"I have never regretted that I left the cinema"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Olga Budina, who celebrates her 45th birthday next month, has appeared on screens less and less often in the past few years and almost never appears at secular film parties. A few years ago, Olga stopped acting in TV shows and going on the theatrical stage, and for this she had serious reasons.

About the first movie role

In his first film “The Romanovs. Crowned family”I started filming when I was a student at the Boris Shchukin Theater School. The film was shot by the outstanding Soviet director Gleb Panfilov. According to the plot, my heroine fell ill with measles, so they shaved my head for the role. Although the film is about the last two years of the royal family, we went bald throughout the film, as if our hair could not grow. But the director wanted it so. The film was released in 2000, filming began in 1996 - this was the very time when people in our country thought about cinema as the last thing. I remember that we lived on coupons in Moscow and the Moscow region. It was very hard.

About cheating in the movies

In my filmography there were the roles of four historical characters. Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanovna, the youngest daughter of Nicholas II, Galina Kuznetsova, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, Stalin's wife, and Margarita Konenkova, a scout. All these women lived in the early twentieth century. So the stories that are told about them in the films can be regarded as fairy-tale works. That's how I feel about it. This is the view of the screenwriter. But now we live in a time when documentaries can turn out to be fake.

On the reasons for leaving the acting profession

My last role was the scout Margarita Konenkova. She was suspected of having an affair with Albert Einstein. According to the plot of the film, she entered into a relationship not only with him in order to take out the development of an atomic bomb to Russia. Another cranberry. But today they cannot give money for another ideology. Thus, seven years ago, I ended my acting career. I did this when I realized that I needed to figure everything out. I warned all the producers that I was finalizing all the contracts that I had signed, and thus I left the enterprise, left television and the cinema. At the same time, she kept excellent relations with everyone. And I never regretted it, because I needed privacy to put my own brains in place. Most of all I regret that the films, to which I gave a lot of energy and everything that I had, turned out to be mouthpieces of lies.

About proper rest

I have only one criterion for rest: I like to go where no one will touch me. On vacation, you still need an atmosphere of peace and quiet. But for a long time already I practically do not go anywhere, because we have a dacha. This is the most comfortable place to stay - no one else will touch it there. I like to walk in the forest, find berries and mushrooms, I like picking raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries. There are people who live in the country, so they know when and what to plant. But I still come from time to time, so I don't know much about this issue. Although sometimes I can weed the beds.

About approaches to education

In my opinion, it is categorically impossible to engage in the early development of children, because the body of a child up to the age of seven must first of all spend energy on formation and growth. It is not necessary to take energy from the child's body for mental improvement, it is not clear why. After all, a child at an early age has a short memory: he quickly forgets, and there is no point in teaching him something. When he grows up, he will be able to take as much knowledge as possible. In any case, any training should not begin earlier than seven years.

In general, now there is an information war, our children hear the slogans "take everything from life!" and "we live once" … These are typical slogans of a consumer society, but we were brought up on other concepts. We had a developed sense of shoulder, help. This is what our Russian folk tales call for, about which we have completely forgotten. And you also need to watch our old movies with your children so that they immerse themselves in a different psychology, a different worldview. So that they understand: well, you can't just row to yourself, because you will be left alone. The era of hucksters for our children must end.

About son

My son is already fifteen. Unlike me, he is an introvert, he has no artistic inclinations. He dreams of becoming a programmer and dealing with cybersecurity in our country. I would not want to impose something on my child. In my opinion, parents should provide children with the opportunity to express themselves in different areas in order to understand what they will have a penchant for. I think if a child finally feels his abilities, this will be the most correct investment in him, trust in him and his talents.

About social media

I am not on Instagram or Facebook, although there are accounts with my name everywhere. These are fakes. Instead of me, someone is texting there, and I cannot remove all this. That is, I send a complaint to the support service of social networks, the page disappears, and after a couple of months it reappears. Sometimes people come up to me and say: “Hello! Do you remember, I told you this, and you answered me that?”… People sometimes have difficult situations, because they think they just told me some secrets, something else, but I don't even know, with whom they communicated. This is such a dangerous thing, and I always strive to warn everyone: do not communicate on the Internet with any Olga Budins, because it is not me. In general, people somehow have fun, do not want to live their own lives, but live someone else's. In my free time I am engaged in self-education: I read, study and use my brain.

About lifestyle

We must not fall asleep in a sad state. Before going to bed, you must definitely bring yourself to a state of happiness, joy and fall asleep in this bliss, then your dreams will be wonderful. There is scientific evidence that in this state we can simulate the most wonderful future - each for his family and our Earth.

About the fight against theft

I was doing repairs in an orphanage in the city of Uglich. I found money, a construction company, and we repaired it inside and out. From the sewer to the roof. As a result, I saw a lot of all kinds of violations in this orphanage. But I needed proof: documents, facts … The employees said that it was impossible - they work here and value their workplace. But a year later, the chief accountant called me and said that she was ready to testify. I took all the documents where there were kickback schemes, where it is clear that they took sponsorship for themselves, they kept all state funding for themselves. I understood that it was difficult for me to fight this colossus alone - I’m just an artist, and I need someone to stand behind me. Despite the fact that I had documents, there was heavy artillery on the other side, because the director of the orphanage - previously convicted, by the way - turned out to be the daughter-in-law of the head of the district. Everything was captured there. And then I went for broke, called the Russian channel and asked about the air. The next day, the Prosecutor General's Office opened a criminal case under three articles. The investigation lasted a whole year. I was in Uglich, I was never invited to a court session. Moreover, when I had filming days there, the court session was postponed at the last moment to the days when I had filming in other cities. They did their best not to be there. And as a result, instead of a real term, they gave a suspended sentence. Then they put up a notice not to be allowed into the orphanage. I stopped appearing there, but still, it seems to me, these children think that I left them. Now another woman is in charge of the orphanage, and the one who was given a suspended sentence has the right to become a director again.

About life after cinema

Now I am running my own festival of family amateur theaters, and I also have my own foundation, which is very wrong, because no one gets paid there. We help to solve problems in the field of social orphanhood. But every year it becomes more and more difficult to do this …