Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk: “Any lie has one consequence – it always comes out”

Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk: “Any lie has one consequence – it always comes out”

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Marietta, what was it like growing up in a celebrity family?

I have no idea what it’s like to grow up in any other family – doctors or teachers. For me it was a natural habitat, so I can’t compare. They had their difficulties and their joys. I can only speak of my personal experience.

Tell about it.

I had a loud “Italian” family, in which everyone loved each other very much and very rapidly sorted out the relationship.

And who raised you?

Parents, grandparents. Just like others. Globally, a person is educated by everything around – the environment at school and the yard, the time in which you live. From each side, something of its own “flies”.

Which family member do you love the most?

I never knew how to answer this question. I love everyone with a different love, but equally strong. It is impossible to calculate to what extent. It’s like answering the question: “What do you like more: borscht or looking at Repin’s paintings?”.

In one of the interviews, you said that at first you did not like to read, and then turned into a “bookworm”. Who is your favorite author?

Well, it’s famously about the worm, of course. And completely untrue. I didn’t like to read because I was forced to. Therefore, in spite of myself, I read something that is not in the school curriculum. At the age of 12, for example, out of spite I read Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, although Crime and Punishment was only on the summer program for the next year. And then I came across Akunin and his Fandorin. And I read in one gulp all seven, it seems, by that time the existing books. And thus managed to get used to the letters in front of my eyes. Like a drug. I can’t say that there is a favorite book, just like a favorite writer. I am a person of mood… I love Dostoevsky very much, whom, by the way, my husband Alexander Andrievich cannot stand because of depression. I love Dovlatov, Chekhov, Zoshchenko, Kharms, early Pelevin, Daniel Keyes. Many more people. I can’t single out one.

Have you read Nadezhda Teffi?

Yes! I read her “Demonic Woman” upon admission.

Describe the reaction of your parents when you said you wanted to be an actress?

I don’t remember at all, it somehow happened gradually. As a child, I was a big girl, and when they asked me what I want to become, I answered: “Barelina”. Because she could not pronounce “ballerina”. Then I wanted to be an artist, although I did not feel any desire to do this. Later there was a desire to become an artist. Dad loves the story about my zeal for education. When I told him about my desire to become an actress at the age of 12 or 13, he told me: “So go to the library and read Stanislavsky.” I went, took three volumes of Stanislavsky and … made myself a house for dolls out of them.

Do you remember some act from childhood, for which you are still ashamed?

I have so much to be ashamed of! I am a maximalist and, unfortunately, I do not know the measures in anything. As she lied without interruption about everything, she also suddenly stopped lying, changed schools and began to tell the truth to everyone, which is also not very smart and correct. And a lie has one consequence – it always comes out.

Tell us what it’s like to enter a theater university, being the daughter of a famous actress.

This is also a question that I can answer: I don’t know how it is otherwise. She acted like everyone else, everywhere. I dreamed of getting to Zhenovach. She flew off from the very last stage, when there was one extra person left. In that first year, Borodin took me for a fee, and they took me to the stage, also at GITIS. But I was so upset that I didn’t go to Sergei Vasilyevich, that I decided not to go anywhere at all. I spent a year kolobrodil, graduated from the courses of a florist-designer, and worked with him in the then Soviet Central Department Store. She studied vocals and English. And in the spring she went to do it again. And then she no longer began to get out – where they took her, she went there. I do not regret a bit, I am very grateful to our native directing department and my teachers (course of S.A. Golomazov).

Tell me, have you had any hurtful rejections?

Failures happen all the time, it’s part of the profession.

Do you like your appearance?

No. Over time, I got used to and learned to remain silent, nod and smile at compliments, and not throw the phrase: “Stop talking nonsense.”

In this case, will you do plastic surgery?

Also no, each person must go through the path that he got at birth. I like people with a non-standard appearance, but I treat myself very strictly.

Let’s move on to the series “Ranevskaya”. Your heroine had an idol in her youth – Vasily Kachalov. And who was your idol?

I didn’t have any idols. But there are a lot of talented artists. It’s hard to name just one. If you choose from Soviet times, then this is Innokenty Smoktunovsky. He is great. The artist has two tasks: to feel his role and to be able to change masks. He combined the ability to transform into anyone without any make-up, equally honestly connecting to any role. The greatness of Ranevskaya is also in the talent of transformation, she was organic and different everywhere.

Was it scary to audition for the role of Faina Ranevskaya? Or did you dream about it?

It certainly wasn’t a dream. And it couldn’t come to mind. Neither, in principle, that such a movie is possible, nor, even more so, that they will approve me … It’s scary, of course. It’s scary to this day, but what’s done is done.

Are you satisfied with your work in the series?

Of course not. I am never satisfied with myself. Yeah, I don’t really look. Only if necessary – dubbing, repeating takes. I look at the playback only in those cases where I need to remember some nuances. With the theater in this sense it is much easier. You suffer that nothing happened every time, but at least you don’t have to look at it. And in the performances of our beloved “Daughters of Soso” (ed. note, an independent theater project), which were staged by Zhenya Berkovich and which we play at the independent theater venue “Space Inside”, I even feel happy. It sounds pompous, but today art is at least a little, but still saves. I believe it is necessary.

Source: Hellomagazine

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