Aleksandra Bortich had to gain and lose 20 kg over the course of the making of the film. The authors of the film offered the main role to
Irina Gorbacheva, but she did not want to gain weight. Producer
Ilya Naishuller played a smoked guest at a party - for this, he spent the whole shooting day on the couch with a blurred look and a bong in his hands. Before starting work on the film, director Aleksey Nuzhnyy and screenwriter Nikolay Kulikov lost 28 and 20 kg, respectively. Work on the script went on for two and a half years. During this time, the authors interviewed a large number of girls and women who are concerned about the topic of losing weight, so that everything in the film is as truthful as possible. There were 17 draft scripts in total.
Filming The filming period was divided into two blocks. In the first block - May and June 2017 -
Aleksandra Bortich was shot in full. After that, there was a break when Aleksandra Bortich switched to strict nutrition and trained 7 days a week. For a month and a half she lost weight and filming resumed. Aleksandra Bortich herself performed many tricks in the film: she climbed from the balcony to the
balcony on the eighth floor, jumped from the pier into the water at a temperature of less than 10 degrees, ran out of the burning bath in a burning sheet.
Criticism According to film critic Anton Dolin (
ru), despite the predictable plot, overkill with views of the city to pop music and the not very appropriate role of
Sergey Shnurov, all the "shortcomings are fully paid for by the merits" of the film. == Release ==