The filming period of 40-episode melodrama “Dr. Baby Dust 3” is now over. Six months of work, 125 filming shifts, over 60 people on film crew and more than 150 actors on the set – and season three is done! The new episodes of the series admired by millions of viewers will be premiered in autumn on Ukraina TV channel. As for events on the set and behind the scenes and things to expect from the new season, you can find out about those right now.
Behind the Scenes
The main action of season three unfolds in an innovational clinic built in one of FILM.UA studio pavilions. Here the set designers have created over 73 locations! These include interior of the clinic with surgery rooms, wards, labs, examination rooms and offices as well as the characters’ apartments. Special equipment and props in the clinic and the rest of the space is something we can be proud of. The same can be said about credibility of everything the audience will see on the screen - during the filming and at the screenwriting stage consulting doctors were involved; they didn’t just control the correctness of actors’ actions on the set but also prepared the necessary materials such as ultrasound videos, etc.
11 silicon bellies for women in different stages of pregnancy and for intestine surgeries were created, as well as 2 silicon dolls of newborn babies (the film crew called them Oscar and Malina (Raspberry)) and two dolls of a greater age. For each filming, the makeup artists prepared artificial blood and mucus, attached a umbilical cord to the dolls for it to be cut on the set later… And though cinema is a kind of magic, you cannot make do without real actors. The tiniest actor Timur had barely turned 10 days and already played his first-ever role.
The hardest shift lasted for 19 hours, and the maximal number of takes per frame was eight. It is practically impossible to count how many gloves, masks, gowns, caps, diapers and other props were used – 20 boxes of gloves and 7 boxes of masks alone!
But there was only one cake, and stunt doubles were called in for filming the scene – our main characters are genteel but still hot-tempered so the fight had to erupt. We won’t tell you who threw the cake and who was its goal but we don’t recommend trying this at home as confectionary cream caused an actor’s allergic reaction.
Guardian Angel of Future Moms
Ilya Noskov will come back to the screens in the role of Roman Shirokov. This time the main character will have to not simply help babies come into this world but also to counter intrigues in a new clinic where his former father-in-law, Professor Klimov, invites him to work. Another person from the past will reappear in Shirokov’s life as well… But will the protagonist be able to correct his mistakes? We’ll learn this during the premiere. For now, here is a comment from Ilya Noskov saying that Roman Shirokov is not really an angel.
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“Doctor Roman Shirokov is undoubtedly good for his patients, but they don’t know what is happening in his private life. He has a reputation of a good man and a professional among the people who don’t see the other side of him. But still, Shirokov allowed his first wife Nina to go for an abortion! How immersed in your work do you have to be not to see a problem of someone that close to you? Probably this is called pride when you are so hooked on your work. And it was interesting for me to portray an image of a person who is soup to the nose in his p’s and q’s that life has played such an evil joke on him.”
The Charming Dr. Evil
Taras Kuzmin was chosen for playing the role of the main plotter and social climber, doctor Oleg Chernov. “It’s not just women that Chernov manipulates; he manipulates people in general. He does this, but not out of spite; he simply has a certain goal and he moves towards it, though not always taking honest and correct steps,” says Taras. “It is always more interesting to play an antagonist, but the main thing is to find positive features in him and make him deeper.” Still, hard character means certain complications and inconveniences. For example, you can catch one on the face… “In one of the episode I am slapped on the face, and when my cheek got hit ten takes in a row, I understood that the actor’s profession is not that simple,” says Taras Kuzmin. “And today my nose was damaged… The antagonist has to pay, that’s true.”
Overcoming Oneself
For Ilya Noskov, delivering childbirths and performing surgeries is already a usual task, but for some of his partners on the set such scenes became a real challenge. “The hardest and the most unpleasant was everything about physiology and medicine! I am awfully afraid of doctors, medicines, instruments, surgeries, and blood – all this terrifies me and causes me to panic. That is why in the beginning I thought I simply won’t survive all that – so realistic it was on the set”, says Kristina Kuzmina who played the role of Tatyana Sedelnikova, head of ob-gyn department. “The only thing that saved me in such moments was a sense of humor. We couldn’t have done without it.”
“I had just one scene in the surgery room, and it was pure horror. I was praying for it to finish as fast as possible. I had to assist Ilya Noskov’s character who has probably delivered five hundred childbirths on this project. Everyone on the set already knew what to do except me, and it was a nightmare,” says Maria Severilova who played the role of Lyuda, an intern. “You had to do everything quickly – cut the umbilical cord, put pressure on it, pass the baby and then pass the instruments, and I was really nervous and slow. I couldn’t get down to work for a long time, to catch the rhythm, and I did everything right only during the fourth take.”
Surgeries, Intrigues, a Detective Line… What About Love?
“This is a special story. In my opinion, the main accent in the new season is put on feelings, because women mostly live through their emotions, not reason. And this is how our series turned out – it is about women who constantly get carried away because of their feelings,” says Kristina Kuzmina.
“Olena Shishkina is a strong self-made woman. However, my character has a workplace affair in stock – she’ll get infatuated with a young doctor,” says Natalia Vasko.“I often get to play strong women. Life shows that I am like that as well, even though I really want to be weaker. Probably if somebody comes up to me and says, ‘Natalka, let it go, don’t think about anything,’ I won’t be able to fully relax, I’ll still be controlling the situation in the back of my head.”
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“My character, just like any person, manifests himself in different ways: he can be a victim, a villain and a hero. My personal association is Pierrot – somebody loving, faithful and sad, not always decisive, giving his Columbine away to some Harlequin – more focused, fun, successful and self-confident,” says Maksim Mikhaylichenko who played the role of Dr Evgeny Sidelnikov.
We congratulate the film crew on successful completion of their marathon and look forward to the premiere of Dr. Baby Dust 3in autumn on Ukraina TV channel.
Directors: Anton Goyda, Aleksandr Parkhomenko, Aleksandr Onufriyev, Andrey Kolesnik
DOPs: Aleksandr Grebennikov, Aleksandr Sedov
Producers: Irina Kostyuk, Anna Eliseeva
Creative producer: Yulia Mischenko
Executive producers: Sergey Demidov, Sergey Morozov
Cast: Ilya Noskov, Kristina Kuzmina, Taras Kuzmin, Valeriy Zaytsev, Maksim Mikhaylichenko, Dmitry Oskin, Evgeny Lebedin, Kristina Yaroshenko, Natalia Vasko
