“It was as if he was looking right through me”: Ivan Kokorin talked about his meeting with Sergey Bodrov a week before his death 09/14/2023, 9:15

Sergei Bodrov Jr. died on September 20, 2002. The director died while filming “The Messenger” in the Karmadon gorge in North Ossetia. A film crew of 124 people was with him on the expedition. After the collapse of the Kolka glacier, Bodrov’s body was still not found.

Ivan collaborated with Sergey on the set of the film “Brother-2”. The forty-four-year-old artist admitted that he was invited to participate in the project, which became fatal for the director. Kokorin and Bodrov met at the casting of the film “Svyaznoy” a week before the tragedy.

“It’s a very strange story with him. The bell rang, they called me to a meeting with Bodrov and I went. It was somewhere at the Belorusskaya metro station. I’m driving and thinking, “Does he remember that little episode or not? Is he inviting me because he remembered, or did the acting assistant happen to take a picture?” He greeted me very well. We easily communicated with him, we talked,” explained Kokořín.

Ivan spoke about the brightest moment of his meeting with Bodrov, which he remembered for the rest of his life. “When a director looks at an actor and calls him for an interview, he constantly thinks about whether the film image he wants to offer the actor is suitable. is it him Do I see him or not? I remembered it for the rest of my life. It was like he was looking right through me. At that moment I understood and thought: “He chooses, he thinks in this moment.” I left, they didn’t tell me anything. And then a week later they all died,” the artist noted.

Actor of the movie “9. company” was very worried that he did not get a role in the film “Svyaznoy” until he learned about the tragedy from the news. Ivan realized that he had miraculously escaped death. “Now we’re talking about, is there such a thing as fate?” The whole country was in shock. I was shocked because I wanted to be in this film, I wanted to work with it and I was upset that I wasn’t taken. But in the end, something happened differently,” Kokorin added on the YouTube program “PROlife” with Julia Yagafarova.

A friend of Bodrog Jr., actor Sergei Fedortsov, is accused of the director’s death. According to him, the “Brother 2” actor chose a dangerous location for shooting on his advice. The director Sergej Balabanov could also have been on the fateful trip.

Sergej Bodrov Jr. recently had a granddaughter. A child named Lyubov was born into the family of his daughter Olga Bodrova and actor Sergey Bystrov.

Olga carefully preserves the memories of her father. The girl admitted that she still has the director’s things. According to Bodrov, he loved sweaters, just like his hero from the cult film Alexei Balabanov “Brother”.

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