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GooD nEWS for thE GourmEtS! in march your faVoritE chain of ukrainian rEStaurantS korchma ‘taraS BulBa’ cElEBratES itS 15th anniVErSary. on our BirthDay WE not juSt SErhiy Prytula: rEcEiVE But alSo GiVE out PrESEntS. our motto: 15 yEarS – 25th of march – you’re going to laugh, but i am not a big fan of salo 15% off to Each GuESt. Exotic collEction: indian conch Shell, Wooden Drymba and corn Violin… taraS ShEVchEnko: the 200th anniversary of the birth of the genius’ DELIVERY OF HOMEMADE UKRAINIAN FOOD AND HOTLINE 6+ www.tarasbulba.us (212) 510-75-10 2 | guest guest | 3 ImpressIve settIngs, uneclIpsed actors’ performances, and box offIce records – thIs Is what accompanIed the trIumph of the hIghly – What will be your next project after antIcIpated new versIon of the fIlm vIy. that the fIlm was hIghly successful Is proved by the fact that In russIa oleg stepchenko’s pIcture Viy? Or will you take a break from filming? became the fIrst multI-mIllIon fIlm In 2014 and left the new leodardo dI caprIo fIlm the wolf of wall street far behInd. as an offIcIal medIa – No, no, I never take a break from filming. partner of the fIlm, bulbanews have already wrItten about varIous curIous facts and anecdotes from the set. now we offer you an I have two twin sons, they are 2.5 years old, so exclusIve IntervIew wIth a vIewers’ favorIte: world renowned actor Jason flemyng who played the part of cartographer green. I continue to work. I just finished filming in a French movie, where I spoke French. So there was Russian, now French… It was a film about Coco Chanel nominated for Oscar. Then I performed in the film Elisa Graves. We are Jason Flemyng: also making a new show for BBC in Brussels. – Which world famous directors would maybe I was RussIan you like to work with? – I would love to play for David Sant, he is my favorite director in the whole world… I am inspired by Martin Scorcese. But if the script In my FoRmeR lIFe … is good I will work with any director. – Jason, how did your work with the producers – You are still very young, you whole of Viy start? It is the first Russian film you agreed career is before you! to play in. Quoting Don Corleone, the producers must have made you an offer you couldn’t refuse? – I just love you for such words! – They must have. It was the time when I – Can we go back to Russia? What in finished filming Benjamin Button. I was probably particular did you like best from its local life an actor, and an Englishman to that, at the peak of and culture? his fame. That’s how we started filming Viy. Then money trouble happened, and so the producer, whom – I am not exactly a spring chicken, and I personally adore and admire, decided to re-film my views on culture and life are old, the the thing in 3D with a completely new approach. Russian culture entered my life when I was 10 That’s when I became really involved in the filming or 11. I first read Staniskavsky’s Work on the process. Earlier, we had already filmed a small part, Self, it affected me so much for the rest of my but then we remade everything with the producer’s life. The place where I grew up was saturated new vision. They just wanted to make the best film with love to the former Soviet Union. That’s possible. We filmed for over seven years, dropped why on my first visit to Moscow I went to it, and came back to it, made pauses and resumed see the Revolution Square, visited Lenin’s filming again… Fortunately, I didn’t stop, they didn’t monument… It was all very important to me stop, and now we have a film we can be proud about. even though I understand how old-fashioned it must sound. Russian culture always – How did they find you in the first place? influenced my life, I always felt emotionally close to Russians. Now more than ever. – As did everyone else, through my agent. Frankly, I think of myself as a lucky person. I played – Maybe you were Russian in a former life? in 94 films, so for me to get really interested in the part, I need to hear something absolutely new and – Yes, quite possible! And if not, I will be different from what I’ve already done. When they Russian in my next life! told me they wanted me, and English speaker, to – Have no doubt about it! No other country was playing in the film where adventure, mysticism, and play in a Russian picture to be filmed in Russia and as welcoming as Russia and I am very grateful for it. love are interwoven? – Have you tried the legendary moonshine? in Europe, I immediately agreed: “It sounds damn We are now talking about making Viy-2 and there is tempting!” nothing else I would rather do than this. – I have played in many films in my 25-year – What? Vodka? career. Just look at my filmography on imbd. THE BEST UKRAINIAN CUISINE OF KIEV – There used to be rumors that the film would – You must have made friends with other actors com and you will see that I performed in different – Yes. be promoted abroad by Brad Pitt… Is this true? on the set? genres. This wasn’t anything new for me. What was Welcome to Korchma in Kiev! new for me was working with Russian actors and – O, I drink it every day! Every day! (he – Jason Statham is already very much into this – But of course… With Chadov, with Agnia!!! Russian directors. It disappointed me not a bit, I laughs) We drank it every day for seven years! film, he posted his comments on the Internet about To be fair – with everyone on the set… It was an was enjoying my every moment on the set. how much he liked it. I haven’t yet given a copy to unforgettable experience. You need to understand – You must have consumed a lot of it in Brad, but he’s a good friend of mine and I know he that when you make a film for seven years, you – It’s nice to hear that. Russia? would support anything I do. spend a whole lot of time together. I never spent A free tour of Kiev such a long period of time with the same actors, and – But this is true. First, they pay better, second, – Not really, we were busy most of the after lunch in – Let’s talk about something else. You were it was very memorable. it’s so much fun to be around them. time. But there were times when we had a Korchma! impressed, as many other Europeans, by the breadth drink, that’s right. One night, Chadov and I of the Russian soul. You said that the time you spent – Was it difficult for you to speak Russian to – Have you read anything else by Gogol who got very drunk… And that’s all you’re gonna with the Russians was unforgettable. Is it really so? people? You said nobody was speaking English. wrote Viy? get from me (he laughs). – I visited Russia when I was a student at the – Yeah, my Russian is very poor. But I tried. If – Yes, I did and I liked it very much. – To finish it up, what would you wish our Moscow Theater of Culture, in the late 80s and you watch the film you will see I managed it quite readers? early 90s. So my coming to Moscow was a return. well. The film earned 14 million dollars at box – Do you like any other Russian classics? I brought my mother with me, she always dreamed offices, which means my Russian is not so bad and – What kind of magazine is it? of going to the Bolshoi Theater. All we got from people could understand me. – When I was young, the first Russian the Russians was love and warm feelings, and now book I read was One day in the life of Ivan – It’s the newspaper of the Ukrainian I’m watching the Olympics and I don’t know who – Can you understand Russian or nothing at all? Denisovich. Solzhenitsyn initiated me into restaurant chain Korchma Taras Bulba. I should support: the English team or the Russian? Russian literature. Later I studies Chekhov Yes, that’s right, just as we are speaking with you I – Yes, I can understand a little. I can say (speaks when I played in MHAT. Plays by Gogol. I also – Come see me in theaters, have a nice am watching the England-Russia curling game and with a funny accent): “Excuse me, can you give me read Crime and Punishment. Like any other meal and a drink. And remember that life is I’m not completely sure who I want to win! a light?” young punk I thought “Wow! This is fantastic! Kiev, Pushkinskaya Street 2-4/7 too short to drink bad vodka! I want to read all the other Russian books!” But Phone: +38 (044) 270-7248, +38 (093) 342-3868 – That’s so great! Does it mean that Russia made – Was it difficult for the actor from Lock, Stock it stopped there, reading all the other Russian Text: Aleksandra GULOVA a big impression on you? and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch to adapt to books turned out too difficult.