Alexander Ustyugov with his wife: photo

Moscow wife

Ustyugov was born in 1976 in the Pavlodar region, which belongs to the territory of modern Kazakhstan. His path to cinema was not easy. After studying as an electrician in his hometown, the future actor entered the Shchukin Theater School four times. In between unsuccessful attempts, Alexander even managed to graduate from the College of Culture and Art in Omsk. Finally, in 1999, luck smiled on the persistent young man, and Ustyugov ended up at the Shchukin School on a course with Rodion Ovchinnikov.

While studying, he met his future wife, classmate Yanina Sokolovskaya. When a romantic relationship arose between them, Alexander did not immediately come to terms with their difference in financial situation. Yana was born and raised in Moscow. The girl's family was considered wealthy. And Ustyugov lived in a hostel, without even a regular source of income. Sometimes, after walking Yana home, he would walk back to his apartment for three hours, because the metro did not work, and the poor student could not afford a taxi.

The lovers decided to live together while still studying, and first settled in the apartment of Sokolovskaya’s parents. But after a couple of months, Ustyugov invited the girl to return to the hostel with him, because in someone else’s apartment he felt like a guest, and not the head of their small family. Yana agreed to move and meekly arranged life in the hostel, learned to cook and clean. She was not at all embarrassed by material differences. On the contrary, Sokolovskaya believed that very soon the man she loved would achieve success in his profession and be able to provide for his family himself.

The couple did not move from the hostel of their own free will. They were asked to vacate the room because there were not enough places, and Yana and Alexander actually had separate housing in Moscow. This time, the lovers settled in an apartment that Sokolovskaya inherited from relatives. Ustyugov, like a real man, took upon himself the issues of repairs and home improvement. Remembering his education as an electrician, he even took up electrical wiring himself.

Yana and Alexander got married in August 2005. By that time, the actor had begun filming in “Cop Wars,” and his business was taking off. Therefore, he paid for the wedding himself and even gave his wife a brand new foreign car.

When the couple were already expecting an addition to the family, Ustyugov helped his wife’s stepfather with the renovation of a three-story country house. The young family there was given an entire floor, which they decorated and furnished to their liking. So the couple’s daughter, Zhenya, who was born in 2007, grew up in the fresh air from birth.

The couple worked together at the Youth Theater, where Ustyugov also tried his hand as a director. In the production “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...” he entrusted his wife with the role of Evgenia Komelkova. Together, the married couple also appeared in the TV series “Cop Wars.” When Roman Shilov needed to find his girlfriend, the actor immediately offered his real-life other half for this role. Soon, daughter Zhenya joined her parents in the frame.

Three loves of Alexander Ustyugov: the secrets of the life of the star of “Cop Wars”

Today the actor is famous and looks to the future with confidence. And once upon a time he walked from his bride to his dorm through the entire city. There was no money for a taxi.

The fate of the actor and his hero

Actor Alexander Ustyugov is forty-two years old and today he is one of the most recognizable and sought-after artists in the country. He already has a lot of serious roles under his belt, but “Cop Wars” made his name.

For eleven years, Roma Shilov and his comrades fought against crime, and at the same time against fellow “werewolves,” gaining the love and respect of many thousands of spectators.

The personal screen life of Major (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel) Shilov is also filled with a series of different events, not always joyful and happy. But few know about what stories fate wrote for the main performer of this role in real life.

Actor Ustyugov has already had two marriages. And both are extremely unsuccessful. At the same time, the artist was not at all disappointed in women, did not paint this world in black tones, and still believes in a happy meeting with the one and only, after which he will no longer look back at others.

A native of Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, since childhood, Alexander saw himself as an artist and no one else. True, the path to art turned out to be more than thorny. He stormed the admissions committee of the Shchukin School for four years in a row before he became a student.

Love tested by pasta

It was during the difficult but cheerful student years that he met his future wife. As it turns out later, the first, but not the last. But then everything was sweet and beautiful. Yanina Sokolovskaya was his classmate. True, this is where the parallels between them seemed to end.

He is a poor student from a dormitory, living on bread and water, who is happy with any chance income. She is a representative of the “golden youth”. A family with a good income turned Yanina into a spoiled sissy for whom everything in this life falls from the sky.

She probably thought that everyone else lived like this too. Otherwise, she would have thought to ask her lover Sasha Ustyugov, who accompanied her home at night after a date - how will he get home? But such a thing never occurred to her.

Why, the girl didn’t even know that while she was sleeping soundly in her room, Alexander was walking halfway across the city to his dorm to take a nap for a couple of hours before the start of classes. His pockets were empty, so a taxi was not an option. And public transport no longer ran at night.

