It's good in Gelendzhik, the child breathes sea air. When they started filming the second season, Masha turned ... a month old! Now it's seven. Due to the fact that the leading lady unexpectedly became pregnant and was about to give birth, it was impossible to change the work schedule. The producers of The Bloodhound, of course, discussed the possibility of postponing the start of filming, but ... According to the script - summer, which means that it is necessary to shoot in the warm season and not in a year or five, otherwise what kind of continuation of the series is it? In general, there was nowhere to retreat, with the second season we were delayed by only a couple of weeks, we started work not at the end of March, but in April. Filmed quickly, lively, easily, almost in one take. The second season ended even faster than planned. In the spring, I was going to feed Masha between scenes, agreed on this with the producers, but in our frantic mode it is impossible to drag her to the site. I worked, the nanny walked with Masha along the seashore. She fed only during lunch and at night. From eternal lack of sleep, you come to the site tired, but the command of director Dmitry Brusnikin sounds: “Motor!”, And that's it - both energy and eyes burn.

- Anya, I can’t help but ask, what is it like to become a mother again at 42?

This is a gift, a gift from God. I dreamed of a third child, but I was afraid to decide, everything happened by itself.

- Fear associated with the profession? Were you afraid to fly out of the cage, to get better? Or is it elementary not to cope with three children?

I'm not the kind of person who is afraid of extra pounds and somehow not looking like that, I don't give a damn about it. Basically scared. Sons were born one after another, with an interval of two years. I felt like I was giving birth, feeding, giving birth, feeding all the time. And although she never sat at home, but filmed, even when they were both very small, she still cooked in all this for many years.

- While you are filming in the south, in Moscow - both in the spring and now - the older children remain. How do you cope with separation from them?

You can rely on my husband, I don’t worry about this at all, the children and dad are fine. I guess that in my absence, my sons and dad will relax a lot ... (Laughs.) I feel like a dispatcher at a nuclear power plant: I need to keep my finger on the pulse of the family around the clock. I miss my sons a lot. In the summer, during the holidays, they flew to me, now it won’t work like that. The school year has begun, the boys have moved to a new school, and this is a huge stress, I don’t even know for whom it is more - for children or for parents. All new! Teachers, students, their parents, circles, sections! And I need to figure it all out.

- I feel like a dispatcher at a nuclear power plant: I need to keep my finger on the pulse of the family around the clock. With sons Mikhail and Alexander and daughter Maria. Photo: Lyuba Shemetova

- By the way, how do they like their mother's new role? Have you seen The Seeker?

Children adore this series, they fell in love with my Alexandra Kushnir. Probably because she is fair, kind of unexpected, loves to eat sweets and is generally cool. Children cannot be deceived, and adults too: everyone likes the Bloodhound, which means that we are not working in vain.

- If I ask you to continue the phrase about yourself: “Anya Banshchikova is ...”

Oops… Tough question. I can't live without a job and my mother is crazy. So anxious, restless ... If there is a break in work, I become unbearable and splash out my frantic energy on my family, I am a terrible controller, I delve into their every movement, and this, of course, is annoying. And then the sons and the husband ask in chorus: “And when, finally, mom, will you go to work?”

- And what is the role of the wife in your place?

At the very last. As a wife, I don’t do anything at all: I don’t bake pies, I don’t wash, I don’t iron shirts, I don’t feed breakfast.

In terms of comfort with me, not very. But it seems to me that men go for it consciously, because the main thing is different. My husband respects me, you will not get bored with me. It seems to me that men are more attracted to how interesting it is with a woman.

On March 30, Seva and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Time flew by so quickly ... We came to the registry office together, signed. Soon Misha was born… They celebrated modestly, had dinner with close friends. Kostya Khabensky was, we have been friends since our students, his first wife Nastya was alive ... Another friend who also celebrated with us is no more. Time flew by quickly...

- The wedding was not magnificently celebrated, because, in principle, against it?

I hate all this vulgarity: limousines, baby dolls. I don't like weddings in general. (Laughs.) My first wedding was like this - rock and roll (Anna's first husband is musician Maxim Leonidov. - Approx. "TN").

- Feelings change. Just like the people themselves. But my husband and I are now closer than ever. Photo: Lyuba Shemetova

- Did the love story with Seva come out swift or did you look at each other for a long time?

Everything developed very quickly. Alena Babenko and I went to the premiere of one film, and then to an after-party in a restaurant. There I accidentally saw Seva, he flew in for a few days from America.

I heard him speak beautifully in the language of Shakespeare. We accidentally got into a conversation, he didn’t know any of our actors, and the fact that I was an actress, too. Although it turned out later that the TV series “By the Name of the Baron” was shown in America, I was so young and pretty there. It turns out that he noticed me then. And having met, I did not recognize - time passed, apparently, she was no longer so beautiful. (Laughs.)

- And everything spun, spun, soon you began to live together. Remembering that intensity of passions, what can you say about love ten years later?

Love is such a thing ... It's like a good movie with a sequel. The second part can not be as exciting as the first. Feelings change, are reborn. So are the people themselves. At forty we are not the same as at twenty. Other interests, other priorities. But my husband and I are now closer than ever.

- Judging by the fact that your youngest child is not yet a year old, everything is in order with passion. Family psychologists advise experienced wives not to walk around the house in a shabby look, put on makeup and actively take care of themselves. I wonder if you share this point of view?

No, I don’t paint at all in my life, I don’t spend time on it. When we go to visit, my husband says: “Please put on some make-up.” - "No, I'll do it only for money." (Laughs.) And I go in jeans, a T-shirt, sneakers. I can be nominated for the title of the most anti-glamor artist. I don’t like going out on the red carpet, I don’t know how to pose at all, it seems awkward to me. St. Petersburg upbringing presses.

- How to stimulate, intrigue your husband, so that he does not turn his head around?

