“What is your relationship with Stupka?” – Gordon asked the actor.
“Interesting. Interesting,” admitted Zadneprovsky.
“He was a difficult person, by the way,” the journalist noted.
“Oh, the kingdom of heaven, Lord,” Zadneprovsky sighed and crossed himself. “If he loved someone, he could make him rich. If he hated, then he would live with the light. He didn’t have an average – here it is: either white or black.”
Zadneprovsky emphasized that there were actors and actresses in the theater who were close to Stupka, but did not name their names.
“And who did you hate?” – Gordon asked.
“I don’t want to remember, but it’s not for nothing that they created [актеры Богдан] Benyuk and [Анатолий] Khostikoev [театральную] company. Because life forced them, they didn’t play anything in the theater,” said the artist.
Zadneprovsky noted that Stupka did not give him leading roles either.
“But compared to others, I had roles, good, high-quality supporting roles,” the actor admitted.
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Context
Bogdan Stupka was born on August 27, 1941 in the village of Kulikov in the Lviv region. In 1961 he graduated from the studio at the Lviv Ukrainian Drama Theater named after Zankovetskaya, and studied at the correspondence department of the philological faculty of the Lviv State University named after Franko. In 1984 he graduated from the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts named after Karpenko-Kary with a degree in theater studies.
Until 1978, Stupka was an actor at the Zankovetskaya Theater in Lviv, and after that at the Kyiv Drama Theater named after Franko. From 1999 to 2001 he was the Minister of Culture and Arts of Ukraine in the government of Viktor Yushchenko. From 2001 until the last days of his life he was the artistic director of the Franco Theater.
He died at the age of 71 on July 22, 2012 after a long illness with cancer. He was buried at the Baikovo cemetery in Kyiv.
Zadneprovsky was born in 1975 in Kyiv into an acting family. He graduated from the acting department of the Kyiv State Institute of Theater Arts named after Ivan Karpenko-Kary. Since 1996 he has been serving at the Franco Theater.
