How the famous surname interfered with Konstantin Raikin and who she is - the actor's only love
'12.07.2020'
Source: Teleprogramma.pro
For Soviet people, his father Arkady Isaakovich entered the pantheon of the demigods. And the children of such people rarely managed to get rid of their condescending attitude, they say, did not reach their ancestor. Konstantin Arkadevich easily broke stereotypes, writes Teleprogramma.pro.
Konstantin Raikin was born July 8, 1950 in the family of actors Arkady Raikin and Ruffy Ioffe, so that to a certain extent he was sentenced to work on stage.
He was going to enter the biology faculty of Leningrad State University, but suddenly he jerked into Pike - on the course of Yuri Katin-Yartsev (Giuseppe Sizy Nos from Pinocchio), and remained there.
The surname only interfered: caused an inappropriate reaction. Konstantin had to fight with her, rather than be proud. He assures that he made the choice of profession himself, but not without the participation of an invisible hand and the desires of an infinitely loving father.
“My parents brought me overgrown clothes from abroad,” Raikin recalls. - How ashamed I was! We all were equally badly dressed. Clothing color poop. It was normal, Soviet tones. We differed from each other internally, but not by clothes. And then parents give me some kind of coat with bone buttons, pants about forty centimeters longer than my unfortunate legs. Trousers in folds lay on my feet. My parents dreamed that I would grow up a giant. Poor fellows, they didn’t wait. ”
For more than 30 years of film career, he played only two dozen roles, although he could easily reach hundreds. Firstly, it did not spill. Secondly, he devoted himself to the theater. After working for 10 years at Sovremennik, he went to the Satyricon, which he has been managing since 1988.
During this time, as an actor and artistic director received a bunch of awards and awards, playing Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Richard III, Cyrano and other heroes defining theatrical space.
He also expelled and fired many artists for his frivolous attitude and interest in serial hack work, among them - Kristina Asmus (Interns), Pavel Priluchny (Major) and Maxim Averin (Capercaillie).
The role of Tatar Kayum in the western of Nikita Mikhalkov, “One among strangers, a stranger among friends” (1974) became one of the actor’s calling cards. Toothless, loud, twitchy, explosive, gullible and slightly primitive Kayum more than clearly showed the contrast of the root, chthonic, eastern way of life and philosophy in relation to urban and conquistador civilization.
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The theme of class inequality was not without: “Kayum wanted to get married! There was no money - to pay! Old mine folder. Mom is old. The yurt became very thin ... rain dripping past the roof. I didn’t have a bathrobe, I didn’t have a bathrobe, honestly, I didn’t have a bathrobe ... every jackal wears a bathrobe. I went without a bathrobe for a whole year! ”
To his wife, Konstantin Arkadievich is faithfully faithful as well as to the theater. They have not parted with actress Elena Butenko since 1985 - almost like with Satyricon! The girl came to the theater, where Raikin already worked, and struggled for about a year from the courtship of her colleague, but then gave up.
In 1988, Elena gave birth to her husband's daughter Polina, in the same year Raikin became the artistic director of the Satyricon, in which his daughter is also playing.
Dad immediately gave the hyperactive son to the gymnastics section - and Konstantin made sports experience one of the professional trump cards. Anyone can appreciate the incredible plasticity of the actor Raikin: grimaces, jumps and acrobatic sketches against the background of incredible energy - his corporate identity.
The sparkling main role of the arrogant and charming crook in the musical Truffaldino from Bergamo (1976) was the tenth for Raikin and became a brilliant performance. The 26-year-old actor on trials moved Oleg Dal himself and it was no accident - in tandem with classmate Natalya Gundareva, he sang, danced, jumped and created one of the most striking characters in Italian comedy del arte in the USSR.
70-year-old Raikin does not recognize jubilees. He believes that age is a special, higher mathematics, and not the numbers in the passport. He does not like to look into the future. Prefers to live on earth.
“I am not a dreamer, but a doer,” Konstantin Arkadyevich emphasizes. “And if I want and love something, I do it.” One must want to do something real. Lucky one who deserves it. God notices one who jumps toward him. We must rock the boat, dig the ground. The biggest fear of my life is to be unnecessary. ”
