to get you so other than that, i mean it's, it's a state of flight and you know, we have a perspective on a view of earth and nothing and don't he can beat that. it must be pretty amazing for you having not trained your life and dreamt of becoming on the wrong cosmonaut to suddenly have that opportunity and become sort of an average person, a thought unimaginable. well, i'm technically, i am technically a cosmo, but i don't feel like i'm on the same level of training and on the same level of competence about space and 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 dreamed about it. when i was a child in russia, it was common, it was eighty's. when i was about 567, i was very common among russian kids to dream of space because face cause when i

was world were big heroes back then and people knew their names. unfortunately, they like now i did dream, but i had a huge book in both space. was this the x. so i was looking at it and reading, trying to read it and trying to understand that i had the i was asking other people to read passages out of it. i didn't dream about this for many years, but i remember as a kid dreaming about that after that space came back to me with my feature film was call saudi 7 most vague. 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 re writing 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, although the industry and of the history and i had lived with the, with the space inside 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 did have a lot of thoughts of log space and 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 that because they know me, they kind of expected to happen. and so that it wasn't that how that happened? no, no, no, no. and they were very much like, oh okay. have another mad idea? no, no, no, it's totally. it wasn't that they knew i was serious. they, they, they kinda knew because i knew the moon, they knew me pretty well. and so i said it's going to happen usually happen because respect your mother. and she said that she expected this totally from you. so you've always been the type of person who always wants to go forward and do something new just not comes from. huh. your sense of what we of course of

course, from her as well. she said that she'd also like to go to face if she can use adventure. do you think she be a good space tourist? yes, she likes to travel. good job. was there a moment where you were on the i assess or maybe he did. he came to the room, anita 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 and i, we kind of flew around the station and we had a tour of the sky was around the i assess the whole license american section and

including the american folks at the end of this tour week we flew into the don't the cooper and i remember unit i was just like frozen out there and then we stopped flying because it was and we were just looking, which is we were just mesmerized by. and so i guess that was the 1st moment that we realized on why on 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 say 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 in being there, but yeah, the 1st moment was the that, that huge perspective of the world. obviously when you down here filming on earth, which must seem really boring key, now you have stuff like light engine is found. use that you have

a whole team that you are pretty much one my mind. it was you and you. and then over fuel, 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 it did what she were doing this interview right now and therefore guys here, shout out. yeah. for i was just, you know, when a 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, we even more people 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 white. and there was, i was aiming for that we weren't just, you know, just turning on the light and let's go, no, no we,

i was trying to create an atmosphere as 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 want to emphasize that as well. it was difficult. i was also doing the sound engineering and on 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 not a whole one pass. the guys are not even focus here. if we're moving around, that would be a problem with focus as well as i was trying to do because we're shooting on the film camera without out of focus. and 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 the big of

a hero that i was and i knew that i'm going to be like, this is the technical progress with the in some future allow 10 people to go up there. it would be easier for the film, so get me up there. that was preparing for that. i was training for that and you will see in the movie theaters how i what can i do? why self and stay with you and help you a lot. well she, she did her own makeup, obviously i wasn't doing her makeup and she was she to cook prompts because the prompts were medical. we're doing a medical opperation surgery. and so she really understood what each brought is and she kind of was new. she was like a prop master. so she took that responsibility on to herself. she held that cosmos held to what they were out on while the customers were actors. script was

written with the understanding that i couldn't bring other actors there. so i knew that there will be one actress and the other cost would be also in the see in the playing on themselves be so how did they do? what should they stick to being cosmo? they were good. i mean, they, they are used to being in front of the cameras. they do a lot of tv introductions, solo congratulating people all the time and you know, reading people in there 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 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 walking. i can sort of when you're walking with your, you have an awareness is facia, what i'll do. but there, because of 4 dimensions, you didn't realize where the ceiling where the,

where the wall, because everything can be a ceiling and the wall and the floor. filming space also have its advantages to be able to give you something so direct to the can't do. well, of course, that's why we went 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 are trying to imitate from once there is just given, you know, everyone is natural for them. when you are directing ah, a space film 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 a 0 gravity way. if you do a scene where 2 people are communicating in a way on earth,

i mean they're pretty much standing in front of each other. they're 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 way. it's hard. is this technically hard to shoot? it's hard to 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's no problem with there . and you know, some person can get in the door and up there. and this is loops that happens, you know, there's no one more take. so that's that space. oh, no.

