when i was with there's things we dare to ask oh, oh, so i have to ask you, the 1st thing is about an up or down here. well, it's very different. well, it's a very different atmosphere in the circumstances and everything totally different. first of all, i mean people are flying up there. not here here they're just walking and there's

gravity. so this is a completely different feeling which i miss already, which i already miss. because the fact that you don't feel any weight, then you can like push yourself a little bit and fly until you stop yourself. is something you cannot experience here on earth. maybe that you loved it so much because it was something you feel. but if you'd been, after 6 months, you'd just be at the and please i just want to feel as well. yeah, i'm sure that's a part of it. and if her spend there 6 months, i would missed earth and i would want to come back as soon as possible. but when i talk to other customers up there, usually their intention is to fly in to spend as much time up there as possible with needs. so it's a little different. there are certain certain, you know, aspects of life up there that i had to get used to. and i never quite did as you

know, in washing yourself for eating and going to a toilet. i mean it's, it's very uncomfortable there. you know, a person can use, again, can, can get used to anything pretty much, but those are the aspects that us, that are the hardest to get used to. other than that, i mean, it's a, it's a state of flight. and you know, we have a perspective on the view of earth and nothing down here can beat that. it must be pretty amazing for you having not trained all your life and dreamt of becoming unless i'm wrong, a cosmo to suddenly have that opportunity and become sort of an average person. he thought, unimaginable. well, i'm technically, i am technically a cosmo, but i don't feel like i'm more on the same level of training and on the same level of competence about space in international space station as the guys who trained for 10 years to to be up there. i did dream about that by the

way, i dreamt about it when i was a child in russia was common. it was eighty's. when i was about 567, i was very common among russian kids to dream was phase because face cause when i was world were big heroes back then people knew their names. unfortunately, i like now. i did dream, but i had a huge book and bought space was this stick? so i was looking at it and reading, trying to read it and trying to understand that i had them. i was asking other people to read passages out of it. i didn't dream about this for many years, but i, i remember as a kid dreaming about that after that space came back to me with my feature film was called saudi 7 most. so the space came back to my life. and it me actually took a lot of it because i was also co author of the script i was was rewriting the script. and before i started rewrites, i had to do

a lot of research. you can just start writing anything you had to kind of understand, get a deep understanding of what of the, of the industry in of the history. and i had lived with the, with the space inside of me. and after that i was shooting the film and i was always thinking, oh, how is that up there? and i was trying to imitate it on earth. so really i did have i didn't have a lot of thoughts of log space since it especially flying up there. what i wanted to ask you actually when you 1st came home and you said to your wife to your mother, 2 children guys daddy's getting to, to space. what was the initial reaction? you know, because they know me, they kind of expected that to happen. so that it wasn't that how they have no, no, no, and they were very much like okay. they have another mad idea. no, no, it's not me. it wasn't that they knew i was serious. they really kind of new cars

for the new be the new me pretty well. and i say is going to happen that usually happens because effect your mother. and she said that she expected this totally from you, said you've always been the type of person who always wants to go forward and do something new. just not that he'd also like to go to space. if she can you venture to think she'd be a good faith tourist? yes, she likes to travel job. was there a moment when you were on the i assess or maybe he did peek into the luminated a moment that struck you and stayed with you when you realized forgive the pump, the gravity of what you were doing here. it was right in the beginning. it was like a 1st day when i, because the 1st day when we arrived and was very overwhelming and we were kind of shocked and we were through the take off on the and the docking. and we were very and we were exhausted and you know and shocks and it was like a mix of those feelings to. yeah, we, i remember when i,

we kind of flew around the station and we had a tour of this kid was around the, i assess the whole, i says, american section and including the american folks at the end of this tour we, we flew into the don't the cooper and i remember, you know, i was just like frozen out there, then we stopped flying because it was you. and we were just looking, which is we were just mesmerized by. and so i guess that was the 1st moment that we realize, oh my god, we are up in the space and you we are here. we're here. finally, i mean something. i mean, of course, people with train for years, but for us the training was long to every day after that the realization was getting deeper and i guess in the middle of this, of our stay there, we kind of were used to already being there. but yeah, the 1st moment was the huge perspective of the world. when you down here filming on

earth, which must seem really boring to you, now you have stuff like light engine is sound cute. so you have a whole team that you were pretty much one my mind, it was you and you and then obviously will because milton off and i was helping you thought did that make your life even more difficult or did actually make it over more satisfying knowing that you had done it from start to finish all by yourself, of course to do what she were doing this interview right now. there are 4 guys here . yeah. for her. and we just, you know, we're not flying when we're not moving. if we were moving, the lights would be somewhere there and there would be sitting up and there will checking the sound and how the here and if we were doing the walk around this office, it would be even more people. it would be more complicated. so yeah, of course, even the simple interview and there we were shooting like a movie live action film with the, with artistic light. and i was,

