Today it became known that the champion of the 2012 Olympic Games in rhythmic gymnastics in the all group Uliana Donskova will play the role of Valentina Tereshkova in a short film. The film will deal with the preparation of the flight into space of the first female cosmonaut. Also in this short film, one of the roles will be played by the first Olympic champion in the history of Russia (Sochi-2014) in women’s singles Adelina Sotnikova.
Russian athletes, unlike their foreign counterparts, do not usually appear in feature films. Once in the USSR, people from sports were periodically invited to minor roles, but this was also not very often and mainly in sports films. Hockey and football players were especially popular in this regard.
Shot from the movie “The Secret of the Iron Door”
For example, the two-time Olympic champion in hockey Boris Mayorov in 1969 took part in the filming of the children’s film “The Secret of the Iron Gate”, where he played himself, and the football legend “Spartak” Fyodor Cherenkov in 1974. he starred in episodic roles in the feature film “Not a word about football.”
If we take modern history, not counting the episodes of various TV shows and sitcoms, then the former world boxing champion Nikolai Valuev fully starred in the movies. In 2008, he played the main role (boxer) in the drama “Stone Head”, and in 2009 Valuev took part in the shooting of the action movie “The Way”. Otherwise, due to the busy schedule, it is very difficult for athletes, especially actors, to move into such a laborious process as working on a film set.
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The appearance, even in a short film, of two Olympic champions at the same time, especially in a non-sports film, is a certain nonsense for our realities. The more interesting it will be to see what happens in the end. Uliana Donskova was given the task of interpreting the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, from the category of ultra-si elements. The role is not easy, and if she hasn’t been in the film industry since childhood, becoming an ordinary person with such a fancy story for a while is like a feat. As for Adelina Sotnikova, how and who she will play in this film is still unknown, but she is already glad that she is definitely not herself, since in the early 60s of the last century our champion of the games in Sochi-2014 . she had not yet appeared in the light.
