Ukrainian theater and film actress Solomiya Kirilova for filming in the film " The star such a transformation was hard.

According to Kirilova, initially they were going to take her not for the main role, but offered to play the mistress of his brother Pamphir.

" It was just quarantine. At first they sent me a request for self -testing for the role of Angelina, the mistress of his brother Pamfira. Again, this is to template visions. In such a familiar role, the casting director saw me, and I thought that in principle I could play, ”the actress said. -But I did not feel any call for myself. When Dmitry watched my samples, he offered me the role of Elena. I am very grateful to him that I saw the main character in me. Of course, I felt how the amount of work is waiting ahead and how much it would be necessary to transform to me, first of all. It was so unusual! But it was in this that I felt both growth and challenge "

Kirilova admitted that a set of excess weight for the role was very hard for her. The actress had to completely change her diet.

" This was very difficult for me, but the contract was clearly spelled out-the weight should be more than 5-10 kg. They say that it is easy to dial. Perhaps when you sit on the couch, you do nothing, it is, and when you work a lot in the mountains, in extreme conditions, moreover, stress. Every morning I got on the scales with the hope of gaining at least one kilogram, but it didn’t work out, ”she admitted. - Therefore, I just went " Then it was very hard for me. Still, the pancreas or the liver felt this violence "

According to the actress, there are people whom the camera is " And Kirilova belongs to the first category, since she has enough bony body structure.

" Dmitry explained that I am one of those actresses whom the camera is slimming, and that is why he wanted me to gain weight so that it would not look too blown, ”she explained. - In my first scene, where the meeting of Elena with Pamfir, in which I shoot naked, I had a fairly flat stomach. And the director wanted it to be folds, so that it was a woman who did not have time to engage in beauty processors, so that she looks more natural "

This was far from the only difficulty during the filming. To get used to the role of Elena, the actress had to work in a plywood factory in Krasnoilsk Chernivtsi region.

" Every morning I went to work, where people who do not understand the Ukrainian language mainly work, because this is already a border with Romania, ”she added. - One woman spoke in a very broken Russian, he was the only person with whom I had communication "

Moreover, while working on the dialect, she stopped calling up with her relatives so as not to switch to the usual language. According to Kirilova, this experience helped her a lot to better understand the character of the main character.