When they decided to live together, Yanina insisted that her lover move into her apartment. Or rather, to her family’s apartment on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. However, the proud Ustyugov could not exist for long in this house in the role of a poor relative, whom everyone teaches about life.

And he decided to move back to the dorm. Yes, not alone - but with a sissy wife. And at the same time, check her feelings towards you. What will it be like to live without special conditions and amenities for a white-haired woman who, according to the actor’s recollections, did not know what a frying pan looked like or which side to approach the gas stove from?

Interestingly, Yanina willingly went with him to the dorm room and quickly got used to the new realities of the “noisy anthill”. And I even learned to cook to the envy of others.

This is how their love passed a good test. And then fate decided to thank the couple. Ustyugov’s career took off, he began to act a lot, earn good money, and the college pasta for breakfast, lunch and dinner began to be slowly forgotten. The couple even began to build their own cottage outside the city.

From registry office to registry office

Their family idyll lasted almost 10 years. During this time, a daughter, Evgenia, was born. And then somehow everything suddenly broke. At first, for Alexander it was just an affair on the side. It seems like there are no obligations. The object of his admiration was Anna Azar, the daughter of a big businessman, with whom he accidentally crossed paths on the set of Viking.

However, a non-binding affair led to a serious relationship, and one day the secret became clear. The actor’s marriage collapsed; his wife chose not to be a third wheel and agreed to a divorce.

Ustyugov married Anna almost as soon as he became free from his previous obligations. For the sake of new love, a native of Ekibastuz, who had long ago become a Muscovite, agreed to move to St. Petersburg.

However, this relationship managed to “die” even faster than the previous one. The couple lived together for only a couple of years, after which they fled, wanting to forget everything they had in common. Rumor has it that they even deleted all their photos together from their pages on social networks. It was as if there was nothing between them.

Rainbow in hair

However, fate very quickly brought Ustyugov together with another extraordinary woman. Her name is Maria Prokhorova, who is easily recognized by her hair dyed in bright rainbow colors. The two met in the northern capital, where the actor settled firmly. And, apparently, forever.

Alexander and Maria spend all their free time together. And sometimes even unfree. A bright girl, both externally and internally, not long ago became the director-administrator of the Ekibastuz group, in which Alexander Ustyugov devotes his soul, sometimes allowing himself to be in the role of a musician.

Whether “Roma Shilov” will walk down the aisle once again, time will tell. The main thing is to stop someday. In the sense that the next beloved turns out to be the same one who is alone for life. But this is what a person believes. And, as always, the Lord God disposes.

Roman Shilov’s personal life in “Cop Wars” was not always simple. And in Alexander Ustyugov’s life everything is exactly the same. It is not clear who possessed whom – the “cop” in the artist, or the artist in the “cop”...

Rich heiress

Alexander did not often come to the attention of the press, so his unexpected divorce from Yanina Sokolovskaya went unnoticed. The couple separated in 2015, and Ustyugov moved to live in St. Petersburg. Almost immediately, information appeared that the cause of the collapse of the actor’s first marriage was a new love.

According to rumors, Alexander met his future second wife on the set of the historical film “Viking”, where he had one of the main roles. The mysterious chosen one of the movie star turned out to be Anna Ozar. The girl graduated from the directing department of VGIK, but could not yet boast of notable projects in cinema or television. Anna was much better known as the daughter of Igor Ozar, the head.

She was born in 1987. She studied in Moscow and the UK, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. She worked for the publications Izvestia, The Moscow News and on the Rossiya TV channel. Anna's daughter Kira is growing up, but she does not advertise the name of the child's father.

The wedding of Ustyugov and Ozar took place in September 2015. The lovers did not arrange lavish celebrations, but preferred to get married at the registry office without unnecessary witnesses. The newlyweds announced the joyful event via Instagram. On their accounts they published photographs of hands with wedding rings without any comments. Anna and Alexander spent their honeymoon traveling around Europe.

Before fans had time to rejoice for their favorite actor, at the end of 2021 the couple deleted joint photos from their personal pages on social networks. Anna, who became Ustyugova after her marriage, returned her maiden name and removed Alexander from her list of friends. The actor, in turn, indicated “single” in the “marital status” column, and in recent photographs he began to appear without a wedding ring. Without further ado, it became clear that the couple’s life paths had diverged.

New life

The actor does not comment on his marriages and divorces in interviews. For some time there were rumors about his reunion with his first family, but Alexander denied them. They maintained a normal relationship with Yanina Sokolovskaya, continue to act together in “Cop Wars” and raise their common daughter. According to the girl’s mother, Zhenya is growing up like her father, she dances, sings, and plays on the RAMT stage.