This is such bullshit! You can even attach a silicone breast of the fifth size even to your forehead and ... languish from loneliness. I know that he loves any of me - the most tired and tired. When I was young, I dressed up, even went to the beach in heels. How can young people express themselves?

- Did you literally go to the beach in heels?

Oh, yes! Anywhere and everywhere! So sexy! Now it’s even scary to remember: was it really me ?! (Laughs.) Everything has its time.

How do you tend to perceive failure? For example, is divorce a defeat?

Sometimes it's luck. In general, I am a positive person, I see a plus sign, not a minus one, I never take offense at anyone, I just don’t know how to do it. While I'm yelling at someone, for example, at our nanny, I already want to make peace with her. (Laughs.) She is offended, and I say: "Wait, I'm loving." It is better to speak the truth in the forehead than to hiss behind your back.

With husband. Photo: Lyuba Shemetova

My husband and I often yell at each other. (Laughs.) In general, our family is very cheerful. But I don’t take it out on the children, because they are not to blame for my fatigue, problems and other “joys” of adult life. If I am dissatisfied with something, I can say more strictly, that is enough.

- Anya, I see that you are a kind person. I heard a story about how the first person they met was given hard-earned 10 thousand dollars for an allegedly sick mother.

The man said that the situation was stalemate, there was no one to help, I decided that he needed the money more. I believe in everyone and constantly run into some strange people. Recently, I often remember the phrase of one of the greats: “The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs.”

- By the way! Did you pick up a puppy that has recently settled in your house on the street?

So what to do? The dog almost jumped under the wheels of the car. How could you not take it?

- Your sons are less than two years apart. They're alike?

Generally different. I can’t tear the bear away from the books, I say: “Relax, don’t read so much, you’ll plant your eyesight!” Doesn't listen, turns back to the book. Nobody believes me when I say this, but it's true. He is a hundred times more erudite than me, he does not crawl out of museums at all. And every weekend leads us all there. And, frankly, I'm not such a fan - after an hour I'm already blown away, Sasha and I shed, and dad walks all the way with Misha. When Manya grows up, we will go shopping with her. (Laughs.) Sasha is a different story: he will live peacefully without books and museums. Sasha likes something completely different. In the summer, he sat like glued on the set of "Snoops", even starred in an episode, received his first fee.

Children are different in other ways. If with Sanko you can always agree on everything, then Mishka is stubborn. I am not white and fluffy, it is very difficult to convince me, but I could not even imagine that a child could be more stubborn than me!

- I don’t take it out on children, because they are not to blame for my fatigue, problems and other “joys” of adult life. Photo: Lyuba Shemetova

- Anya, somehow you strayed from fashion! They named the children not flowery - Alexander, Maria, Mikhail. In the trend - the names are more complicated.

No, we are simple people. Why do we need all this?

- What family are you from?

I was raised by two Polinas - my mother, Polina Mikhailovna, and my grandmother, Polina Borisovna. My parents divorced when I was still young. My father has a different family. Nothing was forbidden to me, nothing was imposed on me, I was not scolded or punished. But I didn't really do anything like that. More precisely, she did what she wanted, but nothing dangerous. My mother loved me very much and that's it. We have always been friends with her. She was calm about my studies, she did not force me to study perfectly.
But, the truth is, she fought with me in mathematics. Mom is a design engineer by profession and thinks in mathematics. While Polina Mikhailovna tried to explain the equations to Anya, she thought about the guys. (With laughter.) When my mother realized that everything was useless, she simply solved problems for me.

- "In the artist" you went with whose filing? Or they themselves could not imagine themselves without it?

Grandma insisted. Polina Borisovna Banshchikova was a prima at the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy. And it's good that she insisted, otherwise I don't know what I would do. I was shy, reserved. And at the age of 17, when I graduated from school, I didn’t understand what I really wanted.

But did you even enjoy studying?

Of course, studying at a theater institute is more fun than at a technical university. I remember how I did it. People came to our LGITMiK from the far corners of the country, they were charged to conquer the world. Not like we, St. Petersburg. Of course, shy Leningrad girls and uninhibited girls from Khabarovsk are differently charged particles, where can we compete with them. But the master of the course, Dmitry Khananovich Astrakhan, repeated that we are the coolest, we are all different. And he said that it is impossible to teach the acting profession. You either have talent or you don't.

We got our diplomas in the mid-1990s, the times were hard, many of our boys left the profession to earn money. I traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow to shoot, returned, played in the theater. She lived in the apartments of her friends.

Alena Babenko, Regina Myannik, Dina Korzun, thank you! We had a great time. Now I’m thinking: how is it, having a family, to shelter someone in your apartment? When you were young, everything was possible. In general, it was cool, we were absolutely free. And fearless: without money, and the sea is knee-deep - it doesn't matter.

And then I left for Moscow for good, because I am an active person: I need to move somewhere all the time, I can’t if nothing happens.

- It turns out, Anya, you, like many, are familiar with lack of money?

Everyone thought I was rich, even when my mom and I were living paycheck to paycheck. And until now everyone thinks: everything is cool with her, and her husband is an oligarch! I just treat money very easily, and my Sevka is the same. We travel a lot and love to eat delicious food. And we live every day like it's our last.

Another value. Mom scolds me for what I keep, from her point of view, various rubbish. I put all sorts of different drawings, notes of children in special folders. This is not sentimentality, but the fear that time passes quickly and nothing remains. In the hustle and bustle that we live in, this is important. I have nothing left of my childhood. No toy, no drawing, no poems that I wrote.

Why do I dislike going out somewhere in the evenings, hanging out at various premieres? Because I want to be with my kids. Soon they won't need us. Why spend money on meaningless pseudo-communication?

- You have an extensive filmography, are you satisfied with how the acting fate has developed?

I was lucky with partners: I starred with Banionis, and with Mashkov, and with Mironov ... And the roles are different. From the director of a vegetable warehouse to the wife of Marshal Zhukov. But I am a dissatisfied, reflective, doubting person. Interesting work is never enough, you want more and more.

