to me in spirit? Mowgli. And I define people precisely on the basis of whether he is of my blood or not!

“Odessa is a place that binds people like me to itself. If you were born in the water, you are subconsciously drawn to the water, you just feel good there. I feel good in Odessa, - says Oksana Fandera about her "small homeland" and a new role in Alexander Gordon's film "The Lights of the Brothel".

Odessa in the minds of any Soviet person has always been a "special place", a little unrealistic and completely un-Soviet. This city, like people born here, does not accept fuss and exists according to its own laws, which can be understood only by abandoning the usual logic and surrendering to chance. “Odessa does not tolerate what you will offer her - she must give everything herself. And your will to continue - to accept or wait for the next offer, - Oksana talks about her homeland with a gleam in her eyes. “This is a cool city, it looks like a person, such a slightly angry, proud woman, who exists absolutely outside of logic.” You can't argue with that. It is all the more interesting to watch a movie about Odessa, filmed according to the scenario of Harry Gordon from Odessa by his son Alexander Gordon, with Oksana Fandera from Odessa playing the role of the hostess of a small seaside brothel. Too much Odessa? So it is, the city in this story about spiritual searches and torments is not just a background, but a full-fledged hero-accomplice, a non-fictional and at the same time fantastic world, the image of which for most of us is formed from grandmother's memories, funny anecdotes and noisy black and white Soviet films. “Sasha, when he conceived this story, when he was filming it, he talked all the time about some kind of Sovietness,” says Oksana. “Not for a second, neither in the editing, nor in the credits, did he ever go beyond the idea of ​​what Soviet cinema is.” However, the point here is not only in skillful stylization, the perception of the picture is dictated by the same Odessa texture - bright, flashy and extremely reliable. A representative of a completely different generation, Gordon managed to create an absolutely realistic world - his Odessa is not a product of a modern idea about it, it is really recreated the way people of the older generation remember it.

But with all the attention to detail, with all the striving for historical truth, in one aspect, the creators of the picture nevertheless moved away from the realities of those years. In Harry Gordon's script, the main character was a woman "in the body", which, in fact, was supposed to be an Odessa woman of her occupation and age in the 50s of the last century. The director was looking for an actress for the role of Lyuba's mother for a long time and painfully, he did not seriously consider Fandera, considering her "too glamorous", but having met her on the advice of film critic Lyubov Arkus, he made the decision almost immediately. Gordon Sr. was against it, he saw his character completely different and tried his best to dissuade his son from making a wrong decision. “I really wanted to please Harry Borisovich, who looked at me with pity, as my late grandfather looked at me when I was very thin as a child,” Oksana laughs. - I really wanted to like him somehow. Not because he wrote this story, and I don’t look the way he wants, I just wanted these two beautiful men to not have a stumbling block in my face. Oksana, trying to achieve "correspondence", harassed the costume designer, who did not understand anything, with requests to "add thickness" and "increase tuhes" (ie backside). At some point, Gordon Sr. could not stand it and burst out laughing: “I, Sasha, seem to understand why you took it.” As a result, the work grew into a great friendship. "It's always nice to say the phrase "I was loved," says Oksana. “In this case, it was an amazing act of accepting me for who I am.”

Despite the Odessa origin, the actress prepared for the external attributes of the role (in particular, the dialect), no less carefully than for its psychological aspects. I came to my homeland before the start of filming, talked to people, looked for an accent, manner of speech, emotions. I communicated mainly with older people, trying to find the intonations inherent in the time depicted in the film. She wrote interlocutors on a dictaphone, analyzed what she heard. “I demanded to introduce me to a prostitute, she read the whole script to me - from beginning to end. That's who I didn't get close to, she just speaks brilliantly. It's like a heartbeat, all words are filled with incredible meaning. I, of course, did not have the task of copying it, I just needed to feed on the time that it carries in itself. Because in 1957 she just felt very good "...

