In the picture Opposition, which will show the channel Ukraine on Saturday, April 22, Ilya Alekseev will play an investigator named Arseny. Absolutely positive hero, who first helps to hide the main character behind bars, and after a while - with all her might trying to help her find the real culprit. In an exclusive TV interview. UA actor told about his hero, impressions of filming in the colony and much more.

Ilya tell us about your hero. Who is Arseny? And how can he remain positive by doing such contradictory actions?.

Arseniy is an investigator. Young and "green", but correct. A man of honor, you can say. He always thinks about work and devotes her almost all of his time. Because of this, he, of course, does not get along on the personal front - the wife leaves, and he remains alone with his work. At that moment, the main heroine's case is being thrown at him. Being a pedant, a young and yet not very experienced investigator, he, trusting only facts, "plants" Irina. And three years later, when she had already served the sentence and went to freedom, Arseniy, thanks to certain events, suddenly realizes that he made a mistake and tries to fix it.

He did not violate his principles either in the first or in the second case. Just growing up and overestimating some things, from a pedant's footstep turned into a thinking, analyzing and more "flexible" person.

You once said that you are already pretty tired of playing Dobrians. Why did they agree to this role?.

Yes, I want to try myself in a new role. And I, when there is an opportunity, I try to seize the role with negative charm, but ... Unfortunately, and maybe fortunately, while I do not succeed.

There are actors who are convinced that good-natured play is easy. And there are those who claim the opposite. Like, playing bad man, as a rule, there is something to lean on, and you try as interesting to play a positive hero.

But you know, I would love to try myself in a comedy. I already had the experience of a comedic character, but it's a little bit wrong. I want a real comedy and a role that will show all my acting skills.

Why did he agree to play Arseny? Because I'm still so great an actor to throw away roles. If an interesting script and a well-written role, I take up work. And in this project everything is exactly like this.

Despite the fact that "Confrontation" is a melodrama, it contains elements of the action. Tell me, what exactly will this be?.

Pogony, fights, some kind of blows, falls ... But I do not have many such scenes. Most of all got, in this respect, Fatima Gorbenko, who plays the main character of the series - Irina. It is then pushed into the car, then it strikes someone on the head with a bottle, then the chairs beat. I only have one such scene with a fight. Shot in the woods. Everything was rough, tough, but according to plan.

Were they themselves fighting or using the services of professionals?.

Himself. The scuffle was not so difficult to call for the help of stuntmen.

And what was remembered from the filming?.

There was a very funny moment with the car. When the scene was shot, where I was driving, I had to travel a hundred meters ahead, play a role, and after the command of the director "Stop" get out of the car so that the film company driver drove her back to the "start".

And so a few takes in a row. With the fact that I'm driving well. And we were in a field where, apart from our film crew, there was not a soul. I tried to explain that I know how to take back and drive not the first day, but they said to go only forward. You can not go back!.

As it turned out, in one of the Star Media projects one of the actors thus managed to get into an accident, after which this unusual rule appeared.

I know that before you devoted your life to the stage, you studied at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports. Now do you exercise?.

Sport in my life has always been. You can say from childhood. Somehow another small dad dragged me to volleyball. Later he began to study karate. Then boxing. And as a result of this - the sports department in the university. But I did not graduate from it. I quit and left for the actors.

Because of injuries, unfortunately, I can not do sports professionally. I have problems with back and shoulder. If suddenly the shoulder "flies", I drop out for 2-3 months from the usual life, and I can not afford it. Therefore I forgot about martial arts, but I support the figure in the gym.

Are shooting skills often useful?.

Yes. I constantly have some fights and scuffles on the set. All the action scenes I try to do myself. And runs, and falls from a height, and a bonfire, and stabbing ... As a rule, all get by with most sods. But somehow there was a case when the shift ended with a serious fracture of the shoulder.

Failed to fall during shooting. At first I did not even understand what happened. I thought that my bruise. Dosnyalsya, despite the pain, and only then realized that the cracked bone and tore off a bunch. Adrenaline at such times goes off and dulls the pain. What for so risk? After all, such moments can win back professionals.

I really appreciate and respect the work of stuntmen. But, firstly, I am a person involved in sports and adrenaline-loving. And secondly, in life there are so many things that you want to try, but they do not have enough time. And when acting in films, this opportunity sometimes falls out, and it would be foolish not to use it. I so, by the way, on a quad bike at last has driven (it is dared).

In the film there will be scenes that were filmed in a real colony ... Yes! For me it was a real shock. But I like it when people with a criminal past take the role of criminals. Actor, depicting a bandy, with a real villain is very difficult to mix up. He will only ask with his bass: "What are you doing here? "And all the right attitude is provided (laughs).

See the premiere of the 4-episode film Confrontation on Saturday, April 22, at 17:20 on the Ukraine channel.