- In character roles, actresses often appear ugly on screen. Does it upset you?

God forbid! I treat myself with humor and perceive myself in any form. I'm not going to inject "youth injections". I hope no one will see Banshchikova changed beyond recognition. “Don’t touch my wrinkles, they were too hard to give!” - said the great Anna Magnani. I had a stormy youth, I didn’t miss anything in this life. And I can afford to be at 42 the way I am.

Anna Banshchikova

Education: graduated from LGITMiK

A family: husband - Vsevolod Shakhanov, lawyer; sons - Mikhail (10 years old), Alexander (8 years old); daughter - Maria (7 months)

Career: starred in more than 80 films and TV series, including: "Piranha Hunting", "Sonka - Golden Pen", "Beetles", "Thirst", "Wings", etc.

It is impossible to forget the timid and tender look of her large eyes. Whomever she plays - from the wife of Marshal Zhukov to the director of a vegetable warehouse - you can still guess the natural sophistication in her. In the fall, the series beloved by millions returns to the First "Snoop" in which the heroine Anna Banshchikova will again famously reveal one crime after another. The actress spoke about her shyness, selectivity of memory and the struggle for justice in an interview with THR.

You received the classical upbringing of a St. Petersburg girl from an intelligent family: ballet, music school ... And why did you end up becoming an actress and not a ballerina?

Well, what kind of ballerina am I, look at me? Although I would look great in a tutu!.. (Laughs.) Actually it was purely for general development. In St. Petersburg, it is believed that every girl should unlearn at least a music school. And it would be nice also in the ballet.

Your grandmother, actress Polina Banshchikova, worked at the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy. I suppose it was there, behind the scenes, that you had a desire to devote yourself to Melpomene?

Believe me, even the thought of such a thing did not arise! It just happened that way. By itself. It is now 17-year-old teenagers who are already adults, and at that age we were just children. We haven't figured out yet what we want out of life. Apparently, fate led me. (Laughs.) And it turns out, led in the right direction.

I will hardly be mistaken if I say that, despite your fame, you have not exterminated your natural shyness. Doesn't it interfere with work?

I've been shy all my life, it's true. At University (St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts (SPbGATI), workshop of Dmitry Astrakhan, — THR) guys who came from all over the country studied with me, and I, a girl from St. Petersburg, looking at them, was really scared: how to compete with their furious provincial temperament? They came to conquer the world and just tore the space apart! For me, it was constant stress. I wasn't going to fight anyone - I don't tend to do that at all. And only later, with age, I realized that acting nature is just quite shy. All my good actor friends are humble, reflective people. Our profession involves constant doubt, search. Otherwise, you don't grow.

Why, with all your busyness in film and television, do you not leave the theater?

We studied at the theater (St. Petersburg Academic Comedy Theatre, - THR), and already in my second year I participated, for example, in a benefit performance Igor Dmitriev. In my third year, I had a big episode paired with Alexander Demyanenko… It was very cool. An indescribable feeling when you stand on the stage, silence, you speak in a whisper, but they hear you. And this incredible exchange of energy is like a drug. I tried it once and you can't live without it.

On Anna: jumpsuit - Anika kerimova, earrings - Nissa Photo: Andrey Kovalev

I was always amazed how actors remember kilometers of prose text ...

You know it's amazing. I forget everything! I always can’t leave the house for an hour and a half, because I don’t remember where the keys went. Or I meet a person and in a second it flies out of my head what his name is. At the same time, I recently entered the play at Sovremennik and learned a gigantic amount of text in four days. I voiced The Bloodhound, which we filmed over a year ago, I come to the studio, they give me editing sheets, I start talking and I understand that papers are not needed. It’s as if I’m getting on some kind of rails, and some unknown part of the brain is taking me along them. As for the events of my life, I don’t remember any bad things at all. That's why it's impossible to offend me.

Shooting in serials, where there is no possibility of rehearsals and takes, is it relaxing or, conversely, stimulating?

TV shows are a hell of a job! Even the most beautiful of them is a flow, an eternal race. There, people from the group can come up to you and say: "Anh, let's finish today at seven, play faster". Or at the end of the shift, for example, three scenes are not filmed, the light goes out - what kind of creativity is there? As a result, even in the highest rated series, the most important scene that people really look forward to can be filmed in three minutes. Everything is contrary, and if you want to stay in this profession and save face, you must play with dignity. You need to be a real fighter to overcome all this. (He strikes the clock with his fingers.)

Investigator Alexandra Kushnir fell in love with the audience. Why do you think?

Firstly, crime stories are very popular now. And my heroine is a lady with character. I myself came up with this crazy woman who is obsessed with her investigations and at the same time terribly lonely. And if it were just a dry aunt - who would watch it?

Do you like detectives yourself?

I can not stand! (Laughs.)

Can you imagine yourself outside of acting as a real investigator?

I can, I'm such a fighter for justice! Only I would probably have been killed on the second day. I carry the truth everywhere and fight to the end, no matter what. I don't care, everything worries me. This is hard to live with.

Well, you are not looking for easy ways at all. They went to the shooting of the second season literally from the hospital ... Did you take your daughter with you?

But how? She ran to feed every free second ... which was not there. Mashenka is a late child, she dreamed of a girl for a very long time. It so happened that the start of filming coincided with the birth, but the contract had already been signed. I could not refuse, and in the end everything turned out well. In general, I always try not to relegate my family to the background, I am looking for opportunities to be with my children. I am glad that they are sympathetic to my crazy work. (Anna's husband is lawyer Vsevolod Shakhanov and two sons, 11-year-old Mikhail and 9-year-old Alexander, - THR).

Filming of the third season of the series "Snoop" began, and the leading lady, Anna Banshchikova, went to Gelendzhik with her seven-month-old daughter Masha. For several months, the girls will be separated from the rest of the family.

