The role of Constance Bonacie - probably the most stellar in the career of Irina Alferova. A huge number of spectators (in our country), another Constance already simply do not represent. But, according to the idea of the director George Jungvald-Khilkevich, it should have been, nevertheless, a little bit different. He saw Constance more refined-cunning, crafty, elusive
I do not know how many actresses have been auditioning for this role. In the album there are photos for the film, for example, this is Constance
This, if I'm not mistaken, Natalia Saiko's photo test
But what the director wanted from Madame Bonacieux, he saw in Evgenia Simonova. Here is her photo test
It was in it he saw the necessary "French ease"
Here is another snapshot of the working materials - Constantia-Simonova and Buckingham-Kostolevsky (yes, the role of the English minister, who was enamored of the French queen, was originally given to Kostolevsky)
But the television guide to Constantia had other plans. The fact is that at that time a multiseries film "Walking by Flour" was successfully performed on television, where the sisters of the Bulavins were played by Irina Alferova and Svetlana Penkina. That's it they wanted the leadership of CT to see in the two main roles of the new film. Penkin in the role of Milady Winter. Here is her photo test
And Alferov in the role of Constance
For the director, it was a shock. And if for the role of Milady he still managed to push Margarita Terekhova (although initially he was seen in this role by Elena Solovei, but this is another story, I told you already), then Alferov's candidacy was staunchly put to the candidacy of Alferov
That's just a contact with the director with the actress on set and did not work. Here is how he remembered it: "Before Ira Alferova - Ms. Bonacieux, I feel guilty, because I did not put in her as much director's love and care, as, for example, Alice Freundlich or Lena Tsyplakova.The fact is that Ira was imposed on me. And that irritated me ... We had normal relations and she was satisfied with her role, but it was difficult for her to shoot, she had problems with musicality, it was hard for her to dance and sing at the same time, she was a little stooped, and Ira Alferova - a deeply Slavic type, and the French lightness just bears her Twain. I have not changed my conception of reading of the image and coached Il that easily could make Simon ... "
In addition, the director was not satisfied with the voice of Alferov. He believed that he was too low and rude for Constance. As a result, we see Alferov in the film, and we hear another beautiful woman of our cinema - Anastasia Vertinskaya, whose "high, ringing timbre", according to Khilkevich, approached Madame Bonacieux much better. And the vocal parts were performed by Elena Dryatskaya
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Memories of the director of the film "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers" by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich, photographs from the personal archive of N. Vashchilin and the archive of the Odessa film studio
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