In addition to Fandera, many excellent actors are employed in the film, including representatives of the "old" school - we are talking, of course, about Ada Rogovtseva and Bogdan Stupka. “It was interesting and different to work with them, very different,” says Oksana. - From the very beginning, Ada Nikolaevna communicated with me quite strictly, and it seemed to me that this was her personal, personal attitude towards me. Then we “met” her again, when the film had already been released, and it turned out that she was an incredibly warm person who treats me with sympathy, there were several episodes when she proved her love to me. It was pleasant and unexpected, because it seemed to me that she was such a strict, dry woman, and she, apparently, thus “gave a gap” between us in order to more accurately feel her character ... “Perhaps Rogovtseva initially built relationships in this way, following her role? "Maybe. It's just that I'm an emotional person, I never mix work and life, and, of course, I immediately read it as a personal attitude towards me, as behavior that has nothing to do with work ... With Bogdan Silvestrovich, it's a completely different story. This bright, emotional, temperamental man in half an hour spoke to the entire set, flirted, courted, charmed all the women. He brought a lot to this role, did something that was not laid down in the story itself, but he did it beautifully and charmingly.«

Oksana finds the same warm words for Alexei Levinsky, a great theater actor and director, who has never acted in films before "The Lights of the Brothel". “He really made an exception for Gordon ... I thought, frankly, that this was some kind of coquetry, an exaggeration, but he really hadn’t acted in films before, never at all. He read scripts and refused, then he stopped reading scripts, immediately refused. Sasha convinced him. It was interesting. “Between the hero of Levinsky and Gordon, by the way, it is easy to notice the similarity, at least externally. Was this character an on-screen embodiment of the director's personality, how close is he to Gordon? “Just like a woman,” Oksana answers without a doubt. - I think there is a certain duality in this, this is the same person who has both such a perception and another perception. That is, it is indeed the same being. I think so, maybe Sasha would have said it completely differently.«

Surprisingly, as a result of communication with Oksana, a completely different image of Alexander Gordon is drawn, diametrically opposed to the current image of a sharp, sharp-tongued and not very friendly TV presenter. “For me, this film is all the more valuable because I fell in love with Sasha very much. For the first time, he allowed himself to unzip the “zipper” he was fastened with, which had grown directly into his skin. All the pluses, all the minuses, naivety, romanticism, sentimentality of the picture - this is all Sasha. The whole movie is him. This is not his idea of ​​beauty, this is himself. And this is surprising, because his television image does not fit in with this picture. “Oksana, as it turns out, was not familiar with Gordon before filming, but this did not stop her from” considering “the person she now speaks of with such sincerity and warmth. “I belong to a different type of people, I am unsuggestible by someone and something, the criterion for evaluating for me is only my own curiosity,” the actress recalls her acquaintance with Gordon. - Sasha from the very beginning was surprisingly gentle, he amused me, I laughed 15 minutes after the meeting. I internally told him “yes” after he asked me if I had seen his first film ... Usually directors ask, the answer is important for them. I carefully said no, I really didn’t see him ... He replied: “Here's what I advise you ... It's good to watch him in bed. Wash your face, brush your teeth, go to bed and turn on the movie. It is very good to fall asleep under it. My gratitude knew no bounds. I realized that I would work with him, absolutely, in this story, in the next, it doesn’t matter. After the film, I said that if he ever had an offer for me, I would agree without reading the script.“

At the end of the conversation, I could not resist asking about "Kinotavr" - to everyone's surprise, the Sochi jury did not award Oksana the prize for best actress, limiting herself to a diploma with the wording "For the combination of beauty and talent". To the honor of the actress, it should be noted that this “problem” touches Oksana a little. “I don’t really care about things that other people usually care about, really. I don’t know how to explain this, and I don’t understand how to argue either. This is also connected with love ... If you put me before a choice: in complete silence, with polite applause, to receive a significant cinematic prize or not to receive anything, but to feel, to see with my own eyes that you are accepted, loved - this is more important .... Although, to be honest, I don't care. I really don't care at all ... "But what" does not care ", I try to get to the bottom of the matter. “I love only those moments when I stop recognizing myself. This is confirmed by the good words of people whom I respect. It can take literally three seconds, that's enough for me. I am focused on the process, Anatoly Alexandrovich Vasiliev, an absolute master and genius, brought us up in such a way that we are not ready and do not know how to receive praise. I don't have a compartment in my head that controls this, no file that controls my own response to yours. This is the ability to give, but the inability to receive. It is more natural for me when somewhere on the sidelines they slap me on the shoulder, or hug me, or say “thank you very much” for this or that work. I don’t need to sparkle for a lot of people, I don’t know how to do it, I don’t have the opportunity to express it ... "

