Anna is ready to work in the frame even without clothes
February 15 marks the 45th anniversary of one of the most colorful actresses of our cinema, Anna Ukolova. While the new, 6th, season of the Ivanov-Ivanov comedy series with her participation is being shown on STS, Express Newspaper decided to highlight several contradictions in the character of the movie star. According to our observations, one can say about her in the words of the heroine from the “Pokrovsky Gates”: “I’m all so awkward, all so contradictory.”
1. A student with a golden chain
Anna graduated from the acting course of Sergei Prokhanov’s “mustachioed nanny” at GITIS with a red diploma. She was escorted to the capital to study by the entire village of Sbornny near Syzran, where the daughter of the head of the House of Culture was born and raised. The dressmaker sewed her a beautiful dress, which Ukolova still keeps.
Prokhanov appreciated the temperament of the applicant, but advised not to wear the thick gold chain in which she came to enter the institute. Where a girl with an intelligent mother who raised her without a husband (the father of the future artist moved to Kamchatka for the sake of another woman when Anya was 6 years old) got such an expensive thing, one can only guess. Although the famous highway Moscow – Chelyabinsk stretched through the village, along which foreign cars were driven in the 90s. So there were enough criminal guys surrounded by Anya in her youth.
In the series “Translator” with Vitaly Khaev
2. Protects Weinstein and sends Serebrennikov
In the midst of a scandal with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Anna publicly came to his defense:
– 15 years ago he made the career of many Hollywood actresses. All this time they were silent about his encroachments. Only now they remembered – some kind of Weinstein. Each of them gave him. For this he made a star out of each. Now Harvey is in prison, all emaciated. The actresses are cheering.
At the same time, Ukolova herself did not hide the fact that when one director gave her an ultimatum – to sleep with him, otherwise she would block the way to the cinema, she did not get into her pocket for a word. And she answered: “If you touch me again, I will cover you once and for all.”
– I’m in chocolate now, and he’s in the ass, – Anna rejoices. And she is glad that at one time she refused to follow the lead of the director-provocateur Kirill Serebrennikov: – He was very surprised that in his performance I didn’t spread my legs naked and shout “Fuck me, Satan!” Anna recalled, adding that similar – beyond good and evil.
On the set of the film “The Edge” Mashkov behaved like a soldier
3. Kind soul with a high fee
Anna has a high stake. She earns much more than her husband Sergei, a simple employee and father of her only 11-year-old son Makar. And he does not hide that he wants to live richly. At the same time, the actress financially supports the suffering, including her mother and her fellow villagers.
– I can help a stranger, because there are situations when a person has no one to turn to. Then someday they will help me, – the movie star explains.
4. Drinking and body protests against alcohol
In 2016, Anna got into a loud scandal at Sheremetyevo Airport, making a brawl while intoxicated. However, he believes that actors are always made scapegoats.
Drunk Anna was also seen at film festivals, where, especially before marriage, she often went. And then podshofe met her future husband. Confessed:
“If he hadn’t picked me up drunk in a club, I would never have gotten married. I couldn’t live with anyone. Sergei idolizes me, and I’m like a princess with him.
However, Ukolova notices that she cannot “thump for more than two days”:
– I don’t have a drink. My body does not accept alcohol in large doses. At the institute, they gave me good advice: “Learn to break off.” I learned. This did not allow me to “get pissed off, go into alcoholism, drugs.” I have never skidded or blown off the roof.
In the black comedy “Decent People” with Sergei Shnurov
5. Male gaze and female weakness
Before marriage, she was somewhat masculine and rough. Yes, and a low voice sometimes came out sideways.
“One guy mistook me for a transvestite,” Anna recalled, mechanically rubbing her face, where she had been punched. – At the same time, I was in an acting company. I had long hair, wore a cap, jeans,. Voice after chronic sleep deprivation. The man decided that I was a transvestite and I needed to be taught a lesson.
The strong beginning in Ukolova has not died until now. Talking about her marriage, she assures that she is ready to look at the world with a male gaze and can “rule the family”:
– I’m the captain! At the same time, I still try to behave in such a way that the husband is the main one in the family. As for work, I like to play tough and even cruel heroines. They are my antipodes. If I myself never raise my hand against another person, then they can. The profession allows you to know the world in its entirety.
As a prostitute (second from left) in the drama “Point”
6. Workaholic and lazy
Over 25 years of her career, Anna has played more than a hundred roles in films, plus she works on the stages of several theaters. She cooks and cleans the house herself. At the same time, he makes time for extreme sports and reading. All the more surprising is her confession:
– I am very lazy! For example, I can not lose weight because of laziness. Beautiful things have to be thrown away. Laziness is my scourge.
Galina Nikolaevna, Anna’s mother, died a year and a half ago at 71
7. Love and hate for partners
Anna can easily offend a colleague, especially if he is a man. On almost every project, he makes fun of partners, calling them “narcissists”, “narcissistic boobies” and even “brides”.
Artists are afraid of Ukolov and try to stay away from her. At the same time, she herself puts on makeup for the longest time before entering the site. For as long as she did, only the now deceased beauty Alexandra Yakovleva wore makeup.
Sometimes there are daredevils who try to care for Anna. For example, on the set of the film “The Edge”, Vladimir Mashkov persistently showed her signs of attention, who loves women head and shoulders above him. But Anna quickly stopped the encroachments and offered friendship to Vladimir. And he accepted her choice.
Photo source: Personal archive, Archive of press services
