The World Championship medalist ended his athletic career 2.5 years ago. Now he acts in films and trains synchronized swimmers. What a twist! We told him about a new stage in life.
– Roman, why did you stop your career?
– The prospects of breaking into the national team were vague. I had a difficult exit from the coronavirus, I thought I would get through another season, but after all the illnesses and operations there was no chance of staying. I made a choice in favor of finishing, I started looking for other opportunities to support my family.
In fact, I’m still looking. I tried my hand at trading. Until recently, he worked in a fitness club, but not as actively as immediately after the end of his career. I didn’t see a light, I didn’t see a drive either. Since the fall, I have been invited to work with the synchronized swimming team. They changed the rules, and now there is even more work with acrobatics. Such involvement in the highest performance sport is very important to me.
– In which team do you work?
– In “Youth of Moscow”, with Tatyana Evgenievna Danchenko and Elena Voronova.
– Synchronized swimming is hard and meticulous work, our coaches work the smallest details so meticulously. Are you coping with this stress?
– It’s unusual in the women’s team, but I only work with tricks, with acrobatics. We got along well. Elena Voronova is my old friend, who invited me to collaborate. In synchronized swimming, now everyone is outraged because of the rule changes, because the art is taken away from them, but on the contrary, it seems to me that the sport should be more objective. In synchronized swimming, the criteria were very vague. Now this is a clearer assessment.
I studied the technical catalog of this acrobatics, found for my part that it is beneficial in terms of coefficient and complexity. So there is now a process of adaptation to the rules.
– And what is the objectivity of the evaluation?
“Some complex elements are valued less than they should be. But we try, we choose, we work. I prepare acrobatics on land, then all this is transferred to the water. In fact, as in the jump.
– By the way, that sounds funny coming from a diver about prejudice in synchronized swimming. In diving, this is also sufficient.
“But believe me, there’s so much more to synchronized swimming than that.
– And how did you come to the cinema?
– When we just started working on this project (the film “In the Stream of the Three Elements”, the release of which is planned for the end of the year – approximately), there was a set of stunt doubles, athletes . I had to send a video business card, fill out a questionnaire. I did it, basically, sitting on the couch, and a month later the director contacted me and invited me to the casting. I didn’t really understand what was going on then, but in the end they left me. Of course, all this is interesting. It’s a breath of fresh air after sport.
– It’s time to joke about Jason Statham and the fact that, unlike him, you won the Spring Swallows tournament and even won the world championship.
– Like without. Well, yes there is, haha. By the way, I had filming experience before that – in the show “Tower”. But a full meter is yet another story. I had such a dream in my subconscious, there were such messages to the Universe, which are now coming true.
– Are you an understudy or do you have a role in your own right?
– A real role! With words! I don’t just jump. It was a discovery for me how difficult the work of the film crew is – the light, the sound, the cameras, the cameramen, the people work very, very hard. Giant responsibility. You have to get into the timing, into the sun – whether it’s gone or not… There are a lot of details, everything has to be taken into account, everything has to be planned…
Cinema is an art, but production is a serious, long and complex process.
– What do the actors say after discovering your sport?
“There are a lot of positive things. Most people didn’t even know about diving before. In fact, people like our sport in general. I also participate in Maria Kiseleva’s show – we jump swings, towers. I see the reaction of the public! It’s exciting. Unfortunately, not many people have heard of our sport, but in connection with the work that is currently underway within the federation, thanks to the broadcasts, in particular thanks to the filming, I think this situation can be overcome.
– Have you ever dragged one of the actors to jump from the tower?
– Many jumped from 10 meters, Sasha Golovin himself, preparing for the role, jumped.
– Did everything end well?
– Everything went well. In the end, for a fit person with some preparatory exercises, it is not so difficult to jump from 10 m. Diving from a height, of course, requires special training.
“Surely someone got on the diving platform!”
— During filming, it was scary to see people filming from a 20-meter platform. No one was afraid, everyone was working.
How did you prepare for the shoot?
– I studied for two months with a theater coach, there were many meetings with the director, reading the script. In cinema, there are a lot of takes, of cameras. I’m just starting to get into this story. You need to be able to do a lot of things – for example, to hold back this or that emotion. But they seem to be praising me, of course, that’s nice (laughs).
What will audiences like in this film?
– There are dramatic moments, there is an interesting intrigue with former athletes. More beautiful shots, beautiful jumps. Our very spectacular sport will be presented. I’m not going to spoiler, but it’s not without action!
Source : MatchTV
I’m John White and I’m an experienced journalist working in the news industry. My specialty is covering sports news, which I’ve been doing for over 6 years now. During this time, I have worked as an author with Athletistic, a popular online news website focusing on sports topics.