- It's good in Gelendzhik, the child breathes sea air. When they started filming the second season, Masha turned ... a month old! Now it's seven. Due to the fact that the leading lady unexpectedly became pregnant and was about to give birth, it was impossible to change the work schedule. The producers of The Bloodhound, of course, discussed the possibility of postponing the start of filming, but ... According to the script - summer, which means that it is necessary to shoot in the warm season and not in a year or five, otherwise what kind of continuation of the series is it? In general, there was nowhere to retreat, with the second season we were delayed by only a couple of weeks, we started work not at the end of March, but in April. Filmed quickly, lively, easily, almost in one take. The second season ended even faster than planned. In the spring, I was going to feed Masha between scenes, agreed on this with the producers, but in our frantic mode it is impossible to drag her to the site. I worked, the nanny walked with Masha along the seashore. She fed only during lunch and at night. From eternal lack of sleep, you come to the site tired, but the command of director Dmitry Brusnikin sounds: “Motor!”, And that's it - both energy and eyes burn.

- Anya, I can’t help but ask, what is it like to become a mother again at 42?

This is a gift, a gift from God. I dreamed of a third child, but I was afraid to decide, everything happened by itself.

Is the fear related to the profession? Were you afraid to fly out of the cage, to get better? Or is it elementary not to cope with three children?

I'm not the kind of person who is afraid of extra pounds and somehow not looking like that, I don't give a damn about it. Basically scared. Sons were born one after another, with an interval of two years. I felt like I was giving birth, feeding, giving birth, feeding all the time. And although she never sat at home, but filmed, even when they were both very small, she still cooked in all this for many years.

While you are filming in the south, older children remain in Moscow - both in the spring and now. How do you cope with separation from them?

You can rely on my husband, I don’t worry about this at all, the children and dad are fine. I guess that in my absence, my sons and dad will relax a lot ... (Laughs.) I feel like a dispatcher at a nuclear power plant: I need to keep my finger on the pulse of the family around the clock. I miss my sons a lot. In the summer, during the holidays, they flew to me, now it won’t work like that. The school year has begun, the boys have moved to a new school, and this is a huge stress, I don’t even know for whom it is more - for children or for parents. All new! Teachers, students, their parents, circles, sections! And I need to figure it all out.

- By the way, how do they like their mother's new role? Have you seen The Seeker?

Children adore this series, they fell in love with my Alexandra Kushnir. Probably because she is fair, kind of unexpected, loves to eat sweets and is generally cool. Children cannot be deceived, and adults too: everyone likes the Bloodhound, which means that we are not working in vain.

- If I ask you to continue the phrase about yourself: “Anya Banshchikova is ...”

Oops… Tough question. I can't live without a job and my mother is crazy. So anxious, restless ... If there is a break in work, I become unbearable and splash out my frantic energy on my family, I am a terrible controller, I delve into their every movement, and this, of course, is annoying. And then the sons and the husband ask in chorus: “And when, finally, mom, will you go to work?”

- And what is the role of the wife in your place?

At the very last. As a wife, I don’t do anything at all: I don’t bake pies, I don’t wash, I don’t iron shirts, I don’t feed breakfast.

In terms of comfort with me, not very. But it seems to me that men go for it consciously, because the main thing is different. My husband respects me, you will not get bored with me. It seems to me that men are more attracted to how interesting it is with a woman.

On March 30, Seva and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. Time flew by so quickly ... We came to the registry office together, signed. Soon Misha was born… They celebrated modestly, had dinner with close friends. Kostya Khabensky was, we have been friends since our students, his first wife Nastya was alive ... Another friend who also celebrated with us is no more. Time flew by quickly...

- The wedding was not magnificently celebrated, because, in principle, against it?

I hate all this vulgarity: limousines, baby dolls. I don't like weddings in general. (Laughs.) My first wedding was like this - rock and roll (Anna's first husband is musician Maxim Leonidov. - Approx. "TN").

- Did the love story with Seva come out swift or did you look at each other for a long time?

Everything developed very quickly. Alena Babenko and I went to the premiere of one film, and then to an after-party in a restaurant. There I accidentally saw Seva, he flew in for a few days from America. I heard him speak beautifully in the language of Shakespeare. We accidentally got into a conversation, he didn’t know any of our actors, and the fact that I was an actress, too. Although it turned out later that the TV series “By the Name of the Baron” was shown in America, I was so young and pretty there. It turns out that he noticed me then. And having met, I did not recognize - time passed, apparently, she was no longer so beautiful. (Laughs.)

And everything spun, spun, soon you began to live together. Remembering that intensity of passions, what can you say about love ten years later?

Love is such a thing ... It's like a good movie with a sequel. The second part can not be as exciting as the first. Feelings change, are reborn. So are the people themselves. At forty we are not the same as at twenty. Other interests, other priorities. But my husband and I are now closer than ever.

With sons Mikhail and Alexander and daughter Maria

- Judging by the fact that your youngest child is not yet a year old, everything is in order with passion. Family psychologists advise experienced wives not to walk around the house in a shabby look, put on makeup and actively take care of themselves. I wonder if you share this point of view?

No, I don’t paint at all in my life, I don’t spend time on it. When we go to visit, my husband says: “Please put on some make-up.” - "No, I'll do it only for money." (Laughs.) And I go in jeans, a T-shirt, sneakers. I can be nominated for the title of the most anti-glamor artist. I don’t like going out on the red carpet, I don’t know how to pose at all, it seems awkward to me. St. Petersburg upbringing presses.

- How to stimulate, intrigue your husband, so that he does not turn his head around?

This is such bullshit! You can even attach a silicone breast of the fifth size even to your forehead and ... languish from loneliness. I know that he loves any of me - the most tired and tired. When I was young, I dressed up, even went to the beach in heels. How can young people express themselves?

- Did you literally go to the beach in heels?

