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Les Zadniprovskyi Forest (Photo: Kanal DIM)
People’s Artist of Ukraine Les Zadniprovsky spoke about the scandal with actress Larisa Kadochnikova, who gave a speech in Russian at the awarding ceremony of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine named after Serhiy Parajanov.
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In an interview with Obozrevatel, theater, film and dubbing actor Les Zadniprovskyi (since 1980 he has been working at the National Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko) criticized Kadochnikova’s position (Marichka from Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors). The People’s Artist of Ukraine delivered a speech in Russian on the award stage. Journalist Ruslan Koshovenko asked the artist to switch to Ukrainian, but Kadochnikova refused. After criticism on the Internet, the actress said that “confused”, and added that she switched to Ukrainian on stage.
Zadniprovskyi rebuked Kadochnikova that she “uses language only in order to earn a salary”, and noted that he does not believe in her apology.
“I don’t believe that she was confused, as she later justified herself, – says Les Zadniprovskyi. — Larisa is enough, excuse me, an elderly person, an experienced actress who has been on the screen all her life, on the stage of the Lesya Ukrainka Theater. And to say that I suddenly got scared – I don’t believe it. And playing in such films, which have become iconic for Ukrainian society, and then saying “what a difference” is also unacceptable. She declared from the stage that it is enough that she plays Ukrainian in the theater. Does it come out, does it use language just to earn a salary? A person who lived in Ukraine all his life did not manage to learn the language. This is about limitations or big-power stupidity. And I repeat: I do not believe in those apologies. She knows what time we live in, what is happening in Ukraine. He doesn’t live in space, does he? He watches TV, listens to the news, escapes from rocket attacks in a bomb shelter. Such, sorry, obscurity does not adorn the actress, who occupied an honorable place in the pantheon of Ukrainian cinematography. I had a completely different attitude towards her, and now I have written off this person for myself,” commented Les Zadniprovskyi.
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