The star of the TV series “Aunt Marta” Alexander Metelkin will become a robot servant

The STS TV channel, together with Art Pictures Vision and Black Box Production, launched the Cyber ​​Ivan comedy series about a failed actor who is forced to portray a robot servant.

According to the plot, Ivan (Alexander Metelkin) accidentally breaks the latest android, created in his own image. To help his engineer father (Dmitry Astrakhan), Ivan is forced to pretend to be a robot in the home of Boris (Kamil Larin), a regional innovation minister, and his wife, Rita (Yanina Studilina). The actor will have to fight not only with the threat of disclosure, but also with feelings for the impregnable daughter of an official (Anastasia Akatova).

The main role in the new comedy is played by the star of the series “Aunt Martha” Alexander Metelkinwho worked with the choreographer before filming and watched films about robots: “The film “I was made for you” helped me a lot. But in this case, I need to become not a real robot, but a person who plays a robot. And since my hero — failed actor, the worse I play the robot, the better.” Make-up and a costume also help Alexander get used to the image: overalls, gray lenses and a wig.

Unlike his gadget-loving hero, Camille Larin not ready for the presence of a robot servant in his house. “I like to do things myself. Of course, when there is no time, I admire the slow cooker and other “helpers” that make life easier. But I probably don’t see such a robot in my apartment. Unless you bring slippers, the actor joked.

I agree with my screen husband and Yanina Studilina: “Like my heroine, I am still wary of robots with a human appearance. Another thing is a robot vacuum cleaner, a robot dog and an unmanned taxi, which we have in the story. Of course, we are moving towards this. And what we are shooting now, in five years, most likely, will be the norm.

If the artists created the taxi and the vacuum cleaner themselves, then the cyberdog, which has a separate storyline in the series, is an active robot named I-rina. The mechanical “actress” can run, dance, stand up on its hind legs, climb stairs and follow the owner.

The main locations were Boris’s house and office and the engineer’s laboratory. Interior shooting takes place in Moscow, and for the main part of the full-scale shooting, the group went to Novosibirsk. Academgorodok, where the hero of Dmitry Astrakhan works, the Globus Theater, Novosibirsk State University and other objects will get into the frame.

Inna Shkarbanova.

Photos from the set