This year, the actress, playwright and director Elena Skorokhodova celebrated a round date. From an early age, she was engaged in figure skating and, under the guidance of the famous coach Elena Tchaikovskaya, became the master of sports of the USSR. And in 1975, she made her first film appearance. Even for small roles in the films “Lonely people are provided with a hostel”, “Happy, Zhenya!”, “Where is the nofelet?”, “Womanizer” the audience recognized and loved her. Skorokhodova has two marriages behind her, including with actor Andrei Tashkov, to whom she gave birth to the only son for both.
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– Elena, how did you celebrate your anniversary?
– Let’s not hide my age. I turned 60 this year. The number is impressive, the sensations are monstrous. But many of my peers did not even reach him. So thank you for being alive! I’m trying to treat old age philosophically. Not everything hurts. Although there are health problems, and conversations are now mainly about this. But there are other topics as well.
– Speaking of peers who “did not make it”, do you mean your friend Alena Bondarchuk?
– Let’s not talk about Alena. I love her very much, but … Somehow in one interview she remembered her with a kind word and then received a lot of negativity for this. I was clearly and distinctly given to understand that I was not worthy to talk about Alena. There are also simpler girls of my age who have passed away. For example, my classmate Natasha Olenina. She was a beautiful, kind girl, a good actress.
– Do you still have such a classmate – Alexandra Zakharova.
– Sasha, thank God, is in good health. It also celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. We weren’t close friends when we were in school. But our common Shchukin past brings us closer. I feel Sasha like family. I am very worried about everything that is happening to her now. Hardworking, decent, modest, intelligent. May God help her get through this difficult time.
– Tell us how you celebrated your anniversary.
– She spoke. The concert was at the Actor’s House with the name “6:0”. This is the highest mark in figure skating of the past judging system. And I’m a master of sports of the USSR and at one time dreamed of getting such an assessment. Now got it. By the way, anniversary concerts will continue. November 12 will be a holiday on this topic at the Cinema House.
– Does your ex-husband Andrey Tashkov participate there?
– Not. Although I invited him, of course. I wanted to play a scene from our play with him. It’s also his birthday this year. The “teenager” turned 65 years old in the summer. I love him in this role! In general, he has a lot of excellent roles in the movie. But he refused to come. Said he couldn’t. He had some kind of leg injury. But even without injury, he always refuses. The phrase allegedly said by me is walking on the Internet, that I feel like his wife before God. This is some nonsense. I’m not crazy.
“I don’t agree to live in a harem”
Why didn’t you get married again?
– Did not work out. There were some suitors, but the family would not have turned out with anyone. And I don’t agree to live in a harem even as the main wife. Only the only one.
– A harem in a movie party is normal.
– They are trying to accustom us to the normality of the abnormal. A family is impossible without mutual fidelity.
– You are an idealist. What can you say about Ivan Pyryev? He turned 120 last year. I heard that you were very worried that no one remembered this date.
– Pyryev is a colossal figure for the national cinema. But they made a symbol of evil out of him, as if he was only engaged in spoiling the lives of actresses. You type in the search engine the name of the director, and a series of female names immediately appears.
– And among them Ekaterina Savinova, Andrei Tashkov’s mother and the grandmother of your son with him.
– I have big doubts that it was Pyryev who spoiled the creative fate of Ekaterina Fedorovna. Because there are facts that are inexplicable in such a connection. For example, for the role of Frosya Burlakova, Ekaterina Savinova in 1964 received the prize of the festival established by Pyryev. Why would?
Pyryev was a passionate, enthusiastic person, but he was not a preoccupied brute. Everyone knows the story of how he met Lyudmila Gurchenko in the Mosfilm corridor, stopped her, took a closer look and took her to Ryazanov to audition for Carnival Night. He did not drag her to bed, although he was attracted to her. But it’s like with us: one threw a stone at a person, and everyone began to throw at him. And already forgot about his merits.
Dirty tech
– Have you summed up the results of your merits?
– Not particularly. But I did something in my life. 15 plays, eight scenarios. Not everything, however, is staged and filmed, it is easier to write than to attach. Eight books have been published. But much has not been completed: the plays have not been completed, the film has not been edited. And I also spend my energy on social work. She fought against the juvenile law on the prevention of domestic violence, which was promoted by Pushkin and her ilk, who drove Russia into the European Union. And now, thank God, we will live without the EU, and there is a holiday in our hearts. The noise screen near the Church of the Sign is also my work. Plus, I organized ground crossings along 2nd Krestovsky Lane … I also hung a memorial plaque for my dad. Dmitry Vsevolodovich Skorokhodov was the chief cryptographer of the identification system of the USSR Ministry of Defense “Friend or foe”.
– I heard that in connection with your social activity, this year you ran as a candidate for municipal deputies in the Moscow region where you live.
– Yes, and, apparently, she had a chance to pass, because she learned firsthand what dirty technologies are. In the last week before the elections, leaflets appeared in my district, where it was written about me that I was allegedly a pornographic actress who was striving for power. The flyer featured footage from the film Killing the Dutchman. I was in this movie. This is not pornography at all, but there are erotic scenes there.
In general, elections are a terrible thing. I was only six votes short of a mandate. And our entire district, of course, is sure that the results are falsified. Filed a lawsuit now. But one lawyer told me so: “I don’t sue the authorities.” So I think it’s useless. Although I am not an oppositionist and I support the authorities on all general issues.
By the way
- Citizens of the USSR got acquainted with aerobics in 1984, when the Rhythmic Gymnastics program appeared on the air of Central TV. And along with her, pretty young ladies in tight tights stepped onto the screens. One of them is the aspiring actress Skorokhodova. Then she was married for the first time – to actor Vladimir Vinogradov. She spoke about their short marriage like this: “I saw that we did not fit each other even outwardly. I’m 5 centimeters taller and 2 years older, but he fell in love, and then I was tragically lonely.”
Photo source: Legion-Media, Personal archive, EG Archive, Still from the film, Igor Utkin/TASS