Oh, yes! Anywhere and everywhere! So sexy! Now it’s even scary to remember: was it really me ?! (Laughs.) Everything has its time.

How do you tend to perceive failure? For example, is divorce a defeat?

Sometimes it's luck. In general, I am a positive person, I see a plus sign, not a minus one, I never take offense at anyone, I just don’t know how to do it. While I'm yelling at someone, for example, at our nanny, I already want to make peace with her. (Laughs.) She is offended, and I say: "Wait, I'm loving." It is better to speak the truth in the forehead than to hiss behind your back.

My husband and I often yell at each other. (Laughs.) In general, our family is very cheerful. But I don’t take it out on the children, because they are not to blame for my fatigue, problems and other “joys” of adult life. If I am dissatisfied with something, I can say more strictly, that is enough.

Anya, I see that you are a kind person. I heard a story about how the first person they met was given hard-earned 10 thousand dollars for an allegedly sick mother.

The man said that the situation was stalemate, there was no one to help, I decided that he needed the money more. I believe in everyone and constantly run into some strange people. Recently, I often remember the phrase of one of the greats: “The more I get to know people, the more I like dogs.”

- By the way! Did you pick up a puppy that has recently settled in your house on the street?

So what to do? The dog almost jumped under the wheels of the car. How could you not take it?

- Your sons are less than two years apart. They're alike?

Generally different. I can’t tear the bear away from the books, I say: “Relax, don’t read so much, you’ll plant your eyesight!” Doesn't listen, turns back to the book. Nobody believes me when I say this, but it's true. He is a hundred times more erudite than me, he does not crawl out of museums at all. And every weekend leads us all there. And, frankly, I'm not such a fan - after an hour I'm already blown away, Sasha and I shed, and dad walks all the way with Misha. When Manya grows up, we will go shopping with her. (Laughs.) Sasha is a different story: he will live peacefully without books and museums. Sasha likes something completely different. In the summer, he sat like glued on the set of "Snoops", even starred in an episode, received his first fee.

Children are different in other ways. If with Sanko you can always agree on everything, then Mishka is stubborn. I am not white and fluffy, it is very difficult to convince me, but I could not even imagine that a child could be more stubborn than me!

Anya, somehow you have strayed from fashion! They named the children not flowery - Alexander, Maria, Mikhail. In the trend - the names are more complicated.

No, we are simple people. Why do we need all this?

- What family are you from?

I was raised by two Polinas - my mother, Polina Mikhailovna, and my grandmother, Polina Borisovna. My parents divorced when I was still young. My father has a different family. Nothing was forbidden to me, nothing was imposed on me, I was not scolded or punished. But I didn't really do anything like that. More precisely, she did what she wanted, but nothing dangerous. My mother loved me very much and that's it. We have always been friends with her. She was calm about my studies, she did not force me to study perfectly.

But, the truth is, she fought with me in mathematics. Mom is a design engineer by profession and thinks in mathematics. While Polina Mikhailovna tried to explain the equations to Anya, she thought about the guys. (With laughter.) When my mother realized that everything was useless, she simply solved problems for me.

- "In the artist" you went with whose filing? Or they themselves could not imagine themselves without it?

Grandma insisted. Polina Borisovna Banshchikova was a prima at the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy. And it's good that she insisted, otherwise I don't know what I would do. I was shy, reserved. And at the age of 17, when I graduated from school, I didn’t understand what I really wanted.

But did you even enjoy studying?

Of course, studying at a theater institute is more fun than at a technical university. I remember how I did it. People came to our LGITMiK from the far corners of the country, they were charged to conquer the world. Not like we, St. Petersburg. Of course, shy Leningrad girls and uninhibited girls from Khabarovsk are differently charged particles, where can we compete with them. But the master of the course, Dmitry Khananovich Astrakhan, repeated that we are the coolest, we are all different. And he said that it is impossible to teach the acting profession. You either have talent or you don't.

We got our diplomas in the mid-1990s, the times were hard, many of our boys left the profession to earn money. I traveled from St. Petersburg to Moscow to shoot, returned, played in the theater. She lived in the apartments of her friends.

Alena Babenko, Regina Myannik, Dina Korzun, thank you! We had a great time. Now I’m thinking: how is it, having a family, to shelter someone in your apartment? When you were young, everything was possible. In general, it was cool, we were absolutely free. And fearless: without money, and the sea is knee-deep - it doesn't matter.

And then I left for Moscow for good, because I am an active person: I need to move somewhere all the time, I can’t if nothing happens.

- It turns out, Anya, you, like many, are familiar with lack of money?

Everyone thought I was rich, even when my mom and I were living paycheck to paycheck. And until now everyone thinks: everything is cool with her, and her husband is an oligarch! I just treat money very easily, and my Sevka is the same. We travel a lot and love to eat delicious food. And we live every day like it's our last.

Another value. Mom scolds me for what I keep, from her point of view, various rubbish. I put all sorts of different drawings, notes of children in special folders. This is not sentimentality, but the fear that time passes quickly and nothing remains. In the hustle and bustle that we live in, this is important. I have nothing left of my childhood. No toy, no drawing, no poems that I wrote.

Why do I dislike going out somewhere in the evenings, hanging out at various premieres? Because I want to be with my kids. Soon they won't need us. Why spend money on meaningless pseudo-communication?

- You have an extensive filmography, are you satisfied with how the acting fate has developed?

I was lucky with partners: I starred with Banionis, and with Mashkov, and with Mironov ... And the roles are different. From the director of a vegetable warehouse to the wife of Marshal Zhukov. But I am a dissatisfied, reflective, doubting person. Interesting work is never enough, you want more and more.

- In character roles, actresses often appear ugly on screen. Does it upset you?

