Producer Iosif Prigozhin stood up for People’s Artist of Russia Leah Akhedzhakova, who was fired from the Sovremennik Theater. Comments on the site mk.ru He stated that the 84-year-old actor should return to the theater.
“Liya Akhedzhakova may be wrong about something, but it is unfair and ugly to deprive her of her job,” said Prigogine. – A grown woman, an actress who has delighted more than one generation with her presence in sci-fi movies. He has the right not to participate in anything.
Formerly Akhedzhakova saidthat the letters from the audience asking him to be removed from Sovremennik, where he worked for 45 years, were not shown to him. According to the actress, the theater management addressed the complaints of the audience while closing the shows with her participation. But Akhedzhakova did not see the letters herself, and her request to show them was ignored.