With daughter Zhenya

In addition to his acting career, Ustyugov is seriously interested in music. He has his own group “Ekibastuz”, named after Alexander’s hometown. In 2021, he came with his musical group to the rock festival “Invasion”. Then the journalists managed to find out that Ustyugov’s heart was taken again. He meets with Maria Prokhorova, who works as the director of the Ekibastuz group. True, the actor and singer are in no hurry to advertise their new relationship.

Ustyugov met his new beloved in the St. Petersburg bar “Barslona”, where Maria worked at that time. She and Alexander are the same age, but Prokhorova is no stranger to an easy and relaxed approach to life. She wears original haircuts, dyes her hair bright colors and ironically calls herself Toad Squirrel. Friends describe Prokhorova as a positive, sociable, and energetic person. With such a companion, in their opinion, Alexander will never be bored.

Almost two years have passed since the “Invasion” festival, where the actor gave reason to talk about his new novel. Journalists do not know what is happening in Ustyugov’s personal life now. He tries not to make any guesses about his third marriage, entrusting his future fate into the hands of higher powers, which, perhaps, will still send him a real and bright feeling.

Alexander Ustyugov: “I wouldn’t want to live with an actress a second time”

Alexander Ustyugov is by all accounts the same hero! And courageous, and handsome, and talented. Moreover, he is talented in everything - he is an actor, director, musician, restaurateur and owner of a restoration workshop. He is an ascetic and a real romantic - he dreams of opening a museum of Russian wooden toys and he turns and paints them himself. Our hero is not afraid to start from scratch, changing professions, places of residence, and does not know how to live as a family when love leaves. About all this in an interview with Atmosfera magazine.

— Sasha, you have an insane amount of classes, not even taking theater and cinema into account. I don't know where to find time for all this. Besides, they say that those who hit the same target achieve more, you are, first of all, an actor... - I don’t consider myself a great talent, especially when I see my colleagues who are simply kissed by God. I consider myself an intellectual artist, I understand what a profession is, I studied for a long time and worked towards it, I know how to do it and whether I can or cannot. When I was just entering the stage, one artist told me: “Acting should not be the main thing in your life. If you don’t have something more important, you have to invent it, because otherwise your profession will devour you.” Therefore, having arrived at the theater, I soon said: “Guys, let you pay me a nominal salary of five thousand rubles (officially it was either forty-two or forty-six thousand rubles), I don’t want to fight for pennies, but leave I have the right to choose where to play.” - How did such a conversation happen? “I was almost forty minutes late for the performance, I tried to explain that I had good reasons for this. They told me that they would deprive me of fifty percent of my salary plus a reprimand that would be entered into my personal file. I offered to deprive me of all the money, but never return to such humiliating conversations. Then an order was posted: “The artist Ustyugov will be deprived of one hundred percent of his salary for being late for the performance.” For some reason, this caused me delight and inner liberation, and I suggested leaving it that way. And I could ask Alexey Vladimirovich Borodin for time off for filming, saying that I had an interesting job, and not make up the fact that I broke my leg so as not to come to the rehearsal. I’ll be absolutely honest, I don’t know what path my life will take in the future, whether I’ll stay in the profession or go somewhere to the village and raise hares.

“I don’t believe in fairy tales about eternal love”

Niko Nicholas
- The buzz only comes from what works well, goes easily, successfully? “What doesn’t work requires more attention.” Although I always want to give up. Two months ago I shouted that I would stop doing carpentry, I would close the shop to hell (laughs), because everything began to crumble, irritation set in, but in the end I said: “No! You can't give up." After the New Year holidays, I had the illusion of being uplifted, and I like it. I’m not used to just retreating; I want to make a full-fledged business out of this. — In business, you are a maximalist, even a romantic. What about personal relationships? After all, you’ve already been married three times - have you never promised yourself to be together for life? - Never! I don't believe in fairy tales about eternal love. Both in my profession and in my personal life, I want to reserve the right to enjoy relationships. I have always been honest with my women. (Laughs.) I don’t want it to be a burden. - Why do relationships become a burden, what’s going on, you thought? - A lot is happening. I am emotionally active, I fall in love, I light up, sometimes I cool down. I don’t hold on to the idea that relationships are work, that they need to be built, plastered, cemented again. - In any business there are periods of failure or cooling, but you don’t immediately give it up... - The point of no return comes when, through brain activity, and not through an emotional impulse, you come to the conclusion that the relationship has reached a dead end. They can be reanimated, some kind of illusion can be created, but suddenly the meaning of this is lost. I'm not saying that once the light went off, I got up and went. No. You talk, try to come to an agreement, introduce some rules, but at some point you realize that there is no reason to fight for the relationship, because it has faded away. Common sense says: “Wait, there’s a house, an apartment, a child right there...” - but everything becomes unimportant. Although your decision may even cause pain to someone, you are sure that it will be better this way, and you remain honest with yourself and do not live in a lie. Time passes, and you clearly realize that you were right. — You and Yana lived together for quite a long time, raising your daughter. Didn't you at least feel regret that it was all over? “I don’t feel guilty that I didn’t give something to someone, I don’t promise anyone that this will last forever.” I don’t like the relationships of ninety-nine percent of my friends, where the picture shows a beautiful life - two children, a country house and at the same time two more mistresses. And he feels great, maneuvering between streams of lies (laughs) and emotions. It's difficult for me in such relationships. An unloved wife, an unloved job... Although I am sure that the majority live in exactly this reality.