God forbid! I treat myself with humor and perceive myself in any form. I'm not going to inject "youth injections". I hope no one will see Banshchikova changed beyond recognition. “Don’t touch my wrinkles, they were too hard to give!” - said the great Anna Magnani. I had a stormy youth, I didn’t miss anything in this life. And I can afford to be at 42 the way I am.

ANNA BANSHCHIKOVA

Education: graduated from LGITMiK

A family: husband - Vsevolod Shakhanov, lawyer; sons - Mikhail (10 years old), Alexander (8 years old); daughter - Maria (7 months)

Career: starred in more than 80 films and TV series, including: "Piranha Hunting", "Sonka - Golden Pen", "Beetles", "Thirst", "Wings", etc.

Alla ZANIMONETS, TV WEEK

Photo by Luba Shemetova

Photo from personal archive

Anna Banshchikova is a sought-after actress and mother of three children. Moreover, the youngest, Masha, is only six months old. Anna frankly told HP about the best diets and a healthy attitude to life about how to do everything, and being tired, not to show this to loved ones.

Anya, last year the TV series "Snoop" (Russian adaptation of the American series The Closer), in which you played the main role, became one of the favorites of the TV season. And almost immediately began filming the sequel. Did you doubt your abilities? After all, I had to go to the site when Masha was only a month old.

Doubt - do not doubt, but there is no turning back, since you have already got involved (laughs). We started filming in the spring, almost immediately after Masha was born. It was impossible to delay the filming - the audience is waiting for the continuation of the Bloodhound now, and not someday later. It wasn't easy, to be honest. Three of us flew to Gelendzhik: a nanny, a daughter and me. After all, Masha is breastfeeding. At first there were agreements that I would feed the child right on the set, but this idea had to be abandoned. Because my heroine - Sasha Kushnir - in every frame. And we shot in a hard mode: without delay and very quickly. I returned home almost at night, pumped milk into bottles so that Masha would have enough the next day, and only then did I go to bed - for five hours, no more. It was an experiment on myself, on life (laughs). Our director - Dmitry Vladimirovich Brusnikin - did not give concessions and indulgence. And rightly so: if the actor went to the site, he must work at full strength.

Where did they get the energy from? How did Anna Banshchikova, who constantly did not get enough sleep, manage to “deceive” the viewer so that he would not understand that there was a nursing mother in the frame?

There is only one secret - you need to “get infected” with the process. Our make-up artist, she is my friend, asked with surprise: “Anna, how is it? You arrive at the site in the morning tired, broken. I think to myself - how will she play in such a state? And after an hour, having heard the command: “Motor!”, You are changing before your eyes! Energy beats, eyes burn. Probably because the material was interesting.

But you had to learn a lot of text! Tell me how to memorize a large amount of information in a short time?

Memory, like muscles, needs to be constantly trained. It was difficult in the first week of filming the first season. And then the brain entered the operating mode, when it is worth reading ten pages of text, they are instantly imprinted in the memory. I remember how at school I memorized a paragraph on chemistry word for word, like poetry, although I didn’t understand a word. The teacher never thought about it. But at the household level, I don’t boast of a good memory. I am absent-minded, I don’t remember where I put the phone, the bag, what I was going to do. I'm bad at remembering people's names. But the roles, even those that I played a hundred years ago, I remember. Show me the mise-en-scène, I'll go out and play the whole show.

You once admitted that in the previous two pregnancies, you gained a lot of weight. What happened the third time?

In my first pregnancy, I gained 6.5 kg and was very beautiful - one big breast! With Sanka, I got better, my stomach stood out strongly, but after giving birth, no diets were required, I quickly returned to my usual 60 kg (Anna's height is 170 cm). I heard that breastfeeding protects a woman from being overweight, that if you breastfeed your baby for a long time, the metabolism is activated and the woman becomes slimmer. Convinced of this on my own experience. My advice to new mothers is to breastfeed your babies for as long as possible. My record is 15 months - both with the first child and with the second. Although I was active.

This time again, she did not gain much weight, only 7 kg. But the screen enlarges the actor, adding visually another 7 kg. In addition, like any young mother, she got big breasts (laughs). But I didn’t have to lose weight, slim down my figure and go for other tricks. It all turned out by the way, I was filmed as I am, but I will not reveal the secrets of the picture. In general, I quickly got into shape, because throughout the pregnancy and after I was in perpetual motion, there was no opportunity to lie down, spend time as I dreamed. When I found out that I was in a position, I thought: “Now, as an experienced mom, I will spend 9 months in a calm mode. Sleep, walk in the park, relax. But again it didn't work. I didn’t have time ... There was a lot of work, and the children demanded my constant attention.

By the way, about work. And why does the decree not sit quietly?

I'm not comfortable being a housewife. She constantly dragged older children with her both to the theater and to film sets. The same, as you can see, is happening with Masha.

Anya Banshchikova knows how to lose weight correctly?

Of course not. I only know how to lose weight wrong. Shut up your mouth and just forget about food. But it's not helpful. An effective diet is protein, with a complete rejection of carbohydrates, including fruits. You will never get better if you eat fish, meat (except pork) and green vegetables. At the same time, you can drink only half an hour before the meal, and not during - a glass of water with lemon.

I have never been on a diet, I have never eaten any special food. I also don’t change my diet when I’m pregnant, I don’t graze in water meadows in ecologically clean areas (laughs). And I don't eat everything that is healthy. If a nursing mother ignores carbohydrates in the morning and does not eat a bowl of porridge, there will be no strength left until the evening. In general, I know how to act, but ... I live by my own rules!

If for the sake of an interesting role you need to throw off a few kilograms, what diet will you use?

I will completely give up carbohydrates: any rolls, yeast bread and, of course, alcohol. If you need to quickly get yourself in good shape, drink plenty of clean water. And most importantly, do not eat after 18 hours. If the feeling of hunger in the evenings can still be experienced, then it is more difficult to refuse a cheesecake or a croissant for breakfast. I love baking with a cup of coffee. Although I do not like sweets, unlike my heroine in The Bloodhound, who adored sweets and ate handfuls of them.

