November 11, 2022 7:30 pm
The actress became a victim of the director’s antics.
Leonid Gaidai was remembered not only for his directorial talent. The director had a rather difficult character, due to which he often had disagreements with the actors. And the master did not miss the opportunity to take revenge on them, putting them in a bad light.
It was not possible to avoid this fate and Natalya Varley. The actress played the role of Nina in the “Prisoner of the Caucasus”. In one of the episodes, comrade Saakhov goes to his heroine, taking a bottle of champagne with him. He came out, all covered in red spots, which raises a variety of thoughts about the kind of tricks the circus performer did with his colleague.
It is worth noting that Gaidai could very well have treated Varley cowardly after he hadn’t reciprocated. The actress said that while filming the tape she was harassed by the director, who was rejected in a rather rude way.
