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L (to R): Come on with this hat now, maybe you can pick a safer topic.
R (looking into his hat): And here you folded it so neatly, here again Milokhin ...
Zhenya (takes out a piece of paper and reads it): One million on Instagram ...
L: The announcement that the number of Medvedeva's followers on Instagram has reached a million was [serious] news. The number has exceeded a million, yes ... Has your life changed?
Zhenya: One million two hundred thousand ...
L: Yes, already a million two hundred thousand. While we were writing the questions, another two hundred thousand were added (everyone laughs). Has anything changed in your life?
Zhenya: No. There are more advertisers, more offers. This is, of course, good for me.
R: Super description...
(L and R make some gestures that should hint at something)
Zhenya: Yes, a marathon. Two thousand rubles. Come ... Well, what else can I say? I have a lot of advertisements in my profile now. We try to shoot advertisements as high quality and beautiful as possible, so that users are interested, so that there is no such thing: (shows "bad advertising")
L: (Points to the glass that Zhenya was raising, portraying "bad advertising") And this is drawn, right? Like Borodina's scrambled eggs were added using Photoshop ...
(Zhenya laughs)
L: You didn't know?
R: There was a very funny story ...
Zhenya: Did she advertise scrambled eggs?
R: No, I don't remember exactly, some kind of dairy product or something like that, but the point is that there was scrambled eggs in the ad, which was actually a picture.
Zhenya: It's funny!
R: Well, can we expect anything from you? For example, a YouTube channel with some show, or ...
Zhenya: Once upon a time I really had such an idea, but so far it remains an idea, because there is a lot of work. I think it will take a long time to make quality videos. Even if we shoot some kind of advertisement, even a simple one, where it says “install the application on your phone,” we do professional filming, and it takes at least five to six hours. This is an ad to be posted on an Instagram post. And for YouTube ... it's not for me to tell you guys about this.
R: You're a perfectionist. You need everything to be perfect.
Zhenya: If you do, then do well!
L: That is, what is happening here today is unacceptable for Evgenia Medvedeva, as for a YouTuber?
Zhenya: What? Why?
L: Well, let's say you run a YouTube channel, decided to come up with a show - and all this nonsense that was happening today will not happen? Well, for example, that we record a video at four in the morning?
Zhenya: Well, first of all, he's lying, we don't record a video at four in the morning, now it's 12:30 PM ...
L: Japanese time!
Zhenya: (laughs) Good joke, well done! I mean, videos don't have to be done at home somehow. You need a good camera, the right lighting, a good microphone to get good sound. You have it all - I praise! I believe that if you do, then do well. It doesn't matter what it is - a YouTube channel, an Instagram post, Tik-Tok - in any case, the content must be of high quality.
L: From your answer, I understood why you have more than a million subscribers on Instagram and I understood why it won't work, for example ...
R: Do you understand why you don't have a million followers on Instagram?
L: No, with me it was clear anyway ... No, that's what I was thinking - that if you miss the next episode, then ...
Zhenya: So, how much do I have in Tik-Tok? (Looks at the smartphone).
R: Wait, counting in progress ... Urgent people counting.
Zhenya: One million nine hundred [thousand]. Soon two [million].
L: This is how characters controlled by a computer behave in the game (pretending to also look at the phone). I thought that ...
Zhenya: I didn't understand anything, but I'm laughed.
L: I thought that if one of us, you or me, misses the next episode, then Zhenya can easily replace any of us.
R: Yes, and the quality of the show will improve ...
L: No, it will just be different there: “So! Why are you silent?! Tell me immediately "- there will certainly be someone there who will be interesting to listen to ...
R: Until we move on to the next topic - where is it more pleasant for you to be - on television or on the Internet? Where is more comfort?
