The actor became a hostage of one image.
Yevgeny Leonov was one of those stars of Soviet cinema who were assigned a certain type. It seemed that over the years, the artist beloved by many did not change at all.
The audience remembered him in the image of a kind of peasant from the people who never aimed at heartthrobs, and even more so – sex symbols. And Leonov has always been like this, even at the dawn of his successful career.
In his youth, the actor had the same facial features as when he was already a mature person. This can be seen when watching the tape “Happy Flight” by Vladimir Nemolyaev, which premiered in 1949.
This is one of the first works in the filmography of a celebrity. Then Leonov was entrusted with such an insignificant role that his name was not even mentioned in the credits. And during the filming of the picture, the actor was already a charming chubby good-natured man with a wide smile, which the whole country later fell in love with him.