And how did you absorb chocolate in the frame if you don't like them?

After the command "Cut" they had to be spit out immediately (laughs).

And you don't like sports?

I love yoga and skiing, but I can't say that I'm an advanced user. The best vacation in the mountains for me is this: climb to the top, sit in a chair in the sun, order a cup of coffee or hot mulled wine and read a book.

Anya, how did the new school year start for you?

Since the change of school ... (with a sigh). My sons moved to another, Misha went to the 4th grade, Sasha - to the 2nd, and this transition became stressful, first of all, for me. Again, re-establish the routine - circles, sections, lessons, communication with teachers. Everything is fine, but the need to actively participate in the parent chat is killing me. Are you aware that such communication by telephone has been very developed lately? There is a constant correspondence of mothers, I quickly lose the thread of the conversation, I don’t understand why all of a sudden instead of one topic for a long time another ... I absolutely don’t have time to read all this, but I have to, because you can miss important information.

A new child in the family is often the cause of jealousy of older children. Have you and your husband already had to take preventive measures? Sons do not fight among themselves and with Masha for parental attention and love?

No, this topic is not about us and our family is not familiar at all. Masha - she is so gentle ... Although Sasha and Misha are not bandits either (laughs). She is now six months old, but it is already clear that this is a girl, even if you dress her in boyish things. Sasha and Misha are a little afraid, they do not grab their sister in their arms, fearing to harm them. But they are happy to run to her to play.

The boys are 7 and 9 years old. How do you manage to deal with them? At this age, children need constant contact with their parents.

Now, when the sons have grown up a little, it has become easier. But all the same, they are boys - restless mobile and really require constant attention.

“Mom, look what I came up with! Look what you drew! ”, - and they pull me in different directions. “Sasha, wait a second!” I answer, thinking about which one to start with (laughs). It is required to turn on instantly, to give everyone maximum attention. It doesn’t happen that mom came, lay down on the sofa - is resting. Sasha, still small, with a soft, accommodating character and patience. You can go on exploration with him. Everyone will understand and support. Say, for example, “Sanya, I can’t play with you now, I don’t have the strength ....” - “OK, mommy” and go do something himself. Senior, Misha, another. Demanding, stubborn, there was no such thing that he did not insist on his own. A good trait for a man, but it's harder for me with him.

I never scold children, I never even raise my voice. I only change my tone - if I'm dissatisfied, I say stricter, that's enough. But you can’t call me calm, I’m still far from Buddhists, there is still work to be done (laughs). What I like about the relationship of sons is that they are for each other by the mountain. Especially the younger - for the older.

Books on child psychology have time to study?

No. And it's not even a lack of time. I just feel a lot intuitively, I rely on the Lord God and my heart. In addition, the husband helps, both in word and deed. His support is very important to me.

Anya, I understand that you have a lot of worries, and yet, how do you take care of yourself, what cosmetic procedures do you like? How often do you go to beauty salons?

In this sense, I am a complete gouging! I will buy cosmetic sheet masks, I think: I will take it with me on trips, it is useful to moisturize the skin of the face. So what? I'll put it on some shelf and forget! A year later, I remember: there seemed to be masks, but where ?! They are usually found after the expiration date. I know that it is useful to take thermal water on the plane and moisturize the skin during the flight, but I don’t take it either - I forget! I also know that for the prevention of vein disease it would be good to wear compression stockings and ... Same story! Knowledge remains knowledge, I do nothing useful for myself.

When I get very tired, I call Olya, my beautician, and ask her to drop everything and come to me. When the magical hand passes over my face, I instantly fall asleep. I never sleep as soundly and sweetly as on a massage table. I have never done injections, I hold on so far. What are beauty injections, I know only theoretically, because I am afraid of any aggressive intervention. I remember how many years ago Alena Babenko and I flew to Madagascar to shoot. We were told that we needed to be vaccinated against a fever, we went and got vaccinated. Now I would never repeat this feat, because I am afraid of injections and any interference with the immune system. Who knows how vaccination will affect my health?

It's autumn outside. Reveal the secret: how do you treat colds? After all, you, as an actress employed in the theater, have no time to lie at home and calmly be treated.

Right. And in general, I don't care about myself. When I take my mother to the doctors for examinations, I remember myself and ask the doctor: look at me at the same time. And in order to specifically think about health ... I can’t do it. But the stage heals the actors. It often happened to play with a high temperature, when you come to the theater all disassembled, and after a couple of minutes where does everything go? The energy of the hall works wonders. But on the set of such miracles do not happen. Therefore, I keep on hand the drug for inhalation. I will breathe over the steam - and the throat is normal, and the voice is restored.

Anya, has the state of zen been reached? After all, you are both a successful actress and a beautiful woman. You have a wonderful family - and a caring husband and good children. Is there complete harmony in your soul?

It's strange: I understand that everything is fine, but it's far from zen. The outside world makes adjustments, in the form of anxieties, experiences, tension. Ask me how I would like to live and in what century? And I will answer that my time is in the past! When time passed slowly and life was ordered. I would take care of my profession and family, read books in the shady garden of my own house and not twitch over trifles, as I do now.

Are you easy with yourself?

Not! Very difficult, I would like to be less restless. It's time to think about the eternal, but I still can't cope with myself (with laughter)

- Since we met literally an hour and a half before your performance at the Sovremennik Theater, tell us at what point did you manage to control the excitement before going on stage, which was probably present at the very beginning of your career?

“At some point, you have to start fighting it. It is impossible to go on stage with excitement - you need to do this in complete peace. Only then will something human happen. And I apparently struggled for a while. But still, I'm probably still worried - though much less.

And this excitement then turns into pleasure? Maybe after it there is euphoria?

— I didn't think about it. But every time the excitement is like an exam. You still have to turn yourself on somehow. And it happens differently for everyone - there are no secrets.