“To be honest, I don’t know what path my life will take in the future.”

Niko Nicholas
- Only your first wife is an actress? - Second. Popularity came when I was already living with Yana Sokolovskaya, and everyone was interested in this, and I myself did not particularly advertise my past. As much as I fall in love with actresses, I understand the material perfectly (laughs), and I wouldn’t want to live with an actress a second time. — Now, as you say, your status is “free.” How does it feel? “I definitely don’t feel any discomfort about this.” Somewhere deep down, I’m probably even afraid of strong emotions. If this happened to me now, I would swear and say: “Bad time.” Great feelings come from God, they cannot be stimulated, but flirting, falling in love, which, as they say, are for the eyes and mood, of course, are present. I am not in a state of despondency. The feeling of freedom is comfortable for me, I don’t have any crisis, although I listen to myself. “You recently said: “If love does come, it will be madness.” How many years can madness last or will it go and love will go too? — If I were a director and they asked me how to play love, I would answer that love is increased attention. On an energetic level. Wherever you are, no matter how far away you are, your soul and brains are always in the touch of the immaterial body - the soul. What with her? How is she feeling? How is she feeling? Is she smiling now or not? If not, why not? And this is not an effort, everything happens on its own. Naturally, you want this soul to smile more, gain joy from life, and want to participate in this. When does it dull? There is such a fashionable book “Love Lives for Three Years” by Begbeder, I read it in one gulp about thirteen years ago. There was a thought about the development and transformation of passion and love, and then I thought about this phrase. And at some point I even agreed with the author. So yes, I will also say that love lasts three years. And then it should move into some other direction. -What kind of relationship is ideal for you? — My ideal relationship is a union of two strong, absolutely independent individuals. This is not a story about two halves of one whole. For me, this is such a meme, a story for young ladies, because after all, we fall in love with people who promise us some kind of spiritual growth and development. Getting to know each other should not repel them, but, on the contrary, give them the feeling that you are yourself together with this person. These are not role-playing games: I am a strong man, and you are a caring woman, you cook, I hunt. If we are talking about creative people, then they need to be alone from time to time. In general, the ability to love is very important. But a very small percentage of people are gifted with it, I’m sure of that. And everyone else imitates it by drawing from books, films and everything else. Most men, this is also my theory, cannot simply live on their own, without a woman. I often observe this habit of being near a being of the opposite sex. This is such immaturity and helplessness, that is, first he lives with his mother, and then either with one woman or with different ones. He needs this spanking and shouting, “Come on, eat it, I said,” “Put on your hat, it’s cold outside,” that is, such feminine care. Such couples live together, as a rule, quite long and happily, they experience drinking bouts, betrayals, job losses and everything else together, because there is a share of son-maternal or father-daughter relationships. But this is not love. — How often do you need to see your daughter? - There is always a need. But my daughter's schedules are more complex than mine. (Laughs.) It happens that she is on vacation, and I am busy. Or I’m free, I come, and she’s preparing for the reporting concert. But then I accompany her to school, take her to the dance and wait until she finishes, that is, all communication happens on the road. And our meetings are kind of ridiculous. Recently I was invited to an award, I invited her. We usually have little interest in the event; we enjoy each other and fool around. I’m filming, I call her: “Zhenya, come!” There are horses and sabers." But we lived exactly the same way. After school I ran to art school. It took six hours to draw, then another three to sculpture, he came late at night, and the next day there was boxing. And this, plus the theater club, social and school activities - drawing wall newspapers, competitions for drummers and buglers - were a combination of incompatible things. Sometimes some kind of fermentation occurred, but, as a rule, to the detriment of something, for example, a friend and I did not make it to art school and instead made a fool of ourselves playing football. — Does Zhenya still play in RAMT? Does she feel like a future actress? “She feels like an active actress.” (Laughs.) She wants to act in films. But I don’t want this yet, because for children there is a very big psychological burden - the test of fame. But theater is still somewhat different.

