Olga Kurylenko on the cover of Vogue Ukraine July 2013

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Publication: Vogue Ukraine

Issue: July 2013

Model: Olga Kurylenko

Photography: Phil Poynter

Styling: Anders Sølvsten Thomsen

Hair: Lyndell Mansfield

Make-up: Andrew Gallimore

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In the movie, this is the year of Olga Kurylenko. In April came the blockbuster "Oblivion", preparing to leave "Deep Empire" in 3D-format, just started the second season of "City of Wonders", and cinephiles from day to day, waiting for the premiere of "By a miracle." The Ukrainian actress at the peak of popularity met Masha Cukanova. 

In the house where the shooting took place, Olga Kurylenko arrives on time. She's in the morning disheveled hair, a very clean person, boots Laurence Dacade on stable heels, simple black trousers and Zara in tight leather jacket Jitrois - but this relaxed-grungy girl looks spectacular any lady in red evening dress. Thanks regal posture and head held high Olga seems well above their 175 centimeters, children's lips and cheeks - even more touching than the screen, and the most surprising - is what this sex symbol really thin, much thinner than many models. In a society of such a woman is the most natural reaction - lose courage, but Kurylenko does not stand a chance. She smiles, holds out his hand vigorously and c slight accent said, "I - Olga." 

Moreover, she is continually embarrassed - they had not talked in Russian and English resort to structures, that answers my questions are not so easy to understand how she would like, she had nothing to talk about Ukrainian Vogue fashion-community because with him, she did not become friends, even in her youth model. First, these reproaches itself can be taken as flirting - so many girls begging for compliments. But after an hour, listening to her stories, I realize that it is not talking coquetry, and perfectionism. 

Without the slightest show-off, she says with a smile, like talking out loud with imaginary friends, and myself as a paint brush hair. "I feel sorry for the time colorist. In America, I buy a special semi-organic dye. I have three favorite color, and I mix them in the mood. A couple of times tried to be painted at home, and everything is so praised my hair, I decided not to change anything. " The validity of her words, I am convinced, as soon as a stylist Olga sits on laying - first of all Lindell Mansfield praises her tone. Still, it's an amazing knack for women touting the means to care for your hair. And shocking as for the pretty actress, frankness. 

The cover of Olga Kurylenko we shoot in London, where her house. She is a French national, began his career in Paris, where she lived for a long time and, in principle, until recently, was considered a French actress - because, after all, and moved to London. It was important to her, being a European, to escape from the reservation of French cinema, to recall its existence, more film. "Here, the Anglo-Saxon world, the British are in contact with America.Hollywood studios have in mind all the London cast. But they will never look the Frenchwoman - they do not even hope that those in English are able to speak. In Paris, I was cut off from the American cinema. " 

Meanwhile, the main role in the movie "the miracle" that goes to the Ukrainian rolled June 27, Olga was chosen just as a French actress: director Terrence Malick had to confront the emotional and cold Caucasian American. The only Ukrainian of "little French girls," she won the samples. However, after she went around a dozen yuzhnoamerikanok in the casting for the role of the Bolivian intelligence agent Camille from "Quantum of Solace" and became famous throughout the world, in her acting flexibility, nobody doubts. "I probably will not be able to play only American woman from the southern states - says Kurylenko and then corrects herself: - So I can, of course, but have long to work out an accent. The rest - no problem. "

Now filmmakers indulge Olga and allow it to be myself. As a rule, they are making small changes to the script, through which her characters acquire Russian roots - and it looks completely natural on the screen. Russian name - the finishing touch, soothing director and a perfectionist. For example, the main character of "Oblivion" was Julia Rusakovoj after director Joseph Kosinski was determined with the actress. A heroine of "the miracle" after the casting was Marina. 

However, the art-house "By miracle" nationality Olga Kurylenko unexpectedly sense-element. Terrence Malick planned series of impressionistic sketches of how people are struggling to love came from the outside and inside of the mortgaged loneliness. Malik - a kind of director. The text of the role he gave them to Ben Affleck and Javier Bardem at the last moment, in the morning before shooting. Often it was just a stream of thoughts and Kurylenko had to play them - a gesture, gaze movement. Olga explaining what he is seeking, Malik sent her to read Russian classics: "Idiot", "The Brothers Karamazov" and "Anna Karenina." 

"He wanted me to have Slavic soul. He said that the characters are Russian books - this is an unprecedented combination of romantic, sensitive nature on the one hand and extreme arrogance - on the other. " They removed a lot of violent hysterical outbreaks, but in the installation Malik almost all of them thrown out, leaving only the light, melancholy and sad scene. And it happened that Kurylenko played not Nastasia, and Anna Karenina: throw your country and your child for a loved one and eventually became quite miserable. The film touches on the Marina kareninskie read correctly. It turned out, Olga Malik inspired by Russian reading of the story and, in the end, played one of the most complex female characters. "Olga is wonderful, and I enjoyed working with her," - says her co-star Ben Affleck. 

She loves to act in art house, even for very little pay him and he rarely goes into wide release. So far, her favorite role - debut - Iris from "Fingers of Love." There she played an assistant secret laboratory, where a suspicious scientist embalming human memories, and then herself. Another favorite work - the role of the young widow Anna Franco-Ukrainian "Land of Oblivion" on the accident at the Chernobyl power plant.