It happens that you get ready and think: “Here, today there will be a cool performance. I'm so upbeat!" But something is not happening. It happens that you, in some absolutely terrible state, tired after the night shift, think: “My God, how will I work as an artist today ?!” And you go out - it turns out the opposite. Unpredictable, in fact, a thing.

- Now in Moscow, the shooting of the series "Desperados" is underway, in which you take part. Tell us about your heroine.

— I play a tough woman. Her name is Rita. She is very positive, does not lose heart under any circumstances, loves life very much. And, probably, this is mutual - despite some of its complex ups and downs.

This is the story of two polar opposite women who, due to circumstances, find themselves together. These women are always on the move, they run away from certain circumstances, they are saved. Such a move.

• Shot from the series "Snoop"

What do you learn from your characters? By creating them and endowing them with some qualities, in the end, maybe you are adopting something from them?

- It happens that at a certain moment you begin to communicate a little, like them. For example, this Rita talks all the time with some kind of interjection. Well, that's how she is - certain words slip through her. And then sometimes you come home and notice that you also start to slip more than usual.

- Actors who had to play representatives of the criminal world said that then tinted jeeps stopped near them and the people in them expressed their respect, so to speak. Have you received similar feedback?

- Oh sure. Here I had such a good series "Zhukov". I played Zhukov's wife there. They say the cops love it!

After this role, someone tried to stop me, but another policeman said: “Don’t even touch it, you have to salute it - this is Zhukov’s wife on her way.”

Therefore, sometimes it can be broken. I'm joking, but... Maybe not to violate, but sometimes to get some kind of indulgence at least.

Now I’m generally like a lieutenant colonel (Banshchikova refers to her role in the TV series “Snoop.” — RT). I remember how in Gelendzhik I lost my passport and came to make myself a new one. I go to the police station, which appears in the series. After all, Lieutenant Colonel Kushnir serves in the Gelendzhik police. I come, and they immediately start calling someone: “Our boss Kushnir came to us.” Everyone lined up...

Did you do it quickly?

- Generally instantly. And it was funny that they took everything as if their boss really came.

• Frame from the series "Snoop 2"

Your Instagram is absolutely amazing. He is very light...

— Yes, you know. They say that not everyone is like that! But what I read ... they write such beautiful things to me! Some amenities. There are no negative reviews.

- What was the most memorable comment for you?

— That I charge people from a distance. That people look at me from a distance and rejoice.

Some incredible videos are edited for me and sent every day, they make me happy. Some find photographs, invent something, endlessly surprise.

I read and answer. I am in active communication with them. People are involved in my work life and I am very supportive of that. It's very, very important, really.

- Again, on your Instagram, you recently posted a video from the filming of a new series. There you are standing by the car, there is an explosion, and you fall to the ground. How hard is it to shoot those scenes?

- In this film, we often enough fall, and crawl, and climb through the forests, overcome various obstacles all the time, kill people ... And there are some wild scenes with truckers.

Well, difficult or not difficult - I do not know. If you are interested, nothing is difficult. It is difficult when it is not interesting and when you do not want to do it. And when it is interesting, you are involved in it, everything becomes a joy, everything turns out.

• Shot from the film "Hunting for Piranha"

— And how do you feel about uncomfortable locations? Here we are on the set of your new series in a place where the word "comfort" does not apply ...

- How comfortable can it be when there are night shifts, when it's terribly cold, and we're filming?

We are now in early autumn. Therefore, we are practically undressed, with bare legs and in some summer things we walk around. And it’s very cold outside – “behind the scenes” it can already snow. It's all uncomfortable, but no one said it would be comfortable!

It doesn't scare me. This is part of the horrors of the profession, as they say. We are used to it. During the filming, I ran barefoot in the snow, and drowned in icy water, and jumped from a helicopter ... And now in the forests, in the rain, cold and hail.

- Aren't stuntmen jumping from a helicopter?

- In "Piranha Hunt" we ourselves jumped from a helicopter, from five meters. Well, sometimes you have to overcome some things in yourself in order for something to work out.

What would you never do for a role? Maybe they wouldn't shave their eyebrows or cut their hair bald?

- If there was a cool script, a good director and an interesting idea, I would do everything. I don't hold onto my eyebrows or my hair. On the contrary, I advocate such experiments with changes. I don't like to play any of the same people.

“Like,” probably. Foolish word.

- Your first role in kindergarten or in a school production?

- I do not know. I remember I was a snowflake. For some time, two years, I studied ballet at the Palace of Pioneers. How they took me is not clear. Hell, probably. I had a pack, I was a snowflake. I danced right in some kind of children's ballet ...

• Frame from the series "Secrets of the investigation-6", 2006

- What will cause you more discomfort - unwashed hair or cracked manicure?

- Unwashed hair. A manicure is now fashionable to wear cracked. By the way, I am now playing this Rita, and she is in motion the whole film - they started to run away. So I also go with the peeled off manicure now. But everyone says: "Now it's so fashionable."

- From whom is your last message on WhatsApp or another messenger?

From my director.

— Do your children often write to you?

No, they don't have phones. They, thank God, they are not yet asked. I somehow delay this moment ... Therefore, they do not write to me. I call my grandmother or dad, through them I can talk to the children.

Do you have any childhood fear?

- A lot of some fears, probably. Loneliness - that everyone will leave you, abandon you. Disappear and you'll be alone.

I remember that I was always afraid - like all children, probably - that my mother would die. I had some of those things.

- And now, if this rolls over, what do you do? Are you going to hug the kids?

“Now this is probably not the case. Now, sometimes, I wake up in the morning from the fact that I'm scared that I didn't have time, didn't do something. I don’t know if it’s a child’s fear or an adult’s — I don’t have time to do something.

Do you have any ritual before filming starts?

“There is no such ritual. When you sit in makeup, you somehow just turn on, turn into an artist.