"I started to look at my parents differently."
At the premiere of the film "My Dog is an Astronaut," actor Kirill Zaitsev appeared with his wife and seven-year-old son Igor. On the red carpet, the artist did not hide that the theme of family is currently one of the most important for him.
Speaking about the changes after the birth of his child, Zaitsev admitted that this experience completely transformed his perception of life. "My wife completely changed my life. She gave birth to my son. It changes everything completely," the actor noted.
The main realization, according to him, came during the process of fatherhood. "I started to look at my parents differently. I understood what they had to go through with me. Before that, you always think: there are the ancestors... But when you become a father, you think: wow, they tolerated me like this. They didn’t sleep at night with me, they put up with me, and they went through all of this," Zaitsev shared.
The actor added that the theme of relationships between parents and children is also reflected in the film itself. "By the way, our film is about this too. It addresses teenage issues," he emphasized.
He was born on August 16, 1987, in Volgograd. From an early age, he was interested in music, dancing, and playing basketball.
In 2005, after graduating from school, he moved to St. Petersburg and enrolled in the State Marine Academy named after Admiral S. O. Makarov, in the navigation faculty. During his studies, he traveled around Europe and studied in the USA.
In 2011, he graduated from the academy and moved to Riga. Seeing an announcement that Igor Konyayev and Elena Chornaya were recruiting an acting course at the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre, he decided to try his hand at acting and was subsequently accepted into the theater troupe. Among his theatrical works are performances such as "The Forest," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "King Lear," "Princess Mary," where he played Grigory Pechorin, and others. In 2014, he graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture.
In 2016, he starred in one of the leading roles in the Russian film "Going Vertical," playing the legendary Soviet basketball player Sergey Belov, on whose book the film was based. In 2018, he played the lead role — an American named John McKenzie, who came to the Investigative Committee of Russia for experience exchange — in the TV series "Cop."
Since 2018, he has been collaborating with the Moscow Provincial Theatre as a guest actor. He plays Nicholas I in the production by Sergey Bezrukov "Pushkin" and Erast Fandorin in the production "The Adventures of Fandorin." In 2021, Zaitsev premiered his solo performance "My Lermontov" directed by Elena Chornaya. The script of the performance is based on the poems, prose, and letters of Mikhail Lermontov. In 2020, Zaitsev shot his debut short film — "Sashka. Soldier's Diary." The film won awards at Russian and international festivals. In 2021, he participated in the TV show "Ice Age" on Channel One. His partner was figure skater Oksana Domnina. The pair reached the finals and took third place.
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