i was aiming for that. we weren't just, you know, just turning on the light and let's go. no, no we were, i was trying to create an atmosphere, a cinematic atmosphere there and not to have my shadows over the actors. basically i was trying to make you look pretty because she's a beautiful woman. so i wanted to emphasize that as well. it was difficult, i was also doing the sound engineering and camera mechanics and i was begging up material and i was sending it to earth for my editor to check in for the color guy. color is to make sure that i'm doing all the technical aspects of it, right. and it's not too dark and it's not too right. and it's a whole one pounds that you guys are not even focused here. if we move around, that would be problem with focus as well as i was trying to do because we're shooting on the same camera without out of focus. so i was also flying and doing

the focus racking focus. yeah, it was, i mean, but i'm not saying is it because i'm not that big of a hero that i was and i knew that that's going to be like if the technical progress would in some future allow 10 people to go up there. it would be easier for me and for a film. so get me up there. i was preparing for that. i was training for that and you will see in the movie theaters how i what can i do by myself? would you help you know, what was she? she did her own makeup. obviously i wasn't doing her, me come and she was she to cru props because the prompts were medical were doing a medical operation surgery. and so she really understood what each brought is and she kind of was doing. she was like a prop master. so she took that responsibility on to herself. she held that

cognitive was held to what they were out while the customers were actors. group was written with the understanding that i couldn't bring other actors out there. so i knew that there would would be one actress and the other customers would be also in the see in the playing on themselves piece. how does they do or should they stick to being cosmo? they were good. i mean, they did, they, they are used to being in front of the cameras to do lot of tv introductions, solo congratulating people all the time and you know, reading people and so, so they're used to being in front of the camera. also, when they are not in the scene, and i was flying around with the camera, one of them would protect me from hitting my head over like a lamp or something. that's a problem there as well. because when you, when i look in the, in the viewfinder, i just see view finder. i don't see where i'm flying is where i'm walking. i can sort of when you're walking with your,

you have an awareness of patient. what i'll do there because of 4 dimensions. you didn't realize where the ceiling where the, where the walls, because everything in the ceiling and the wall and the floor did filming in space, also have advantages to be able to give you something direct to the can't do. well, of course, that's why we were up there because i, i spend a lot of time imitating the 0 gravity and space station. so i know the limitations of what you can do. even with a huge budget. even with $200000000.00 budget, there are limitations and up there which you're trying to imitate for months there is just given, you know, everyone just is natural for them. when you are directing a space, so on earth, it's really, really, i mean, it's hard to twist your brain and assert in this, in the 4 dimension and, and to create and invent

a scene in 0 gravity way. if you do a scene where 2 people are, communicate in a way they on earth, i mean, they're pretty much standing in front of each other there on the floor. it's really uncommon if like a person would be standing on the, on the wall here or on the ceiling. but there, it's very natural, some scenes i shot the way i, i realized that i wouldn't be able to invent on earth because i is just your mind doesn't twist that weight. it's hard, it's just technically hard to shoot. it's hard move there. you have to get used to like, and on the earth you say, well, you get in the door and stand up here. and usually there is no problem with it. and there in, you know, some person can get in the door and, and up there. and it just loops that happens, you know, there's no one more take it. so that's that space. oh, a

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join me every thursday on the alex salmon. sure. i'll be speaking to guess on the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. oh oh, entertainment industry expanding itself into many other aspects of human life. that's a cross promotion. i mean, because of that, people will realize that our spaces and i assess and space is be, can be closer to people, can it would be easier for them to reach it and they would get more interested in that. and space usually feel people with think about space and they

think that all well as something like i somewhere up there and i'm not even close to it. maybe this film and us flying up there when getting prepared in 4 months can change the mindset a little bit about space and people would say, well, maybe i can shoot a film there. maybe i can fly to space and it doesn't take 10 years for, for a person to fly up to one aspect. also the people that talked a little bit is that there is now a movie space race, because of course tom cruise was also due to go up in the autumn. admit, it's a quite nice that you got that fast feeling on very competitive place. forced to lou and it's always nice to be 1st. do you think that this is going to kick off and not this? so i didn't feel like i don't feel like i closed that. i assess is assuming there's nothing more that anyone can do there. no, no,

i think it's just the beginning and i, people will look at what i have shopped there and lucy, well, okay. now understand what we can do there. and of course, we'll tell we'll talk about my experience to get filmmakers who would be interested in also shooting the i assess and i will kind of share my experience and do's and don'ts and get guessed they would. the 2nd one second. this is filmmaker when it would be much easier for them the he played the path. well because i kind of, i didn't know what to expect in many ways. now, i can talk to the filmmakers in the filmmaking terms of what it is and what he would, what do you expect and what, what it was you shouldn't even try to do. and many things like that space gives you a perspective onto itself that it's hard to even come up with being on earth

like the white. also what chris happy about canadian optimal. he said, i think the hardest thing for them is going to be lighting. well, it wasn't really the hardest, it was just the fact that we had to wait for it. sometimes it's just that once every 40 minutes had changes into being dark and then a change is going to be light again. but what those transitions are really magical when, because it doesn't, it's not just like the sunset and some it's also something. it's hard to come up with the sun stars to changing into like a rainbow lights. and some seem like we have the scene with you is sitting in front of the illuminate or we're just talking with the earth. sun starts to change in so many ways and that created a special space magical light, which i mean, you can imitate here, but i wouldn't just, i would have,

