Deputies appreciated actor Kologrivov, who was ready to play Zhirinovsky

“To perceive him as a superstar is wrong.”

Actor Nikita Kologrivy, known for his role as Kashchei in the series “The Boy’s Word: Blood on the Asphalt,” will play Vladimir Zhirinovsky in a film about the life of a politician. “MK” discussed this candidacy with deputies close to Zhirinovsky.

“Kologrivy is clearly not suited for this role,” said “MK” one of Zhirinovsky’s closest associates, ex-State Duma deputy Vasily Vlasov. – It is wrong to perceive Kologrivov as a superstar. So far, he has been in the news not because of his role, but because of his unflattering statements towards honored artists.

With all due respect to Kologrivy, this actor is quite a young man. Considering that Vladimir Volfovich began his political career at the age of 40, this will look a little strange. Kologrivy will be able to play some episodes in Almaty or during his military service. But all viewers are probably interested in Zhirinovsky’s rise as a politician. Let me emphasize, when he was over 40. The same politician Pavel Pyatnitsky, it seems to me, is more like Zhirinovsky, precisely at the start of his political career at the age of 40-45. It’s just that the party decided to pick up the news story with him.

This actor had a cameo role as the leader of a criminal gang in “The Boy’s Word.” Let’s take, for example, Lev Borisov and “Gangster Petersburg”: despite the fact that the picture is mediocre, many viewers still remember Borisov in it for his role as the leader of the underworld of St. Petersburg – after the actor played thief in law Viktor Govorov, nicknamed “Antibiotic” ” The role of Sasha Bely, also as the leader of a criminal group, brought wide fame to Sergei Bezrukov.

In turn, State Duma deputy from the LDPR Yaroslav Nilov, commenting on who could play the role of Zhirinovsky, noted that this is a matter for the director and screenwriter. According to him, he does not want to “assess amateurishly who is suitable for what role.” At the same time, the parliamentarian added that he had already met with the director.

“There is definitely an external resemblance between the young Zhirinovsky and the actor Kologrivoy,” noted Yaroslav Nilov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Social Policy, in an interview with MK, who, according to his admission, finds it difficult to evaluate the choice of an artist without a director’s education. – I met with director Alexander Baranov. It’s a small world: the director’s son interned with me about 10 years ago, and together we organized events with the participation of Zhirinovsky. On the eve of working on the script for the film, the director asked me to share the contacts of those who worked in the early years of the formation of the party. Former State Duma deputy Sergei Abeltsev, his institute friend, State Duma adviser Gennady Petrovich Avdeev, Viktor Vladimirovich Ilsky, who worked for many years in a diplomatic position, Alexey Ostrovsky, Elena Strokova – they all started working with Vladimir Volfovich. I was given the task of giving the director all the necessary material so that the film could convey the spirit, this enthusiasm of Zhirinovsky’s aspirations and worldview.

I was pleased to share my memories and contacts of people who worked with Zhirinovsky over the years, right up to the times of thirty years ago and the origins of the formation of the party system.

Network users had different perceptions of Nikita Kologrivy’s candidacy:

“Now it’s clear why Kologrivy has been trying to tell the truth about everyone and everything here lately, and leave programs with a scandal… He was simply trying on the role of Zhirinovsky”; “Well, he can yell like Zhirinovsky. Maybe he’ll play”; “There is too much show-off and arrogance. As they say, let’s see how many films there were with him in my memory, but nowhere in my memory. The image of an “idiot” and a “scumbag criminal” is his threshold; “And who will he play there? Only Zhirinovsky in his youth. And who will play him in his old age? I feel like he’ll ruin the picture”; “Kologrivy is energetically suited to the role of Zhirinovsky like no one else.”