In two days, the two filmed a TV series and an advertisement
The world-famous football player was worried that the great Slavcho Peev would be his butler, albeit a narrow one.
8.25 p.m. Half asleep, Dimitar Rachkov arrives at the stadium in Tsarsko Selo in a T-shirt and shorts, a backpack on his shoulder, and immediately enters the van, designated as a dressing room and wardrobe.
8.40 p.m. Hristo Stoichkov, wearing a black T-shirt from his own brand – H8S, comes out with a white face mask, fresh and with a truncated gait, which outlines his well-maintained body. And he hides in the van.
However, the appearance of the most successful Bulgarian football player is a sign that the work of the 40 people from the team will soon begin. All of them are carefully selected, and one of the mandatory conditions is to have a vaccine certificate or a negative PCR test. Such are the requirements for journalists. Stoichkov and Rachkov have been vaccinated with Pfizer, but the footballer still wears a mask even outdoors because of the coronavirus. He cannot take risks, as he travels constantly between Bulgaria and the USA.
This is the second day (August 18) from the shooting process and the pace is a bit more relaxed than the first one, which started at 7 am.
“We have been working since
7 a.m. to
8 p.m.
in hellish heat ”,
Rachkov will tell a little later, leaving the van already in a stage costume – long light gray pants, a white T-shirt and a black knitted vest. Golfer. Expensive occupation.
Stoichkov’s character is so luxurious – in white pants and a cherry T-shirt.
Months after their last meeting on the set, when they shot another video for Winbet, the two big stars are together because they are again the main characters in a brand new online casino ad. They have only two working days to do it, after which Stoichkov returns to Miami, where he has lived and worked for the American television giant TUDN for 8 years.
However, the short time is not a problem at all, as the legend of Bulgarian football is already almost a professional actor. “We repeat the scenes at most 2-3 times, not 20-30 times. And I learn from Rachkov “, he says.
“Itzo already has a lot of experience in television” – this is how the actor explains why their work is going fast and high quality. And it turns out to be twice as big as the photos for the previous commercials, because this time the team managed to shoot with the two stars an episode of an online reality series, which is broadcast on the site winmybet.bg. It is for this production that the two play golfers.
“However, I can’t reveal the plot of the series, as the advertisement is still a secret. I will just say that we have a lot of fun and we expect the audience to do the same “, says Rachkov.
But it is no secret that for the first time together with the two stars on the screen will rise another popular face – Slavcho Peev, another character from the popular ads of Winbet. He is Stoichkov’s butler in TV sketches so far, but the three have not played together so far.
Stoichkov was very worried at the beginning of the advertising series, when he realized that according to the script, the great actor would be his butler.
The footballer is
felt somehow
awkward, so this
is Slavcho Peev,
until Bat ‘Slavcho, as he calls him, reassured him that he liked the role.
By the way, the two have been friends for more than 30 years, when Hristo was a frequent spectator of productions at the Satirical Theater. At the time when Peev was “retired” from Satire and became a press officer for Lokomotiv (Sofia), he went to Barcelona to talk to Stoichkov about a specific football player. The two meet on the Rambla, the most famous street in the Catalan capital, and walk to Barça’s office.
At this time, the otherwise noisy street seems to fall silent, the crowds of people from all over the world dissolve and surround them like a trellis as they walk. Some of the passers-by reach out to touch Stoichkov with admiration. And Slavcho Peev sees with his own eyes how famous and loved the Bulgarian is.
In the series, which is now being filmed by Stoichkov and Rachkov, Peev is again an English-style butler – 30 degrees, and he is wearing a black suit and white shirt. His character is the comic relief (comic relief, as the term is in English) in the sketch, whose task is to lighten the situation.
There is no doubt that Winbet ads have become so popular that they have even entered the city dictionary because of the big stars in them. “Listen, Uncle Mitko, 20-20 is like 4-4-2,” says Stoichkov in one of them. And in another
Rachkov is almost like
James Bond,
driving furiously
Aston Martin
in the night.
But the idea to shoot them in the funny videos came from the Brigada advertising agency. And not just the idea, but the whole development, script and production.
“Brigada is a boutique, entirely Bulgarian agency, and Winbet had the courage to trust us,” says its owner Emil Zaikov. But the team he hired has also proven his professionalism.
Among the 18 people working at the agency is writer Ilian Lyubomirov, creative director of the online series. He is the husband of the journalist Petya Dikova and the son-in-law of Sasho Dikov and the beautiful Anya Pencheva. The camera crew includes Bedros Halvadjian (son of producer Magardich Halvadjian), filmed some of the most famous TV productions of Nova TV – “The Masked Singer”, “The Forbidden Show of Rachkov” and others. The director is Kiril Kirov-Kiko, who also appears as a host of games between celebrities in the online series.
The premiere of the two star productions will be in September.
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