would not have been able to create the, come up with that. the idea of, of the challenge and how to, how it was born and whether it was something that you knew kind of, that you always want to do. and you see the opportunity. what that you adapted for this opportunity. you know, actually when i got a proposition of making directing a film in space, i knew the limitations that we would have only 2 chairs to go up there and and i didn't want to have too much c, g i in the film and i wanted to shoot everything real so. busy i came up with the idea of the story with the, those kind of circumstances in mind, but the story was invented originally and producers likes it and old all the 3 companies the, they accepted it right away. so i don't know how to answer. maybe in some way i

adapted to the circumstances, circumstances, and in many ways i seized the opportunity from the time that sort of the idea was born until the launch from bible, how much time passed to little more than a year. okay, so now year in one month, i think for a long time, did you find that you got the help of ross cosmos as well? well, they're one of the producers. exactly. did you find that they really helped and invested well in that, in with their help and investment and would be impossible. so of course, yet they did. did they did only could to help me with it. of course they, they couldn't do more than they could with that in mind that i, s s o is not a shooting stage is to science objects object of science and, you know, cause when i was, are there doing the working there really busy love with filming with other stuff,

so they did everything i guess they possibly could. they also, we, i mean, we focused a lot of course on you and hulu because you were making the fast feature length film in space. this is obviously your pioneers of that. but obviously people watching you back home probably a bit worried as well. we are children really excited when they heard that you were going to go with the world? well, my daughter was kind of nervous a little bit and she was trying to launch mice. my oldest son was very confident, at least he looked like that. he never expressed any fear for me. and my youngest son is too young to, to kind of realize what's going on. do you have any connection when you way i call them? i call them when we had a tell who video connection one time i really had no time for many phone calls. there really is you probably have noticed i was. ready kind of like a beard when i, when they, when i didn't have one before,

like i really didn't have time there to shave. it just takes a lot of like 5 times longer and i was like, well, do i really need to shave? maybe i can shoot and start shooting out days. yeah. yeah. so the process is take there longer than on earth. if i was there for a couple of months then i would start missing them and everything but and in that short period of time when so much work to do, i really didn't have time to miss was take off. all that was launch was more light. you know, it was more like a, like a ride like a roller coaster ride. amazing rollercoaster, right descent the. busy the launch room was not as bad as people think we experienced only 2 and a half. geez. i think the key for did you for the g force only that it was, i think it was 2 and a half only. so it wasn't that at all. the lending was think above for maybe 4 and

a half when we were trained for 8 so. so it wasn't that at all. no, the landing was when the parachute opened, it was like the, the capsule was going like this. but again, i thought it would be going like $360.00 before we before the winning american astronaut shane. shane said that he did it twice and it was like a wild ride. it was a wild ride, but i thought it would be like 10 times wilder. so yeah, it's quite right and, and then when you came, but you said obviously it's not just about preparing for being that. when you come back you would then take and i think star city, what you to acclimatize re adapt to noise. there were 3 or 4 days of that was a difficult and then when you take out of that, there were there were because your head had to adjust to the gears. scope in your head. didn't realize were getting where the floor was the ceiling and so it took me

through 2 to 3 days for that to kind of start walking confidently. you look pretty relaxed when you learn to at least in the photos. it was something quite cinematic about it. in fact, you know, was sitting with her sunglasses on you were sitting i think with your legs crossed you both just looked like, oh yeah, we just come back from a ride. was our huge sense of relief when you got down, but everything have been done safely that you've gone off and you've done what you set out to do. but you. oh yeah, there was a well like after you do some something being. ready hard and you feel satisfaction that you've done that, that you went through it and then that you you feel i feel good about myself, that shooting plan that we set out to for, for their, for i assess was, was completely finished and that i shot everything i was i planned and, and,

and it looks pretty good. anything and the producers were happy with it. and i had the feeling of satisfaction of the fact that you completed a huge task for you as the director of the earth is really boring. you've already been up space, so i mean being that dom that. so what's next? i mean, there's nothing left, but what malls the moon will know, it doesn't mean that you know, i would just expand into the universe and then and then fly into another galactic. no, i don't think like that. i have other projects and it's not boring for me. to shoot as film or at all i, i have many projects that are waiting for me to the to get to know after i complete, of course, the principal shooting of the challenge. no, i, i'm very interested in just a symbol human stories. maybe they will be somehow in reached by my experience of

flying, and maybe i will open them up a little different than i that i thought. but no, it's not like i'm going to be now flying, getting ready to to film on the moon or mars. no, there's no plan like that. you talked about the films being released internationally talking about release. what kind of timeline do you think? well, it definitely is going to be the earlier than the end of the next year because it's got a wall. well yeah, they're really doing up for 12. do you feel that it's a test? hopefully the greatest paddle wheel drive and as a person, as a filmmaker totally as a person and it, of course it, sir, there is going to be life before that in life after that. then finally i'm going to ask you as if they said you want to go again, would you go again? yeah. mit not this week, but maybe next thursday. i can do that. well, why we go? i'll just reapply model is to gravity. i and some other some things i have to

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