meeting with Oksana Fandera THR planned for a long time. But she stubbornly insisted on waiting for an important role for her. Finally, everything coincided: Oksana has two serious projects at once - a space drama Salyut-7 and crime retroseries "Elusive". Plus Anniversary! Chief Editor Maria Lemesheva met with the actress and learned not only the secrets of film sets, but also the recipe for raising children, as well as long-lasting love.

Oksana, you are one of those rare actresses who, having gained popularity, decide not to flicker everywhere, but, on the contrary, become extremely picky in choosing roles and events. But for an actress, “waiting” is a big risk ...

I agree to a project if something seems interesting to me. I have only intuition and a desire to be in a quality process. From the very beginning, my master Anatoly Alexandrovich Vasiliev sharpened us like pencils for the process, and not for the result. It should be good, difficult, interesting, that's all.

I really love your Lyuba in "The Lights of the Brothel", impressed by the small but so bright Needle in "State Counselor" - especially from the scene before the explosion, when the tough revolutionary heroine becomes a fragile, vulnerable girl who only dreamed of love. Which character do you like the most?

I love "The Lights of the Den" very much. And why ... The stars just rose that summer: I acutely began to feel the need for gratitude to my mother and the city, which for me is absolutely like a living person. Mom had been gone for several years at that time. And then Alexander Gordon appeared, who also had a need. Its. His father Garry Borisovich wrote an amazing story, based on which Alexander decided to make a film, and we agreed in our desire to thank people close to us and our native places. We didn't rehearse - we talked, we just had fun. Sasha, I remember, called me to the monitor, I went up and shuddered, because I saw my mother there ... I love Igloo. I wanted a role of resistance - something that is not at all organic for me. We did photo tests, and when they were ready, I suggested: let's just wash me, pull my hair into a ponytail, draw freckles, and there will be nothing else. And I was approved. You gave the right examples: I like these works, because they make it possible, when discussing the result, to remember the process with joy - complex, but high-quality.

And what did Salyut-7 bribe?

I wanted to plunge into something that would never be in my life. I am a complete coward when it comes to altitude: that is, everything that is a flight - from an elevator to airplanes, not to mention rockets - is for me ... mmm ... a test. But the thought that people did it, do it and even enjoy it, made me decide and treat the proposal as some kind of psychoanalysis sessions - perhaps, being inside the spacesuit and alone with my fears, I can overcome my painful phobias. All in all, I accepted the challenge. (Laughs.)

Oksana Fandera in Salyut-7

The film begins with a scene in which your character - written off in part from the hero of astronautics Svetlana Savitskaya - works in outer space. Reveal the secret: did you perform difficult tricks yourself?

I did not prepare specially, but I did everything myself. I must tell you, it is very difficult to work in a space suit: it is unbearably hot, stuffy, it hinders movement. In a huge hangar, they built special mechanisms that lowered and raised us on cables. It was necessary to imitate the state of smoothness, as in weightlessness. People in space, in airless space, are in a slightly fetal position, so, for example, they fastened me to a chair so that there was such a correct plasticity of the body.

Coming soon "The Elusive". There you have the role of a charming thief. Considering your scrupulousness in choosing roles, what made Firochka so hooked?

Firochka… Esfir Leonidovna Fatinson… French chic and Odessa manners. And boundless devotion to his lover. And a total fatal love of risk... In general, the key to my nature is the word "Odessa". As soon as the city in which I was born and raised appears in the conversation, I turn around, begin to look the person intently in the eyes and say: “Go on ...” Volodya Vinogradov began his acquaintance with me from this. The director, who, it should be noted, had never been to Odessa before this project, managed to find such the right words that I believed: he knows this city, this unique human environment, this nature of humor, he feels the same way as I do. Plus a brilliant costume shop, amazing make-up artists! This is when you realize that this is real creativity!

