Elena Valyushkina: “All my men were worthy, there were no fools among them”

Elena Valyushkina was married twice. Moreover, they say that Alexander Domogarov and Oleg Menshikov took care of her.

Elena Valyushkina gave herself a present for her anniversary (December 8, she will be 60 years old) – she played Harita Ignatievna in the premiere of the Mossovet Theater “Dowry”. Critics, especially Natalya Rtishcheva, wrote after the performance: “The best role of Elena Valyushkina.” The image of the mother of a daughter to be married is close to the actress. After all, she also has a daughter, Maria. However, Elena herself is a bride. After her divorce from the father of her children, actor Alexander Yatsko, Elena regularly talks about a new man, preparations for the wedding …

In an interview with EG, Elena Valyushkina admitted for the first time that, despite two marriages and courtship of the most beautiful and talented men of the countries, including Alexander Domogarov and Oleg Menshikov, she never knew the happiness of being a real bride, a true goddess in a white dress, with a veil.

– Elena, the years do not spoil you in any way. You are getting better and better. As if you were using “the elixir of youth”.

– They often say: “Valyushkina, you look too beautiful to play heroines of your age.” Well, what am I to do now? I’ve always looked good. True, in my youth I did not make any efforts for this, but now I visit a beautician, a hairdresser, do massages, wellness procedures. I am on a diet.

– Behind your fragile shoulders is a rich life experience, including the search for a “second half”. Were you able to find out what the “formula of happiness” is?

– My experience is rich and true. But there is no formula for happiness. Not in the heart, not in the mind, not in abundance. The formula for happiness is something like a hospice, which I don’t believe in.

– What do you believe?

I believe in work, I believe in money. Love passes sooner or later, but money, with a person’s industriousness and mind, remains. My life experience, which is not given just like that, taught me to appreciate material values.

– Mark Zakharov said in an interview that he “believes in magic, in a miracle.” During the filming of the film “Formula of Love”, with a strong mystical plot, amazing things happened to you?

– Yes, Mark Anatolyevich was a magician, and therefore his films are magical. But nothing mystical happened to me in the Formula of Love. Only once, while I was riding, a mosquito bit my eye. And it was necessary to shoot close-ups of the face. Mark Zakharov was a magician, but shooting the film “Formula of Love” for me is full prose. It was a hot summer, we lived in a hostel, without hot water, mosquitoes were rampant and the sizes were nightmarish. Luckily, apart from a mosquito bite and the difficulties of daily life, nothing bad happened to me.

– Please tell us how, in Soviet times, Mark Zakharov persuaded you, a student of the theater school, to play a candid scene?

– It was not Mark Anatolyevich who persuaded, but Alexander Gavrilovich Abdulov. He said, “You’ll be the only one here and you’ll be an instant star.” Because Koreneva, who previously starred in Konchalovsky’s “Romance of Lovers” naked, left for America, and they preferred not to remember her. So she convinced me. She could get anyone you want-and anything.

– Alexander Gavrilovich did not take care of you?

– No, I didn’t care. But at that moment other handsome and talented men looked after me, especially my classmates Alexander Domogarov and Oleg Menshikov. After the role of Maria in the movie “Formula of Love”, all the men in the country dreamed of me.

– Did you name your daughter Maria in honor of your heroine?

– God forbid, no. They named her in honor of grandmother Maria, the mother of Alexander Yatsko.

– You work with Alexander Domogarov in the same theater named after the Moscow City Council, as well as with your two ex-husbands Leonid Fomin and Alexander Yatsko. Are there skirmishes between you, jealousy?

– We have friendly relations with Sasha Domogarov. Even with my first husband. And we will not talk about Alexander Yatsko. I went through this period of my life.

– Why did you first marry a man who was much older than you, not the most beautiful, and moreover a tyrant, as you called him later?

– Hello, not very nice? Fomin was generally extraordinary – handsome, intelligent, talented, well-read, intelligent, he wanted to work with him throughout the course, and all the girls were in love with him. Everyone there was killed in general for this reason – work with him, work and work. All my men were worthy, there were no fools among them.

– Your second husband was never rich. Otherwise I wouldn’t have shared an apartment with you. Is a man’s material wealth important to you now?

– At the time of our marriage with Alexander Yatsko, there were no particularly wealthy actors among the actors. I don’t belong to the number of women who need a yacht, a private plane, but I also don’t want to live in a cabin. The beloved man should by no means be poorer than me.

– Are you seriously thinking about a real wedding, in a white dress and veil?

– This is the only wedding I’m thinking about. Lately I often dream of getting married and my dress is beautiful, beautiful and suddenly I say: “No, I don’t want to, why all this?” They tell me: “Len, how is it? So we all gathered, everything is almost ready for us!”. I say: “No, I thought so and decided that I need another husband.” But now my heart is not free and I will marry in a white dress.

I didn’t have a wedding dress, I didn’t have this crazy celebration, with a veil, with guests, and I think, of course, that we must somehow sort this out and play a real wedding. If it doesn’t work for me, it definitely will for my kids. I want to go to my children’s wedding.

– Do you like getting married?

– I love, yes. And who doesn’t love? It’s a good thing. Being a wife, mother, beloved is every woman’s dream.

– What do you think about the magic of love?

– Well, you can probably bewitch a man with the help of magic, but you don’t have to. Because it’s an artificial story, not a real one. And also why you have to pay for any magic. Here. And how a person will pay for it is not yet known. Therefore, it is expensive and useless.