Valentin Smirnitskiy - Porthos forever!

Valentin Smirnitskiy - Porthos forever!
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Valentin Smirnitskiy If we consider the "Three Musketeers" as a commercial, then we can talk about a few actors, for which he really became one. Mikhail Boyarsky immediately cross out - Successfully "clip" than "Dog in the Manger" to come up with is impossible. Aramis, that is Igor Starygin also failed to eclipse himself in "live to see Monday". But cute, eccentric, absurd, imposing, friendly simpleton Porthos still reigns in the imagination of the viewer over all the roles played by Valentin Smirnitskiy before and after the Musketeers era.

When the Musketeers were thin ...

Truly do not know where you find - where you lose. Did the actor, going to the sample in the glorious city of Odessa - with a broken leg in a cast! - That it was the finest hour that "perezvezdit" all the others "?

Everything happened as Winnie-the-Pooh: not that is not got ... He had planned something else. Firstly, the recovery of Smirnitskiy going to go to the shooting in Germany to become one of the heroes of detective. Secondly, he saw himself as D'Artagnan, or at least, Athos, Porthos but not - at least, because they were in different weight categories.

I did not expect - because usually responsible actor. When asked about the role of Porthos. - When my phone rang from Odessa and offered to come to try, I even did not specifically told to someone ...

No one could have predicted that this film will become a legend, twice removed will require continued and the rest of life will transform it into "the very Porthos," as, for example, Alexander Demyanenko - in "the very Shurik." Valentin Smirnitskiy refers to this fact philosophically:

It's not just my kind of destiny, and many very good actors, who were under pressure in popularity as one. Excellent, brilliant actor Boris Babochkin whole life passed like Chapaev! A serious artist, a great teacher ...

Fate obviously favored young talent, a student of the Moscow Theater School. B. Shchukin, when, without pause, the door opened in front of him in the world of cinema. His first role in the film "Two" immediately propelled the young, beautiful, charming actor and his partner on the film - Victor Fedorov - the starry heights. The film was treated kindly by critics, it is framed awards festivals - a dream and not start!

Exploit the outstanding external data actor, film suddenly flashed his talent in a different way, at all times tsenivshuyusya its weight in gold. Valentino Smirnitskiy believes that this "feature" made the director "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers" opt for "his" Porthos.

"I know that Porthos will play Smirnitskiy. However, he was lean and tall, - wrote the director Jungvald-Khil'kevich in his memoirs.

He said he chose me for comic gift - says the actor - say, the important thing is to get him the desired character, and appearance we, "supplement", finalized. And I did all sorts of covers ... Actually, it was difficult. I for the first time in the movie had to play a characteristic role - that in the theater are often drawn by makeup. But in the movie it's always very dangerous. A more realistic screen "selling" make-up pad. If you do not play convincingly, you can immediately expose themselves.

Over the years, it turned out that spectator love "Musketeers" is not dying, but only gets stronger. With each new generation delivers the ranks of fans of the series is now more and more admirers. A Valentine Smirnitsky, voicing Porthos, Gerard Depardieu in "Iron Mask", think about how it could be a hero today.

I played it in a completely different, younger years - says the actor (he was 35 years old when Porthos came into his life). - Now I have a different way to interpret something. By the way, Depardieu is what is trying to do, there are some amusing discoveries.

It all started with the inspector

Voice Valentine Smirnitskiy say, without knowing it, many famous actors in the world. He has been successfully working on dubbing and Animated Film, and can not even choose a favorite from the characters they voiced.

It is difficult to choose a favorite actor among those whom I duplicated - so many of them I've had! - Says the actor. - Including those who are much older than my age. But the most difficult was probably to Depardieu, his voice not at all like mine, are much lower.

After the "musketeers" he was often invited to play something portosovskom style, but he did not agree. I did not want to repeat. But while he enjoyed watching scary facial expressions of other directors.

When they saw me personally, greatly disappointed. I picture them deceived ...

Someone tried to count how many films starred Valentine Smirnitsky, he reached fifty and tossed.

I think more than fifty, - says the actor. - Thirty-six ... no, seven. For thirty-seven years of work in film roles typed ... And if you add the TV series and dubbing - how much will all?

Family Valentin Smirnitskiy was not acting, as he says "normal Soviet family" where much blood has been mixed, including Polish, German and Jewish. On the one side shines aristocratic origins. His father, however, had a direct relationship to the world in which his son will take a leading position. The chief editor of the Moscow Central Documentary Film Studio did not suspect that will result in the school hobby son.

The drama club, I made a successful debut in the role of the inspector general. And then came to me this idea: if I did not become an artist? - So Smirnitskiy took his first steps on the path to glory. - I worked in the studio with polusamodeyatelnoy Sergei Shakurov and Vasya Botchkarev then easily entered the pike, where at that time the competition was huge, almost a thousand people in the place.

Tall skinny guy in front of the selection committee read "A Cloud in Trousers" Mayakovsky, amused and assured itself of the place where it exploded thousands of competitors. On the same course with him I learned Andrei Mironov, resemblance to notice that often then viewers.

After graduating from college before Smirnitskiy was a choice: he was invited to the Moscow theater and three to Igor Vladimirov in "Leningrad Soviet." He chose Efros and Lenk, where he first came on the scene in the role of Trepleva.

That "Seagull" - it was sensational, scandalous statement, - says the actor - and my excitement when entering the scene, joining with fear (at any point in the play could forbid), has created a special state, a special mood.

Smirnitskiy played Prozorova in "Three Sisters" (that's the play, in the end, and banned - "for the distortion of Russian classics"), Moliere's Don Juan, Cassio in "Othello," Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet", Kochkareva in "Marriage "In many plays Arbuzov ...

What list? - Asks the actor when he is asked to talk about the work in the theater. - Many roles were. Theatrical biography I have enough rich.