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Energetic, fit, laughing, she instantly energizes and optimizes those around her. He jokes with the waiters, gracefully accepts compliments from visitors to the cafe where we met for an interview. Her day is scheduled by the minute, but she is one of those people who know how to fully live here and now: Ingeborga listens attentively to the interlocutor and is completely sincerely happy to communicate. At the same time, in a conversation with her, the feeling that she is about to flutter up and fly away does not leave: she feels some kind of internal spring, a perpetual motion machine that does not allow her to stop. She is extremely in demand in theater and cinema all over the world, she is filmed in Hollywood, England, Russia, her native Lithuania. Among her films in recent years - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in "Gregory R", Mrs. Hudson in the TV series Sherlock Holmes, the keeper of dreams in the mini-series "Heavenly Judgment". In the theater, she played with John Malkovich in the opera-drama Giacomo Variations, appeared on the stages of London and Manchester in the cult performance about female sexuality Vagina Monologues, in which at various times, among others, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Jane participated Fonda, Susan Sarandon, worked with Kevin Spacey on The Cloaca at London's Old Vic. Now on the stage of the Moscow Theater of Nations is the play "Jeanne" with her participation, and in December the premiere of "The Idiot" based on the novel by Dostoevsky will take place there. And this is not an exhaustive list of her merits, about which Ingeborga Dapkunaite speaks casually, by the way.

There is a kind of casual elegance in her appearance and manners - it is no coincidence that the cosmetics brand L'Oréal Paris chose her as their ambassador of beauty. Ingeborga Dapkunaite diligently protects her life and the life of her family from prying eyes, invariably avoiding answering personal questions with a radiant smile. She was married to the Lithuanian actor Arunas Sakalauskas, then to the British theater director Simon Stokes, her current husband is a restaurateur and lawyer Dmitry Yampolsky. That's all the general public knows. And everyone who is not included in the circle of her relatives and friends does not need to know more.

MC: You just finished filming in Alexei Uchitel's Matilda, where you play Maria Feodorovna. How do you like being the Empress Dowager?

Ingeborga Dapkunaite: Wonderful. This is not the first queen in my filmography. And queens are always great to play. I have a small role in "Matidda", but the picture itself is large-scale, and this is a whole year of life. It rarely happens that a movie takes so long to shoot if it's not a series. The teacher is a perfectionist, he put together an absolutely perfect cast, we starred incredible actors: Lars Eidinger, Zhenya Mironov, Galina Tyunina, Grigory Dobrygin, Danila Kozlovsky, and many others.

MC: How, in your opinion, is a Western woman different from a Russian one?

ID: Well, this is a difficult question, then you need to talk about how countries differ.

MC: But still. Moreover, you live both in the West and in Russia, and you probably feel such nuances.

ID: I think now the speed of information and the ability to read and see what is happening everywhere neutralizes the difference. If we talk about emancipation and other serious issues, in cities there is no longer that rigid division that existed several decades ago: a woman is at home with children, and a man earns money. Nowadays, many men are also involved in the home, children and kitchen. Although at the same time in all countries they say that women in leadership positions are still much less and they earn less. But this too must change.

MC: Which way?

ID: In the women's, of course.

MC: Do you manage to devote time to home with your schedule? Cooking, for example?

ID: Well, I somehow live ... I don't always eat in a cafe. And I don't always live in hotels. Home is home.

MC: How is your time distributed between the cities in which you live?

ID: Each time it depends on the work I do, where I do it.

MC: In the last year, for example?

ID: Oh, to remember where I was thrown. There were many in St. Petersburg, where the shooting of "Matilda" took place; in Moscow - starred in the American TV series Insomnia; in London starred in a small project. To be honest, everywhere.

MC: Do you have a role model - in life, in your profession? The person you admire.

ID: I admire many. I like a lot of people. In some people I like what unites me with them, in others, on the contrary, the opposite and unusual qualities for me. It's the same with movies - I watch almost everything except horror films. I am a good spectator.

