Pavel Derevyanko on going to a psychologist, NFTs and growing up of his daughters

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In the new season of the STS hit “Dyldy”, your coach of the women’s volleyball team recovered and fell into depression. What trials await him?

He has to overcome himself, overcome – I wanted to say “routine”. But this is no longer a routine, but some kind of abyss, where my hero plunged himself headlong. (smiling) It was actually fun: fun to dress up, fun to feel fat. You find few positives in this. There was a lot in two seasons, we have already tried so many things. What else my Kovalev was not, it was a fat man who had sunk to the bottom. This is how they made it.

Thanks to a special suit, you “recovered” almost thirty kilograms. Have you ever had situations in your life when you gained too much?

It’s hard for me to put on at least one kilo. I can “hunt” for one kilogram for a week. (smiling) I have a lightning-fast metabolism. More often than not, my appetite depends on my mood, which is subject to fluctuations, so sometimes it’s hard for me to gain even a pound in a week. And about the fact that I had some problems with being overweight … I wanted to say that one can only dream of this. But I won’t say, because I’m fine as it is. (smiling)

All women are now terribly jealous of you.

Yes, I’ve been told this all my life. (smiling)

In one of your interviews, you said that you visited a psychologist. And now you continue to communicate with a specialist?

The first time I turned to a psychologist about ten years ago. I used to have strange states when it was hard for me to keep up a conversation, to formulate thoughts. We worked out three or four times, but then I forgot about it. And last year I really had a severe depression, I don’t remember this before. The formal reason was our parting with Dasha. But very quickly I realized that this was not the case. Something inside broke. I went to the village of Kyn, which is two hundred and fifty kilometers from Perm, where we filmed the film “Accomplices”.

A film that continues to bring you awards, including at Kinotavr.

Yes, and for me this is now the most difficult of the roles performed, I have not done anything like this before. I played absolute evil, a terrible killer. At the same time, in St. Petersburg, I was filming in the TV series “Darknet”, where I had the role of the owner of a brothel, a hero with yellow hair, in chains, with painted nails and eyes. And so I traveled between Perm and St. Petersburg. Then he returned to Moscow and realized that the depression had gone somewhere without the help of specialists. It just evaporated! It was very bad, but it became very good. (Smiling.)

You recently released NFT. Tell us, do you follow modern digital art?

I am just entering the NFT topic, I still know little. Therefore, to be honest, together with everyone I will try to understand it. In this sense, I am an opaque person, if we talk about trends and technologies. I live here and now. Seeing, feeling, touching, enjoying, experiencing – that’s what you want to do.

Last year you said goodbye to The Magnificent Cuckold. But not with the theater of the Moscow City Council. What performances with your participation remained in the repertoire? Maybe something new is planned?

Remained “Uncle Vanya” and “Three Sisters” – performances by Andrei Sergeevich Konchalovsky. So far, nothing new is planned there, perhaps a little later something will happen with my participation. But now, with Alex Dubas and Tema Tkachenko, we are preparing the play “Three Captains”, which Zhenya Grishkovets is directing. This is a collection of sea stories about life, duty, honor and loneliness. At the same time, there is a lot of humor, songs and dances.

And just recently there was a premiere at the Central House of Writers, where we with Borey Adrianov, our illustrious cellist, held a literary and musical evening “The Ideal Pair”. It was something completely new for me. I liked it, so I will develop in this and further. I want to read more and talk from the stage. This is what I want now.

You are raising two daughters. Do you see more of yourself in Vara or Sasha?

Varya and Sasha are completely different girls. There is a lot of me in Varvara: hooliganism, kindness, wisdom. At such a young age, she is already remarkably conscious. I want to believe that she got it from me. (Laughs) Sanka is different, a little bit in herself. But in the classroom, as her class teacher recently said, she was the ringleader. (smiling)