a so i have to ask you the 1st thing, is it better up or down here? well, it's very different. there is so there are different atmosphere and circumstances and everything totally different. first of all. busy i mean people are flying up, they're not here. here they're just walking unders 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. and then you can like push yourself a little bit and fly until you stop yourself. is something you cannot experience here on earth. do you think maybe that you loved it so much because it was something you few, but if you'd been there for 6 months, you'd just be at the and please i just want to feel of it. well, yeah, i'm sure that's

a part of it. and if i spend there's 6 months i would missed earth and i wouldn't want to come back as soon as possible. but when i talk to the customer, us up, they're usually their intention is to fly in to spend as much time out there as possible with nice. it's a little different. there are certain certain aspects of life up there that i have to get used to. and i never quite did as you know, washing yourself, eating and going to a toilet that is very uncomfortable there. you know, a person can use to get, can, can get used to anything pretty much. but those are the aspects that, that are the hardest to get used to. 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 hear 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 come to

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 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 was common. it was eighty's. and when i was about 567, i was very common. i'm all russian kids to dream was phase because face me cause when i was world were big heroes back then and people knew their names. unfortunately, they like now did dream one in a huge book and bought space was this stick? so i was looking at 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 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 and 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 to really i did have, i did have a lot of thoughts, bob space and 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 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 wasn't that they knew i was serious. they, they, they kind of knew because for the new b moon, they knew me pretty well. and so i said is going to happen and 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 comes from. huh. your sense of unwilling, 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'd 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 peek into the room and

a to 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 the sky was around the i assess the whole, i says, american section and including the american social 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, oh my god, we are up in the space and here we are here we're here. finally, i mean something. i mean, of course people will train for years, but for us the training was long to say every day after that the realization was getting new for me 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 of if you, when you down here filming on earth, which must seem really boring you now you have stuff like light engine is found. you that you have a whole team that you are pretty much one man bonded with you and you and then over fuel because middleton off and i was helping you thought did that make your life even more difficult or did it actually make it over more sad to find knowing that you had done it from start to finish all by yourself, of course, and did what? she were doing this interview right now. there are 4 guys here. shout out. yeah,

for i was 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, 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 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, 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 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 full notification that hold one pass that the guys are not doing focus here. if we're moving around, that would be a problem with focus as well as i was trying to do is 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 not that big of a hero that i was. i knew that there'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 them for a film. so get made 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 myself,

and say with you to 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 prop is and she kind of was doing. she was like a prop master. so she took that responsibility on to herself. she held that cosmos held to what they were out. while the customers were actors. script was written with the understanding that i couldn't bring other actors there. so i knew that there was would be one actress and the other one would be also in the see in the playing 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 or 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 where i'm walking. i can sort of when you're walking with your, you have an awareness of facial what i'll do, but there because of 4 dimensions. you didn't realize where the ceiling where the of where the wall, because everything can be a ceiling and the wall and the floor. it filming, and 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's is, 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 4th dimension and, and to create and invent a scene in a 0 gravity way. if you do a scene with 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 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 it's just loops that happens. you know, there's no one more take. so that's that space. oh, i ah, if you want something done, right, do it yourself. the acronym d i y, i e, do it yourself has now become the name for unusual nra of online videos. we do,

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this is what happens. dimensions in britain del, at this happens, you watch kaiser report ah, ah, entertainment industry in expanding itself into many other aspects of human life. that's a cross promotion. i mean, because of that, people will realize that char spaces and i assess and space is, can be closer to people who can, it would be easier for them to reach it and they would get more interested in that. and space usually whom people succeed and think about faith. they think that all, well, it's something that 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 person to fly up there. one aspect also that people have talked a little bit is that there is now a movie space race. that, of course tom cruise was also due to go up in the autumn. admit is quite nice that you got that fast. are feeling. i'm very competitive. i police force is to lou. as always nice to be 1st. do you think 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 as a filming office and there's nothing more than anyone can do there. no, no, i think it's just the beginning and i people will look at what i have shot 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 and the i assess and i will kind of share my experience and do's and don'ts. and i guess i guess they would. the 2nd one second sort 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 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 a perspective onto itself. that is hard to even come up with being on earth like

the white also for chris hartfield. are canadian us more? 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 it's also 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, it 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 when 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 likes it in the old. all the 3 companies, the, the accepted right away. so i don't know how to answer. maybe i am 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? what they are one of the producers? exactly. did you find that they really helped and invested well in time america and with all their help and investors 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. it's the science object, object of science and you know, cause when i was there doing the working there really busy and i was 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? 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 call them when we had a cello video connection, 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. just takes

a lot of like 5 times longer and i was like, well do i really need to save? maybe i can shoot, start shooting last or lot days. yeah. yeah. so the processes take there longer than on earth. if i was there for a couple of months then i would start missing them and everything, but i have in that short period of time when it's so much work to do, i really didn't have time to miss 1st take off all that it was launch or descent was more like it. no, it was more like a like a ride like a roller coaster ride and easing roller coaster ride. the descent that the, the launch was, was not as bad as her people think. you know, we experienced only 2 and a half. geez, i think that she forced eduphoria that she force only that it was, i think it was 2 and a half only. so it wasn't bad at all. the lending was think above for maybe 4 and a half, but we were trained for age so, so it wasn't bad at all. know that 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 wedding or american astronaut shane. and shane said that he did it twice and it was like a wild ride. it was a while. right. but i thought it would be like 10 times wilder. so yeah, it's quarter i it in. and then when you came she said obviously it's not just about preparing for being bad. so said when you come back and you were then taken, i think star city want you to acclimatize. yeah. we adapt to night. there were 3 or 4 days of that. was that difficult? no faster. well, when you take out of that gum, were there were because your head had to adjust to the dearest cope in your head. didn't realize we get where the floor and where is the ceiling. and so yeah, it took me 2223 days for that ah,

to kind of start walking confidently. you look pretty relaxed though. when you learn to live in the photos, it was something quite cinematic about it. in fact, the unit was sitting that would have 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, but you've gone off and you've done what you set out to do. oh yeah. oh yeah. there was a 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 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. and i had the

feeling of satisfaction of the fact that you completed the huge task. see for you as the director, obviously off is really boring, you've already be in that 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 us, fill 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 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 no earlier than the end of the next year because of the got a while to, well, you know what you doing up there for 12? well, do you feel that it's a test of the greatest tell we drive in and as a person, as a filmmaker totally as a person and of course it, sir, there is going to be life before that in life faster than fine with him. can i ask you as if they sat you on a gun with you got gun. yeah. mit not this week, but maybe next thursday i can do that wrong. my we go, i was just a climb on. i had to grab it. yeah. i have some other, some things i have to finish before i go back again. okay,

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