SALON: Do you like to receive gifts?

- I am a Lion, and Lions always like giving more. Although in general, this is a character trait I have, it is more pleasant for me to see how a person rejoices when receiving a gift. Emotional return is much stronger because you do something good for someone. In such a situation, it does not even matter how much money you spent to make someone pleasant.

S: Which of the gifts was the most desirable for you? Was this?

- Two children! Well, if we talk about material gifts, then, probably, travel. The most memorable is the New Year in Venice. In Europe, then just introduced the euro. If not mistaken, it was 2003. On New Year's Eve, we took out new money from the ATM - the euro.

S: And as a child dreamed of some kind of gift?

- No, it was not. And then, as a child, I always did gifts with my own hands. Then it was impossible to buy what I wanted. Not like now, when you see all this luxury in the store, especially before the holidays ... And then there was no opportunity, no dream.

S: Any gift from the first big fee you made?

- I brought my grandmother and grandfather a huge bag of groceries! It was 1991, when it was very hard for everyone to live. I was paid for shooting 30,000 rubles. At that time it was a lot of money! Nevertheless, they were only enough to buy a jacket and boots for themselves, and to the grandparents, roughly speaking, a bag of meat.

S: And the most original gift you can remember?

- Perhaps, the poem that I wrote to my husband, but he did not expect it at all. And to me ... When cars are given is no longer original ... It's hard to even remember. In our family there is no such established tradition - gifts on holidays. We have gifts do not happen on dates. We just leave the house, go to the store, and the husband tells me to measure something nice, and if we like it, we buy. It’s not a surprise under the Christmas tree or a gift on any particular day. We have all this somehow happening differently.

S: Brand or price matter to you when choosing a gift?

- Brand doesn't matter. Although, of course, it is difficult to expect that someone unknown and cheap will do something that would very much surprise and delight. All have long understood that where it is expensive, there is high quality.

S: What do you usually buy for the holidays?

- If we talk about New Year's Eve - Christmas holidays, then I buy French or Italian things, some goodies or good vinegar, or olive oil, bake the cookies themselves, put them in bags and tie them with a ribbon. As for February 23 and March 8, we especially do not celebrate them.

S: Was there a gift that changed your life?

- I would say that meeting someone is a gift from God, and, of course, meeting changes our life very much. When we met with Andrei Konchalovsky, my life did not change by 180 or even 360 degrees, no, it just went into another dimension. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, the moment when my husband gave me a car. I had to learn how to drive it, and because of this I feel very free. And now he gave me a car with a manual gearbox, which I still can't drive, since the first car was with an automatic gearbox.

S: What kind of car, if not a secret?

“The last one is the Mini from BMW, it’s red, fast, fun, sporty ... Salivation flow, so before the summer, I think, I will learn to drive it.” Must have to learn! Is there any dream left? What do you want to get as a gift? Journey! I would very much like to be asked: where do you want to go? And I would answer: we are going there!

S: And where do you want to go?

- To Thailand!