In the series, the aesthetics of the 50s. The image turned out to suit you very much - hats, chiffon dresses, sock stockings. What style do you prefer in life?

I don't really follow fashion. Sometimes fashion follows me, because when I am a hooligan or dress somehow completely casually, after some time my friends and acquaintances say: cool, it must be fashionable! (Laughs.) It seems to me that clothing, like speech, is a means of self-expression. And if the body is the clothes of the soul, then, probably, the clothes are clothes not so much for the body as for the soul. Therefore, when choosing an outfit, look not only in the mirror, but also deep into yourself - your feelings will not deceive you.

Oksana Fandera in "The Elusive"

Youbecame known throughout the country as a finalist of the first beauty contest in the USSR in 1988. Since then, the image of a seductive beauty has firmly entrenched in you. And just after the "State Counselor" became it is clear that you are ready to experiment with appearance. Tell me, would you have decided, for example, how Charlize Theron would gain 20 kilograms when she was preparing to work in the movie "Monster"?

Well, let's do this: I answer you everything - yes! (Laughs.) I am not afraid of anything. I don’t think that if someone once called you beautiful, this is a dogma. Someone, on the contrary, may look at me and think: “How terrible she is.” I can't answer the question of what I would like to play. I only know how to say "thank you" for what I get. I'm sure there are forces that guide us: call them what you will, God, Light. It’s just that someone says: “I myself,” and then the Light says: “OK, I’ll wait a little aside until you yourself ...” And someone says: “I completely trust what is happening to me. I know that I am just a means…” So it seems to me that if something can be said, expressed through me, then I am ready to be a guide.

And since we are talking about beauty: you are the mother of two adult children— slim, young, sexy. In addition to genetics, what else is in your arsenal?

In my DNA there is Karl Marx Street, the corner of Deribasovskaya Street, that's all. I don't play sports, I'm extremely lazy. I am that nervous type of woman who, when worried, does not eat at all, simply cannot.

Although most do the opposite.

But then the majority, when everything is fine, can control themselves, and I eat, and, Masha, you don’t need to see how much food I can eat! (Laughs.)

Your husband, Philip Yankovsky, is a talented director and actor. Do you often worktogether. Does this not lead to any disputes that are unnecessary for the family, or, on the contrary, does it bring you closer?

Philip and I have an unspoken rule: I don't read the scripts of his films unless he offers me one himself. That is, there is no such thing: I’ll read it, and then over a cup of tea I’ll say: “Maybe it’s me, dear?” I clearly understand: if the director does not offer, it means that he simply does not see me there. And, to be honest, Philip, with great reluctance, it was such a feeling, took me into his paintings. (Laughs.) It so happened that every time I rescued either him or the actress. But I must say: working with him is a separate pleasure. And as with a director, he always knows exactly what result he needs, and as with an actor, he is a wonderful artist and a subtle, very delicate partner.

A couple of years ago, you and Philip celebrated a silver wedding, which in our time among creative people is already an event. When I interviewed your husband, he spoke of you with great love and appreciation. What is the power of your love?

You know... it's like rope, clothes and clothespin - all for each other. A rope without clothes is not needed on the street. Clothes without a rope will not hang. But the clothes will not hang on the rope if there are no clothespins. And which of them is what for each other ... Our relationship is a certain form of a game, a child's game. We enjoy the way we exist side by side. We do not have an obligation, we do not have the coordinate system that is usually accepted in the family. And we continue to learn from each other some very important things for the growth of each of us.

Mother's Special Pride- children. Son Ivan has already become a star, and deservedly so. Recently, our magazine gave him an award as the "Event of the Year" in the cinema. On the approach of Lisa's work. Are you a strict mom?