a die. i cried. i just had slept the whole time. i was there. no one really thought anything different needed all that i just didn't feel good on the way for the surgery, his lungs failed. 30 seconds when i killed him. i had gotten stuck with so many needles that day in 2019 don't to started talking about a new wide spread. does he used it caused severe lung damage? there's a few points that were really the turning whole of the patients were diagnosed with a lung injury associated with using electronic cigarettes or facing products. he

pulled this out. he refilled. holy crap, he's gonna die. oh no, he's the better it was. i wouldn't want my worst enemy to ever go through that. it was out of breath with

a entertainment industry expending itself into many other aspects of human life. that's a cross promotion. i mean, because of that, people will realize that spaces and i assess and space is 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 him, people succeed in think it was phase and they think that all well as something they going 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 slide a space and it doesn't take 10 years for, for person to fly up there. one aspect also that people have 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, is a quite nice that you got that fast and are feeling. i'm very competitive, i played force and i used to lou. it's always nice to be 1st. do you think that this is going to kick off and not this i. so i didn't feel like i don't feel like i closed that. i assess the filming options and there's nothing more than anyone can do there. no, no, i think it's just the beginning and i, people will look in what i've shopped there and see, well, okay, now i understand what we can do there. and of course, we'll tell it we'll talk about my experience to guess filmmakers who would be

interested in also shooting on the i assess and i will kind of share my experience and do's and don'ts and guess, i guess they would. the 2nd one second set of filmmaker, when it would be much easier for them than you've laid the past. well, because i kind of, i didn't know what to expect cause in many ways. and now i can talk to filmmakers in the filmmaking 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 perspective onto itself. that is hard to even come up with being on earth like the white also for chris hartfield. our canadian asked me he said, i think the hardest thing for them is going to be lighting wells in real time. it wasn't really the hardest. it was just the fact that we had to wait for it.

sometimes it's just once every 40 minutes, it changes into being the organ, then it changes back to be light again. but. but those transitions are really magical one because it doesn't. it's not just like the sunset and some and so so something it's hard to come up with. the sun starts to changing into like a rainbow lights, and some seem like we had a scene where you is sitting in front of the illuminate or we're just talking with earth. sun starts to change in the 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, it would have, would not have been able to create that, come up with that. the idea of all of the challenge and 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 or what that you adapted for

this opportunity. no, actually, or when i go to proposition of making directing a film in space and 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 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 liked it in the old, all the 3 companies the, the accepted right away. so i don't know how to answer, maybe i and 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 by can or how much time passed to little more than a year,

year in one month. i think for a long time, did you find that you got the help of ross cosmos as well? well, that was one of the producers. exactly. did you find that they really helped and invested in time america with all their help and investments and would be impossible. of course. yeah. 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 assess. so 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 are really busy with filming, with other stuff. so they did everything i guess they possibly could, they will. so we, i mean we focused a lot of course on you and you 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? yeah, they were, they were well, my daughter was kind of nervous a little bit and she was crying at the launch. my smile, the son was very confident. he, at least he looked like that he never expressed any fear for me. and my youngest son is just too young to, to kind of realize what's going on. do you have any connection when you way i call them? i called them when we had a cello video connection, the one time i really had no time for many phone calls. there really is. you probably have noticed i was 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 last 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 in that short period of time, when so much work to do, i really didn't have time to miss was to take off all that was launch order was more like you know, it was more like a, like a, a ride, like a roller coaster ride. amazing rollercoaster ride the descent, the, the launch which was not as bad as people think we experienced only 2 and a half. geez, i think the g for did you for the g force only that it was what i think it was 2 and a half only. so it wasn't that at all. the lending was thinking of for maybe 4 and a half, but we were trained for aid so. so it wasn't bad at all. no, the other though the landing was when the parachute opener 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 her american

astronauts shane and shane said that he did it twice and it was like a wild ride. it was a well, right. what i thought it would be like 10 times wilder. so yeah, it's square, ryan and. and then when you came to she said obviously it's not just about preparing for being that. so said when you come back and you with an take and i think star city want you to acclimatize. yeah, we adapt to live. there were 3 or 4 days of that. was it difficult when the nose foster? well, when you take out of that gum, were there were because your head had to adjust to the dear scope in your head, didn't realize again where the floor in or is the ceiling. and so it took me through to her to 3 days for that. ah, to kind of start walking confidently. he looked pretty relaxed though when you land lease in the face, as that was something quite cinematic about it. in fact,

the unit was sitting up with her sunglasses on. you was sitting, i think with your legs crossed, you both just looked like, oh yeah, we just come back from a ride. was there a huge sense of relief when you got down that everything had been done safely that you'd gone off? you've done what you set out to do. oh yeah. you i oh yeah, there was a good, well, like, after you do some something being hard and you feel satisfaction that you've done that you went through it and then that you, you feel i felt 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. and i had the feeling of satisfaction of the fact that you completed the huge task for you as a director, obviously, earth is really boring. you've already been up space, so i mean been that dom that. so what's next?

i mean, there's nothing left but what malls the moon? well, no, 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 us a film on earth 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 way that he 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 of the got a while to, well, you know what you are doing up for 12. well, do you feel that it's a test of the greatest power we would write? 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 faster then. then finally i'm going to ask you as if they said you want to go again, would you go again? yeah, the mit, not this week, but maybe next thursday. i can do that wrong. my week i'll, i'll just a climb wise to gravity. i am some other some things i have to finish before i go back again. okay, well thank you so much as the to month. you cannot wait to see this fall nicely. i too much. oh

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