Superstitions are an integral part of our life, we can accept them or pretend that we are above all this mysticism, but they exist independently of our will. Perhaps that is why people who consider themselves reasonable, doing logical and rational actions, begin to spit over their left shoulder if a black cat runs across their path.
But there are some professions that have special superstitions. These include astronauts, pilots and actors. The latter have a fear of certain roles or actions of the characters.
For example, many actors believe that playing death on stage or on screen is a bad omen. And if you play the death of a character, you can hasten your own death. It might seem silly, but statistics confirm that fears are justified.
An example of this is Anatoly Papanov, who died immediately after the filming of the film "Cold Summer of 53", in which his character dies at the hands of a bandit. The actor returned home, having finished work on the tape, and he had a heart attack.
Vasily Shukshin played characters who died on the screen many times, including in his most famous film "Kalina Krasnaya". He died when he was only 43 years old. Also on the black list were Leonid Bykov and Viktor Tsoi, they also died, having played death on the screen.
There are also a number of roles that actors try to avoid, as they believe that it can harm health or even take life. Sometimes these are very interesting and challenging roles.
These include the role of Don Guan in Pushkin's Little Tragedies. It is believed that it was because of this role that Vladimir Vysotsky died. It is also not recommended to play Ivan the Terrible. Having performed this role, Evgeny Evstigneev, Nikolai Khmelev, Alexander Mikhailov, Igor Talkov, Oleg Borisov died. Nikolai Cherkasov, playing Ivan the Terrible, suffered in a monstrous accident. Sergei Eisenstein, who made a film about this tsar, died of a heart attack.
Evstigneev played Ivan the Terrible in the film "Ermak". Over the next five years after filming the film, eighteen people from the film's crew died. Ophelia's role is not considered the best either. The actresses who played her for the most part lived a hard life and were sick a lot.
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Not the best choice would be to play vampires or demonic personalities. Anna Dubrovskaya, who played the vampire Larissa in the film "Night Watch", suffered from conjunctivitis for a long time after filming. She had to wear contact lenses and apply painful and complex makeup.
Nikolai Olyalin, who played the role of the inquisitor in "Patrols", felt pain while working on films, but was sure that it was gastritis. Later it became clear that the pain was triggered by heart disease. In 2009, the actor died of a heart attack.
Shakespeare's Macbeth is surrounded by many superstitions. In theaters, it is not recommended to pronounce the title of this play and sing songs from it. It is believed that Shakespeare wrote the spells of real witches from the book "Demonology" of King James I into the text and the ancient evil magic is still in effect.
Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita is also considered damned. Many times different directors tried to make a film based on this work, but each time strange events occurred that prevented it. The scenery caught fire and broke, actors and crew members died, many other things happened that made shooting impossible.
In 1994, the novel was filmed by Yuri Kara, but even here the curse, disguised as conflicts with the producers, did not allow the film to appear on the screen for seventeen years. Only in the twenty-first century, it retreated slightly and allowed viewers to see a television series directed by Vladimir Bortko.
The most dangerous sign is considered to be removed in a coffin. Natalya Varley, starring in the film Viy, where she played a witch and was lying in a coffin, began to feel bad after working on the project. On the set itself, the actress almost died. According to her confession, all troubles stopped only after she turned to the church for help.
GUSAKOVA IRINA