Strict, perhaps even excessive. Was. Praised only on business. When they were little, I was clearly not one of those mothers who provides support to the child, no matter what and no matter how he did. I admit it with regret. Now I would behave differently, but, apparently, the fact is that my mother raised me this way, and my grandmother raised her this way. Probably, this is some kind of Jewish code when they say: “No, you see: Serezha also has a violin, but he plays better. Look what he has achieved!” And my whole childhood was like this. With my children, I went into this “pedagogical” and extremely indelicate side of education a couple of times, but then I realized that this is a colossal pressure on the child’s psyche. But I was a maximalist and a perfectionist, and I had the same high bar, of course, in relation to children. I could hardly bear the lack of movement, and the children always knew: if you stop, stop growing, developing, then this will entail a serious and not very pleasant conversation with Philip and with me. They went to a regular school - I insisted on this, and Philip supported - there were no expensive cars with drivers and other VIP attributes. This, too, helped lead to these two people getting their priorities right. They know that it is important not how, but what, not the form, but the content, not the result, but the process.

Oksana Fandera Photo: Vlad Loktev. Jewelry: KOJEWELRY

And when you learned that children still choose the acting profession, did it somehow help?

No. I said that this profession should be “married” exclusively on your own, so that later there would be no painful “divorce”. Ivan first went to one master, studied for six months at the acting department, and then independently decided to change the studio and transfer to Sergei Zhenovach for directing and acting. I really like what he does in the theater and in the cinema - he is one of those who "wants to get to the very essence of everything." He is categorically not satisfied with the proposals where you just have to be, and, yes, I have to admit, he even managed to impress me with some episodes in the movie “Queen of Spades”, when I stopped recognizing him at all ...

And then Lisa decided to go the same way ...

... And you, I think, represent our shock with Philip! After studying for two years with a very strong teacher, she decided that acting education was not enough for her, she also wanted to be involved in directing. She entered the directing and acting at GITIS and is absolutely happy. Liza is an amazing, unique in a sense combination of incongruous, external and internal. She falls outside the scope of all roles - with the appearance of an absolutely lyrical heroine, she has a completely rebellious, characteristic, so to speak, content. Thank God, now the time has come when it has become worth its weight in gold. (Laughs.) I go to her for acting exams, and how wonderful it is! This generation is completely different - they are complex, very deep, impetuous, unusual. And to watch how Lisa swims in this “river”, how she dives and emerges, grabs air with her lungs and dives again - this is a pleasure. I do not think that the main reason for this development of children is Philip and me. It's just that they probably chose us because they needed to take something from us and move on. We matched. We needed them to understand something, and they needed us.

Oksana Fandera Photo: Vlad Loktev. Jewelry: KOJEWELRY

Fans of your Instagram, and there are many of them, also know about the talent of Fandera as a photographer.Where does this passion come from?

“Instagram” was opened for me by my son, he said: “Mom, well, you are a modern person ...” I hung a single photo there (it was Odessa). And forgot about the page. And then there was a dispute with one of my friends, I successfully lost it and got the task: to post at least one photo every day for a year. Thanks to this bet, I learned how to take pictures and completely fell in love with this world through the eyes of a phone. Sometimes, when I start looking at photos that I clicked a huge amount in a couple of minutes, I am surprised to find some details that I did not see during the shooting. And it becomes such a kind of drug - to catch and see the signs that are sent to you. In general, I am such a kind of pearl diver who now knows for sure that pearls are scattered everywhere, you just need to see them, collect them and ... distribute them. Because he is for everyone.

…I have a humorous attitude towards this. Anyone who knows me very closely would tell me that I am not at all cunning when I fall into a stupor from the question about age: at that moment, comical hard work begins inside me. The fact is that I have an extremely difficult relationship with numbers and memory in this regard, and this has always been the case. This is a kind of mathematical dyslexia: every time, in order to answer how old I am, I have to subtract from the present year, which is now, the year of my birth, and thus I remember, I understand how old I am now. (Laughs.)

Yes, I did not want to ask about age! I'm just talking about the celebration - planning something big?

Oksana Fandera gained fame in the 80s, when she became the winner of the first beauty contest in the USSR "Moscow Beauty". Perhaps, thanks to this, she successfully married - to Philip Yankovsky, an actor, director, son of the famous Oleg Yankovsky. Oksana starred in her husband’s films a lot (“On the Move”, “State Councilor”, “Stone Head”), and recently Russian viewers were able to watch the film “About Love”, where Fandera's partner was Fyodor Bondarchuk.

I will not argue with my husband's mistress

- Oksana, in the new film "About Love" you played a glamorous woman who is unhappily married to a millionaire deputy. Are you tired of glamor?

