For several days in a row, Martina Vachkova watches as one of the actors ends the filming of “Stolen Life” forever and is still in tears. I will refrain and will not cry, the actress tells herself firmly. He also thinks in advance what he will say to his colleagues when he shoots his final scene. And in it, Martina, just like her heroine sister Zhekova – emotionally painful, does not stop crying. “Okay, cry now that there are no tears in the final words,” the talented actress tells herself. Well, yes, but no. She begins her speech, her voice trembling, and tears keep flowing from her eyes. “God, I am a dam of tears, where do I get them from! “I received so much love, warmth and joy during the filming that there was no way our emotional separation could not be emotional,” the actress told 24 Chasa.
Her heroine in the series – the head nurse at the hospital Magda Zhekova, is from its very beginning and is a connecting element between all the stories in it. Through her, Vachkova experiences the fate of another woman, in many ways close to herself, and in others – quite different. “I don’t have the character traits that a boss needs. Nurse Zhekova is actually the second most important person in a hospital. She is like an administrative director. ” Completing and keeping documentation is very far from Martina, so in addition to the heroine, she also acquires such skills. But temperament and emotionality are what unite them the most – Sister Zhekova as Vachkova is very empathetic, she sympathizes with everyone. He gets into all kinds of stories because he wants to help, to give advice – a habit that is inherent in Martha herself. “She is also cute, some viewers call her a gossip. But everything she does is for the good of the hospital and the team. I love her very much, I sympathize with her, and hence with all the women who have Sister Zhekova’s problems. ”
Because for the 11 seasons her heroine really experienced big problems – like loneliness, like the difficulty of adopting a child, being lied to by the man she loves, being robbed by the same person and still being able to forgive.
For her long career, Martina has played hundreds of heroines and loves each one. But Zhekova’s role in “Stolen Life” certainly remains emblematic of her. This is largely due to the great love that viewers feel for her. Martina feels it often – strangers write to her on social networks to tell her how much they like her character, and sometimes they stop her like that as she walks down the street. And if she has to go to a real hospital or clinic, nurses turn to her with “colleague, colleague.” Most often, friends doctors invite her to become a nurse in their hospital to tighten her, as does her heroine in “St. Anastasia”. “They write such kind words to me on Facebook and Instagram. I receive such love and support, for which I am very grateful. “
Vachkova still keeps the acrostic in a nice place, which a viewer sent her in a letter last February. It is a poem of 14 verses, and each new line begins with the next letter on behalf of Martina Vachkova. Eng. Aniela Kostova Georgieva sent it to her with the message “With faith in tomorrow a modest gift from me”.
Although she is no longer on the set, she still can’t believe that “Stolen Life” has come to an end. She is still waiting for the team to call her to tell her what time they start work tomorrow. She can’t believe her email is blank – no letters from the show’s office with the script for new episodes. “I had been in such an iron rhythm for years – I read a script, I take out the scenes in which I participate, my lines. I always write my lines by hand, that’s how I studied my lyrics. And now I still can’t realize that a car isn’t coming to pick me up, I’m not learning further lines. It’s weird. I have free time that I don’t know what to do, “says Martina.
Neither she nor any of the team reveals how the Bulgarian series with the most episodes on air will end. “It’s getting more and more dramatic, more and more shocking and with great twists. A very well written script – this is the success of our work. “
Martina is among the six actors in “Stolen Life” from its first episode to the finale. ABOUTthe winners are Yanina Kasheva, who plays Dr. Krasteva, Angelina Slavova – the screen nurse Neneva, Nikola Mutafov – Dr. Penev, Milena Zhivkova – Dr. Romanova, and Emil Markov, who plays Associate Professor Zahariev. “This means that we have left 5 and a half years of our lives in the series. The feeling is that this time has passed very quickly. But viewers who watch the series know how many stories have been told, how many characters have survived. As time goes on, I realize how the hero has become a part of me. You gave him something, just like he gave it to you “, explains the actor Emil Markov.
He has extensive professional experience before appearing on camera for Stolen Life. He plays on the stage, has about 20 participations in foreign productions, and has acted in several Bulgarian films. “But at this pace, volume, highly emotional things that the characters in the series go through, I haven’t worked. It gives great mobilization, organization, discipline and a tough experience. ”
Two film crews work on all seasons of the series, the main scenes they shoot are in the corridors of the hospital, which the production company “Dream Team” builds itself.
