Daria Moroz: “I am a calm person, but sensitive and vulnerable”

Daria, as a viewer, what do you prefer – movies or series?

Series. Simply because they come out more often than movies. And so the main criterion for me is the quality of the product.

What about genres?

Priority is given to dramatic and fantastic stories (I like that a lot!). But in general, I try to watch as much as possible all the national film production in order to be aware of what my colleagues are doing. And, of course, I have no shortage of high-level foreign projects from good directors.

Can you switch off and not perceive the image from the position of a professional?

Until the end, probably not. But I’m a grateful viewer who just wants to disconnect, be surprised, live life with the characters. The professional wins out when the project isn’t very interesting: you start to wonder why it didn’t work and what you could change.

By immersing yourself in the role, is it easy for you to get out of it?

I strictly separate acting work and life. I consider “immersion” and “exit” (or absenteeism) as very traumatic. For me, playing is a game, a mask. But life is completely different.

Yes, there are roles that require more involvement: for example, when you work for a long time on a very complex image – it doesn’t matter whether it’s in a film or a series. But still, the actors aren’t crazy: nothing will suddenly make me speak or think like my character. I think it’s wrong to take away their roles in life. And is it real? I think you can see in your hero the qualities you want to possess. But will you acquire them while playing the role? I doubt.

So you don’t turn into Lena Shirokova for years playing her in “Kept Women”?

No. But it works in the opposite direction: I endow the character with some of my own qualities that are not written in the script.

Besides, on START has just released the new season of The Kept Women. After so many years, what does this project represent for you?

I’m very proud of this work and the series as a whole. He gave me, as an artist, a new cycle of popularity. It became clear that my age and nature, the prescribed image of Lena Shirokova and the very school of Kostya Bogomolov were harmoniously combined – fire inside and ice outside. The character turned out to be alive and caught the eye of the viewer.

However, I have no desire to become an artist of a single role. I would like to be known as Dasha Moroz, not “the star of the series ‘Keeped Women'”.

And a little more about this project. Thanks to him, among others, we now look at the explicit scenes of cinema in a new way.

In every candid scene in “Kept Women,” there’s drama that exposes the characters and the development of their relationship. That’s why they make such a strong impression.

For a Russian person, the topic of a naked body is closed, and it’s great if such projects affect the audience, liberate them. Even if I don’t think cinema can change anything globally, it can give a direction, suggest that we are the body, and that we have to love it, accept it.

April 13 the START will premiere the series “Live Life” – in my opinion, very relevant in its subject, because it talks about unhealthy relationships, codependency and manipulation.

Yes, it’s one of those projects in which I not only acted, but also participated in the work on the script. There must be such projects, because our series not only describes psychological manipulations, but also shows how to recognize them, how to cure them. After all, many people go through something like this and sincerely don’t understand why they are suffering. “Live life” is a therapeutic film, and such projects are the most interesting for me. You try a lot on your own, close a few holes, start thinking about important things. It’s cool.

They talked about Daria Moroz as an actress. How are you in life?

Directors increasingly see my heroines as essential, strong-willed – and those are some of the qualities I possess. Besides, I’m almost 40, so it’s natural. In life, I am a collected, but sensitive and vulnerable person – perhaps this is where my outward severity comes from, shielding myself from some extra people and unnecessary situations. I give the impression that it is better not to approach me (laughs).