"So I chose the script, he must surpass everything else. For whatever reasons, it has to be the best - and a lot of criteria. " A complex transformation, a potentially successful project or just close to it personally role. She's interested in everything new, something she has not tried. Last year, Olga began to appear in the TV series "City of Wonders.""Normal movie lasts two hours, shooting - from three to five months. One episode is an hour and it is removed in nine days. We are preparing the five scenes a day, the rate of crazy. But it is - the best training, because they have to be properly trained, instantly think, shoot everything on the first try. No time to wallow. " 

The next big release with Kurylenko - Chinese 3D-project "Deep Empire", where she will be a mermaid. This movie was for her double test. First, all the artists, but her saying in Chinese, and she played in the linguistic vacuum. And it was her first shooting rire. Earlier lucky - she has always been the real scenery. Even in the fantastic "Oblivion" was all real. Decorators have built an entire space station and included a real projection on the ceiling of the sky: it is pre-filmed in Hawaii near the volcano.

"Oblivion" brought Olga completely different complexity - numerous presentations and go out in the promotional campaign. Kurylenko does not like to dress up, and avoids the high life itself chooses to friends far away from the screen of people. She loves to be at home in your spare time, prefers books about psychology and films of David Lynch and Michael Haneke. 

However, free time Olga leaves himself a little bit. "I need to grow strongly. In this career I feel like a child. I was a late start, and in the movie I'm still new. Here comes a fresh face - look, and he has a filmography of over 20 works. It so happened that I became known in the third film. So I still start a career. " Every day she reads the script - and all the more because the authors are beginning to write the role for itself Olga. 

She dreams of comedic roles - about what it was not. And ready to seek his main roles: she realizes that beauty with a gun and a sufferer of arthouse - too controversial images. Kurylenko has achieved undoubted success as a sex symbol: was the face of Victoria's Secret lingerie and a Bond girl - but intends to make a name as a great actress academic, not-girl beauty. "Do I look like Marilyn Monroe, but I feel Meryl Streep. My brain does not match my appearance. I am drawn to the roles to which the girl with my data should not pull. If I were smarter, I would have exploited their sexuality and would now be at the top, but I do it on purpose to break. Do not want to be a cliche. " 

Her body as if she plays along. From exciting forms that viewers have seen in "Seven psychopaths", "Expat" and "Paris, I Love You", now almost nothing left. At our photo shoot all the podium dress her unconditionally great. Ideal sits only the narrowest - Valentino Couture. Kurylenko laughs: "We had to get away from the models to lose weight to couture size." During a break in the shooting, I see that she eats with gusto, and while trying to eat right, did not even vegetarian, her favorite food - frozen dumplings, home she cooks soup. And while still losing weight - it should be because look psychosomatic reactions in women who deeply tired of being a sex symbol. Even wish: good sex symbol - is as rare as a good actress. And the beauty inspires Kurylenko: in the British TV series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," for example, a lover of role-playing games asks the heroine wear a wig and portraying a Bond girl named Olga. 

But Kurylenko sure can do more. Even as a child she was engaged in the academic game. Not because it was such a serious child - just in the Soviet Berdyansk, it was the only decent option. She was born in 1979, when the quality of film, television or theater in the provinces there was no question - and in junior asked to go to drama club. "We put on plays by Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Pushkin and evening staged Shakespeare. The teacher scolded me that my grandmother look "Slave Izaura" - and I obeyed, no longer looking. She brought my taste. " Ina Kaminska, a teacher of drama circle SOOSH number 16 Berdyansk, believes that all the achievements of Olga - including through the school theater: "She was a talented child and a child showing promise as an actress. I put her voice and stage speech, taught right on the stage. " Kurylenko and now happily played in the scene, but the agent tells her to seize the moment and act in big films, and the luxury of playing in the theater you can afford, when all the cinematic peaks will be taken.

However, small deviations from the movie Kurylenko currently allow. Recently, she began to write songs. Her friend, the French dance producer Mirve Ahmadzai, who recorded five albums with Madonna, Olga asked for help. He prepared a program for cabaret Crazy Horse, and he needed a song in Russian. He gave Kurylenko some sketches, it is completely overhauled. Mirve liked Olga words translated into English and French - and he again ordered her a song. "Most of all I like the fact that in this work there is a hidden meaning. The first time, it seems that the song is about sex. And in fact, it's about how we are brainwashed and we become herd. And if you know about the second sense, it sounds quite different. "

Ordered Olga sang the song itself, and it will be released in the next album Mirve. In the meantime, you can listen to the voice Kurylenko in the movie: in his favorite "by the finger of love," she sings, "nich yak mіsyachna", and "the miracle" - "There will come a gray top." 

"It's like I do not give myself to do something that I belong to the soul. As a child I loved to write poetry and music, and is now engaged in a completely different, but I think I came into this world then it is to write. When Mirve said: "Olga, I need a song" - for me it was a job. I sat down, dashed off a few pages and thought, that's mine. But I am a soldier, I need instructions. Otherwise, I do not allow myself to waste time that could be devoted to work. " 

Work for Kurylenko more important than just a hobby, but also his personal life. She was married twice and both marriages ended. She is now dating actor and director Danny Huston ("Hitchcock", "Wrath of the Titans"), and do not plan to change. "For some reason I work in the first place. I fear lack of independence. When depends on someone, there are limits. And I do not want it, well, at least, let it be my own framework. So I'm working. My guy says let's you'll housewife. And I told him - and who earn the money will be? I want to be sure that she will be able to support themselves until the end of his days. Suddenly, the relationship will end? I need to know that she can take care of themselves. " Although family relationships Olga does not seek, still thinking about the children. She likes the European approach to education that teaches children tolerance, mutual respect and openness. 

She plans to pursue a career, to live and raise a family in Europe, but is not shy Ukrainian roots, as her colleague Mila Kunis. And when I ask if she feels herself a national treasure, do not hesitate replied: "Yes. I can see how the Ukrainians support me, and for me it's very important. "
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