He wrote to me, ‘Oleg, keep it easy, we will make you free from Zelenskiy and then we will live in a normal friendly country.’ He thinks America is doing all this! That is when we stop our discussion.” Being gay was a criminal offence. “But now I want to shame him because he supports this Russian aggression. “My agent found me the job on Firebird,” he continues.
The war is never far from our conversation. “So now, if someone gives me a gun, I know what to do with it.” He also had to do five days of shooting practice. “I knew only, ‘Hello, I am Oleg from Ukraine, my English very bad,’” recalls the actor.
When Zagorodnii landed the part, it was on the condition that he could master English in the three months before shooting began. Very suggestive hardware … a passionate moment.