Zhenya: I'm comfortable everywhere. I'm not saying this to get around rough edges. I am really comfortable everywhere, because I am a person who has worked in the system all my life. I have discipline. There is more discipline on television. Steps to the left or to the right are not allowed, and even TV advertisements are filmed strictly according to the regulations. And if a hair is knocked out of the hairstyle, then such a frame has to be cut out. Everything must be done clearly, in the correct intonation, with a good sound. I feel comfortable working this way. I can sometimes be sharp on my tongue, to be honest ...
L: She scolded us here even before the recording of the video, for all the mistakes, and therefore we behave approximately.
Zhenya: (laughs) I have experience of working both in a free format and according to the regulations.
(Next comes a long conversation about the semi-fraudulent "personal growth courses" on the Internet, I'll skip this, in my opinion, it's a boring topic. If anyone is interested, write, I'll translate this part too. And now I'm translating only the very end excerpt - about hypothetical ice skating courses)
L: I don’t know how to skate, but if ever I have to do it, I’ll use your video marathon "How to get on skates in five days and not fall face down on the ice."
Zhenya: There will definitely never be such a video marathon. Because I "love" the questions "Zhenya, how did you learn to skate so well." I would answer: “On YouTube, damn it! I watched [and learned]. " Or "Teach me to skate." Damn, be born again and at three years old go ... Ask your parents now so that they give birth to you anew, and so that when you are three years old, they will take you to the rink. And then not to let you out of there. Then you will learn to skate.
L: (gives Zhenya a piece of paper) take it!
Zhenya: Deserved?
L: Yes, there was a great warm-up.
R: 100%!
Zhenya: (parodies advertising) Now buy shoes! (laughs)
R: (holding out hat) Get the question out!
L: There are several [interesting to me] topics. I hope you get them exactly.
Zhenya: (reads the question) Averbukh's theater.
R: Tell me, how different is it from sports and how much do you feel like an actress and not an athlete?
Zhenya: In fact, I have always felt like an actress. And in sports too. Because I think that my strong point is the embodiment of the image, it is the ability to experience all the emotions. Don't just show emotions, but live them on ice. And when the performances began, this ability of mine increased many times over, because this is really a theater. Especially Anna Karenina is a very theatrical story. Super-complicated technical elements were not required from me, no cascades, no quads. In the play, I had only two jumps, which I can definitely perform. The rest of the work was primarily theatrical. It relied on emotions, body language ...
L: Have you studied with a teacher?
Zhenya: No.
L: "To be or not to be?" - is that all?
Zhenya: No, no, that was not the case. I haven't had a single acting class.
L: Would you like to?
Zhenya: I don't know if this is good or bad ... So far, probably not. When the rooster whistles on the mountain ...
*Note: «When the rooster whistles on the mountain» - this is a compilation of two Russian sayings: 1) when a roasted cock bites me in the ass (which means when there is an urgent need) 2) when a cancer whistles on the mountain (which means when happen something that cannot be happened)
R: I'm just wondering how similar this theater is to an ordinary theater, how much it corresponds to the general idea of the theater.
Zhenya: I don’t know, I don’t know honestly ...
R: Isn't there a drunk guy who takes out the scenery?
Zhenya: There is a guy, but how drunk he is, I don't know, because I haven't seen ...
(L and R represent drunk stage workers)
Zhenya: I don't know if he is drunk or not ... Yes, this is more a theater [than a sport], and I like it. I like the scenery, the costumes are very beautiful and I have the opportunity to prove myself as an actress. As an athlete, people already know me well enough. But to reveal myself as an actress on the ice, to show my mastery of transferring the image by 100% - I have such an opportunity now, and I am very pleased. But in fact, it's hard for me to say how physically it is more difficult or easier it turns out, because in sports the volume of skating was less, but the load was more intense. In sports there is more skating, more complex elements, but in a relatively short period of time. And now I do not leave the rink, day or night. It turns out that the load is less, but you have to withstand it for a much longer time.
Sometimes I spend eight hours on the ice every day, sometimes I want to hang myself out of it. So I don't know which is easier, the load is completely different. It is difficult both in sports and in the theater, but now I enjoy what is happening in my life.