“My feelings are a bit mixed. On the one hand, we know that someday the series will end – we will not make a soap for 100 years, on the other hand, you are a little sad that it ends. But still, until it’s over, it won’t start anything else. Whenever one thing is done, it gives space and space to start another “, says Markov.
His hero – Associate Professor Emil Zahariev, has undergone major changes in his personal and professional path. He separated from both his first and second wives. He painfully experienced the death of his first wife. He then became director of the hospital, then resigned and returned to the operating room as one of the proven professionals in obstetrics and gynecology.
The role helps the actor to gain not only significant medical knowledge, but also a clear idea of medical work – with the pros and cons in this complex profession. “I realize what a miracle it is to deal with sick people every day. First, you have to take care of them medically – to cure them, and also to endure their characters, everyone is different! I imagine what a workload it is and what inner strength the doctor must have in order not to fall into disgust, despair, but to continue to work, to take care of other people’s health. ”
Associate Professor Zahariev gives Emil Markov not only a view of medical life and work, but also the opportunity to go through a variety of relationships and situations. “It’s as if I’ve experienced so many things that otherwise could not have happened to me in normal life. This expands the worldview, “says Markov.
There is no way, as in the series from its first episode, viewers do not recognize him. She sees it both in the timid looks and in the smiles of strangers. Sometimes they are afraid to talk to the actor to tell him that he is great, that they like him or how well he plays in the series.
And what will happen to associate professor Zahariev in the final? “Finally, he will no longer have an affinity to take any new actions, connections, ambitions,” says only Markov. But this does not mean that his character will remain unhappy. “Maybe for my man to be alone, it will be his happy ending,” the actor hinted.
A total of 507 episodes, 1,500 filming days, 12 directors, 15 cameramen, 26 screenwriters with over 20,000 screenplay pages created is the balance sheet after the 11 seasons of “Stolen Life”. “It’s a creative process that makes the audience happy, and the numbers are so impressive that we can hardly improve them ourselves. We always start projects that give potential for something new “, the producer Evtim Miloshev explained to Nova TV.
He directed the last days of filming of the series. This is also the time when none of the team is in a hurry to leave – he knows that there is very little magic left, and he does not want to miss a second of it.
So it is with Philip Bukov. “I was sad and I’m still sad,” he said. The young actor enters the series in the 9th season as Dr. Hadzhihristev. “I didn’t want the day I knew would be my last to be photographed in Stolen Life.”
The work in the series gives him valuable professional experience – after all, he entered it while still a student at NATFA.
“You pushed me in the series,” Bukov suggests to his colleague Vlado Penev with a laugh.
“But don’t talk like that, please, I’ll get a bad name,” screen professor Tsonev replied jokingly.
But this is the pure truth. Some time ago, Philip and the other students from the last class of Professor Stefan Danailov were taken for the mass in the then new production of the National Theater “Brothers Karamazov”. Thus, Bukov met all the actors in it, including Vlado Penev. He himself starred in “Stolen Life” from the sixth season and sent these same students from the mass to a casting for the series. Philip is the only one who gets a central role in “Stolen Life” and stays in it until the very end.
His hero – urologist Vladimir Hadzhihristev, is undergoing a serious transformation. If in the beginning he is the bad boy and the villain in the hospital, later he shows that he can do good and love. This provokes different reactions from the viewers. For example, shortly after Hadzhihristev entered St. Anastasia, Filip Bukov shopped in the supermarket and as he was walking in the store, a woman approached him, stopped a meter away from him and said to him: “And what rubbish are you!”. “I don’t have such incidents anymore,” laughs the actor. Viewers look much better at his character after he fell in love with another favorite character – sister Kaya Raykova. “I’m happy, as long as Hadjihristev doesn’t show his horns again,” smiles Bukov.
He does not prepare in advance what he will say when he shoots his final scene. But he thanks everyone individually – for the given chance, for the trust and patience, and for the fact that they teach him everything in the shooting process. The contacts he makes along with “Stolen Life” are the other valuable thing the series gives him.
The plot lines of the finale will be closed, and the characters will get the freedom to live in the minds of viewers as they wish. And the hero of Philip – Hadzhihristev, will reach its happy end, but at the cost of great obstacles.
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