- I agreed to this role only because I wanted to “drag” a real love drama through a glamorous story, through the outer shell. It seems to me that there is no big difference where this drama develops - in Verona, Los Angeles or Odessa. It doesn't matter how much money you have. If you have a lot of them, you don’t love in any other way, you don’t sort things out in some more noble way ...

“Rich and poor hit each other in the same way, is that what you mean?”

- If you remove the external paraphernalia and leave only the content, these quarrels are no different. It doesn’t matter where you are from, where you grew up, how old you are, whether you have children or not ... If you love a person, but he does not reciprocate, fools your head, offended young ladies always and everywhere react the same way, because they are very hurt. My heroine is offended by her husband, and for her it is more important than any diamonds...

- If your husband Philip Yankovsky cheated on you, as in the movie "About Love", what would you do?

- In my family life there are other relationships, and I would, of course, act differently than my heroine Lada. I don't have that kind of courage, savagery. I can't break glasses and would hardly enter into a discussion with my husband's mistress. It would be easier for me - due to my gypsy origin - to turn around and leave without explaining anything at all.

- Do you agree that all men by nature are such that they are ready to cheat on their wives at the first opportunity?

- How can I tell you ... Many women are faced with the fact that men are mostly polygamous. There are wise women who say: this is a personal matter for everyone. There are those who categorically do not accept treason. This happened to us, with our girlfriends, who hung on the phone and sobbed for two hours: “I can’t believe that he really slept with my girlfriend and with his secretary!” My opinion is that the purer, more spiritual a person is, the more correct his attitude towards adultery. This does not mean that a woman should forgive everything, close her eyes, pretend that she does not notice anything. But if every person, man or woman, tries to find the reason in himself, well, just at least start with this, then there is a chance to avoid hasty decisions, to save the family.

Sometimes I challenge society

- In your family you are raising two children - son Ivan, who studies at GITIS, and 15-year-old daughter Lisa ...

- Yes, Vanya this year moved to the second year, studying at the directing and acting department. I saw one of his directorial theatrical works and was pleasantly surprised. He is capable, I am satisfied with him. Lisa comprehends the world. I teach her to appreciate, love and understand not only herself, but also the people around. And not only a close circle, but any person ... There was a case when Lisa could not accept one of her teachers in any way. A conflict was brewing, but we managed to remove it, because after our long conversations my daughter managed to look at the teacher from the other side, somehow justify his actions.

– You are from Odessa. In what way, in your opinion, Odessa residents are fundamentally different from Muscovites?

- When I arrived in Moscow, it seemed to me that I had landed on another planet. I myself looked strange with my Odessa temperament, openness and desire to communicate. In Moscow, I had to button up my soul and tame my southern fervor. We had a free, courtyard-street Odessa childhood ... In a good sense of the word. There was a huge company, we climbed the vineyards, ran away to the sea in the early morning in secret from our parents. All are friendly and cheerful. Southern people are different from those in the capital. Maybe because they are closer to the sea, to nature. In general, I really miss the sea in Moscow. I feel very comfortable in Odessa, I try to go there every year, and the sea there seems to me the best.

Oksana, even now you differ from many of our actresses precisely in your sincerity and openness!

- Yes, probably, I sometimes throw a “challenge to society” with my appearance and behavior. The lightness, sociability, openness characteristic of me are not always adequately assessed from the outside. Maybe that's why I was attributed to different love stories. But if a person is interesting to me, I least of all think about how to behave in public ... In general, I am a risk-taker in life, and many often turn on limiters. For example, they say: “No, I can’t do it!” And you try! And you will definitely succeed. But alas… It really torments me, because I am interested in people who are developing, and not standing still, from whom I can learn something. I'm not just friends so that I have someone to sit with, chat or be silent. Often in communication with a person there comes a moment when everything is given and everything is received. Then you can turn around and leave. But in fact, I quickly come to the rescue. And I also get pleasure from the fact that a person feels good next to me. This applies to everyone I interact with. Do you know who is the closest literary character to me in spirit? Mowgli. And I define people precisely by the principle - whether he is of my blood or not!