R: Also interesting: would you like to try yourself [as an actress] not only on the ice? Movie, theater, something like that?
Zhenya: If I am offered any role other than the role of Zhenya Medvedeva, and not in a film about figure skating, but something else, I might agree to try. But so far, there is probably just nowhere to do it. Perhaps a theater. I am more inclined to choose theater than cinema because theater is more like what I did. There is a stage, there is an audience. But so far, in any case, no. So far, I have enough of my things to do.
L: Okay. Come on [pull the next question]
Zhenya: (reads the question) Two years in Canada. A-ah-ah!
L: No, no. Come on back. You can shortly ...
Zhenya: Short?
L: Very interesting, I watched Zhenya Chebatkov's stand-up here, and he said there that in Canada all the news looks something like this: "The patrol service stopped the car traffic so that the ducks would cross the road." This is the case?
Zhenya: That's right, but one day I woke up in the morning, turned on the TV, and they say the address (and this is my address) and they say that in the backyard they found a dismembered body in a garbage can (smiles)
L: Incredibly funny ...
Zhenya: I'm getting out - the elevator doesn't work. I lived there on the 18th floor. The elevator does not work, I have a suitcase with skates in my hands. I say: "Ok" ... No, then I woke up, had breakfast, went to workout, did not turn on the TV, that's what I said, hypothetically.
So, I go out, I press the button, the elevator is standing. I think: "What is it?" I start going down the stairs and see that a lot of people are going down. Next to me was a man with a child on his shoulders. This man asked me: "Do you know what happened?" I answer: “No, I don’t know. Why isn't the elevator working? " And he says to me: “Corpse. Corpse in the elevator. " I asked again: "What ?!" - and he distinctly repeated: "There is a dead body in the elevator."
I said to myself: "Ok, calm down." She went down, there was the police, everything was partitioned off, cars with flashing lights. They didn’t let me out. Then a message comes from the coach: "Are you okay?" I replied that everything is fine. I arrived at the skating rink, turned on the TV, and there they said that they had found a dismembered corpse in a trash can in the backyard of my house. The news came out: "They blocked the road so that the ducks could cross, the elk came to drink milk in someone's country house and ..."
L: ... and a dismembered corpse ...
Zhenya: And a dismembered corpse in the backyard!
L: Canada!
Zhenya: Canada! Welcome to Canada!
L: And you got scared? Have you got security?
(Zhenya makes a grimace, showing that he is not)
L: Maybe you were on the suspect list? What happened next?
Zhenya: They just asked me what I did the night before.
R: So you were interrogated?
Zhenya: Yes. They asked where I was going, they said that if I went outside now, I would not be able to go back. I said (imitating a plaintive voice): "I have half an hour left before the start of the workout, let me out." Then everything returned to normal, but an unpleasant aftertaste remained ...
R: How do you get into this elevator after that?
Zhenya: Well, it wasn't in the elevator after all. They just found a dismembered body in the backyard in the bag.
R: Just in a bag ...
Zhenya: yes, just ...
L: After that man from Japan, everything seems normal, huh?
Zhenya: In general, it was all very strange.
L: Many of those who have lived abroad for a long time and return, then say: "It was not that, not Russia, something was wrong." And then I read your interview in which you said about the same thing. You said that Canada is cool, everything is superb, but Russia is better.
Zhenya: I like Russia more, because this is my home. Because I know many places here, I know people I can help, I know those who can help me. People speak Russian here. I know English well, but not perfectly, of course, not as a native speaker, and sometimes it is difficult for me. I really liked Canada, I really miss it, and I want to go there in the near future, but to live ... If they asked: "Zhenya, where would you like to live the rest of your life" - I would like to live in Russia, because where are you was born, and came in handy there. This is my home, and I am more comfortable here. I love both Japan and Canada, but ...
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