The popular Russian television series The Newlyweds, a joint project of GoodStoryMedia and Lean-M, and an adaptation of the American sitcom King of Queens, was released in 2011 and quickly won the love of the audience. What is it about in the series "Newlyweds"?
Plot description
Lera and Lesha Horokhordins have been married for a year now, live in Khimki near Moscow and are in no hurry to have children, wanting to live for their own pleasure. Lesha works as a courier driver for one company, and Lera works as a secretary in a law firm. The spouses are constantly figuring out who is the head of the family, which, however, does not prevent them from adoring each other and enjoying family life in their cozy nest.
However, the idyll of Lesha and Lera is suddenly interrupted in the most unexpected way - Andrei Petrovich, Lera's father, accidentally burns down his own house and moves to live with his son-in-law and daughter. Sixty-year-old Andrei Petrovich is distinguished by an unbearable character, he loves to interfere in the affairs of the spouses, teaches them life and in every possible way infuriates Leroux and Alexei with his antics.
Oscar Kuchera, Lyubov Tikhomirova and the famous comedian Ilya Oleinikov played the main roles in the series "Newlyweds".
In addition to the new tenant, the newlyweds get Marina and Ruslan - a married couple, mired in loans and caring for a child, and in addition to them are two school friends of Lesha, who hang out with Lera and Lesha at a party all their free time, driving them crazy with their difference characters.
Filming the series
The first season began airing on November 21, 2011, ending on December 22. In total, twenty episodes were shown to viewers. The show of the second season (March 19, 2012 - April 19, 2012) also consisted of twenty episodes. During the filming, the performers of the main roles repeatedly had to go to the tricks and break themselves - for example, according to the script Lera Horokhordin had to return to an abandoned bad habit - smoking. But since Lyubov Tikhomirova does not smoke, the film crew had to use a “dummy smoker”.
The trick was that off-screen a man was standing next to the actress, blowing out cigarette smoke in front of her face.
For the filming of another episode, the presence of a dog in the house of a friend of the Horokhordins was required. However, as it turned out, the performer of the role of this very friend in life is terribly afraid of even the smallest dogs, so there were some difficulties with the filming. To the actor's credit, he was able to overcome his phobia and even take his screen animal in his arms - although before he could not have done this even at gunpoint. Thus, the series "Newlyweds", in addition to the pleasure of the audience, brought real benefits to at least one person.
