November 4, 2022 8:45 pm
The famous movie could have a completely different look.
Valery Nosik became known as the brightest actor of secondary roles. Over the years of his career, he many times he could become the lead actor in the movies and even claim the role of Shurik in Operation Y, but his fate did not favor him.
Thus, during the trials with Leonid Gaidai, he managed to circumvent dozens of first-rate candidates. Spout even surpassed Andrei Mironov and Alexander Zbruev and was already preparing to memorize the script. However, unexpectedly, the director attracted the attention of Alexander Demyanenko’s photographic tests, which he even repainted specifically for the film. And in the end, Gaidai gave him the role.
Spout, in the famous comedy, has a minor character. It was he who played the gambling student and received praise from the public.
Such failures haunted the artist throughout his career, he never managed to play a major role. Over time he resigned himself to his creative destiny and made his cameo appearances unforgettable. However, all his life he remembered how he could not enter “Operation” Y “”.