MC: Grateful?

ID: Yes. I just understand that any film or performance, even if there are roughnesses, was created with difficulty, that people made efforts. Although there are, of course, absolutely mediocre things, but fortunately I rarely come across such things.

MC: Do you manage to turn off the professional perception and be exclusively a spectator?

Ingeborga Dapkunaite: When everything is fine, I forget everything and become just a spectator. And when something is not entirely good, then I begin to notice: there is not enough, there is too much, and this needs to be done differently.

MC: Is there something about the acting profession that you don't already know?

ID: I don’t know much. There is always what is called the mystery of talent. When I watch actors like Zhenya Mironov, it's a talent, and you can't get away from it. Talent can be wrong, but this is the essence of the artist - to seek, try, make mistakes.

MC: But what do you teach your students at the Moscow Film School? What is the most important thing in the acting profession they need to know?

ID: We can give them some skills, but they must learn themselves. Nobody will teach a person to be an actor. This is impossible. No one will hammer knowledge into your head with a hammer.

ID: I don't have time for this. Maybe it is necessary, who knows, but I just didn't get my hands on it. Now I cannot answer all the business and friendly SMS and messages that I receive: cinema, theater, Moscow Film School, where I am the curator of the acting department ... And all this is not one message a day, as you know. And also the Vera Foundation and the play with the deaf-blind, which I co-produced. Where is there instagram or facebook.

MC: What is this performance?

ID: The play "The Touched", which was made by the Foundation for the Support of the Deaf-Blind "Union" and the Theater of Nations. This is the first production in Russia in which both deaf-blind and sighted actors are involved at the same time. And this is important: we practically live in different worlds and do not intersect. At first we played for an audience of friends, because we did not know what would come of it, but it turned out that it was interesting for the theatrical audience as well.

MC: What do you do at the Vera Foundation?

Ingeborga Dapkunaite: I have been on the board of trustees of the foundation for nine years. I need to tell you what a hospice is - we recently conducted a research, and it turned out that people do not quite understand what it is, they think that this is some kind of dark, scary place. But in fact, the opposite is true - this is a place that does not look like a hospital, where a person who cannot be cured spends his last days. When a child is in intensive care, the main problem is that relatives cannot get to him - you can imagine what happens to the child and the parents. And in the hospice, relatives can stay 24 hours a day without any restrictions. In addition, we have a large field service. The Vera Foundation is doing a lot of educational work: we organize seminars, train specialists - the country still has a modest experience in palliative medicine, that is, medicine that works with people who cannot be cured. We are also building the first children's charity hospice in Moscow.

MC: How does it feel to communicate with a person, especially a child, realizing that he will soon die? Probably difficult?

ID: No. We all die. I believe that any period of our life is all life. And why should the last two months be worse than the rest? And why does knowing that I will die in two months make my life worse? We don't want to think about it, but there is one unshakable, unconditional fact: we are all going to die.

MC: What does a job at the Vera Foundation give you?

ID: All, probably ... This should be done. If I don't, then who.

MC: You are the beauty ambassador of L'Oréal Paris, you advertise the Age Expert line and the Excellence hair color. So what is female beauty? How is it expressed and how does it change with age?

ID: I am deeply convinced that beauty is always from within. No wonder they say that we are getting old the way we lived. Everything starts to reflect on the face. If you were evil, you have evil wrinkles. And look at funny people - they have funny wrinkles. And it's great that there are L "Oréal Paris products that help a woman look good regardless of age. We still live in the 21st century, we won't chop wood with an ax, although sometimes it's nice.

MC: You give the impression of an open person. Where is the border of personal space for you? Where do you keep strangers out?

ID: Home. As you probably understood, I am reluctant to tell where and how I live. I'm not alone. The reason for our conversation with you is my profession. And this does not mean that relatives and friends who live with me also want to be public people. I see no reason to talk about my relationship with my mother, because it's only mine.