“I’m reserved, uncommunicative, it’s even awkward to ask the time on the street”

Nico Nicholas
- Do you treat her like a girl or like your boyfriend? “I’m not trying to make boys out of girls, and vice versa.” If she is interested in something from my business, the same motorcycles, I like it. But eleven years is too early for that. I always say that all my motorcycles are hers, and I add: “If a guy asks: “What kind of car does your old man have?” - and when he receives the answer, he is delighted, then he is our person, and if he says: “ Ugh, what nonsense, don’t communicate with him.” (Laughs.) Zhenya is a fashionista, she has her own vision of style. If we go out somewhere, she calls, asks what I will be wearing, remembers my entire wardrobe, chooses a jacket, jeans, shoes for me in accordance with her outfit. - You say she has a complex character... - She is categorical, towards herself first of all. In some ways, our characters are similar, I am also demanding and principled, it is difficult for me to communicate with people who have no goal in life. I hope that she will be a creative person first and foremost, and a creator is very different from a consumer. - Yesterday you were creating something on a lathe... - I have another idea - to revive the Russian wooden toy, turned. This is a big story that no one cares about, but I want to make a toy museum. I am very passionate about this idea, while no one supports it, I am fighting alone on the barricades. The first wooden toys appeared under Peter the Great; he made them himself. Such toys were in sideboards in the USSR, then no one became interested in them, but drawings and blueprints were preserved. They will no longer be toys, because children now play with iPhones, but to preserve history, it can be chiseled and painted. And I’m already making the third series myself. The first is “Soldiers of the Semenovsky Regiment”, and now the series is dedicated to Boris Godunov. I would like to give Andrei Merzlikin, my friend, Shuisky, whom he played in the series. — For you, is there a difference between acquaintances, acquaintances and friends? - This is a complex gradation. At my age, making friends is already difficult, there are people I like, with whom I would like to be friends, but this does not work out due to distances, and meetings with them are short, but always festive and joyful. In addition, I am an active motorcyclist, there is a motorcycle fraternity, and it is quite large throughout Russia. I call people who are close to me in spirit friends. And, of course, a close friend is someone you meet without seeing for a year, even more, and from the first minute there is no barrier, the feeling that you never parted. I have friends with whom I communicate for forty and twenty years, and this is also a considerable period. We are quite free in relationships, not intrusive. In addition, with some you can have fun drinking, with others you can make music and talk about it, but you cannot take them to the mountains, for example. They honestly say: “I won’t go there!” (Laughs.) And there is nothing wrong with that. And there are friends who don’t play guitars, but I will go to the mountains with them, because they are reliable and strong, strong in spirit. (Smiles.) There are friends who will never go near a motorcycle. Therefore, with some I will go to the ends of the world, and others will wait for me and then listen to stories about how I went. (Laughs.) I have no concept of “should” in relation to friends. I love them with all their weaknesses and small betrayals. - And if they show indifference to you, and in the most difficult moments? - For God's sake, they are friends. It's a magnet that pulls! When a friend arrives, we strive to meet. And in fifteen minutes we can tell each other to go to hell because we don’t agree on something. I don't have a consumerist attitude towards friendship. I do not require care, attention, and due to some busyness I myself may miss the big drama in a friend’s life, but this does not mean that I do not empathize. — It seems to me that in many ways you have “scissors”: you are both a leader and a loner, you have many acquaintances and friends, but at the same time you are closed. This probably creates great difficulties? - Yes, there is such a thing. (Smiles.) It’s easy for me to be in contact with people through my profession, although I myself am a reserved, uncommunicative person, it’s awkward to ask on the street. (Laughs.) I can be alone for quite a long time. I feel very comfortable in it. I even look for him because I have to be in public all the time. I am traveling in a compartment with a stranger, an unfamiliar driver is taking me to the shoot, a lot of strangers come up to me on set, and I have to talk, joke, show them my disposition and good mood. You can’t be yourself, because as soon as you stop talking, they immediately ask: “What happened? Are you okay? (Laughs.) Then I wait for loneliness to throw off the mask, I get tired of it and ask to take a train ticket alone in the compartment. As soon as I burst into my apartment and close the door, realizing that I have a day, two, three and I don’t have to go shopping for groceries or cigarettes, I feel simply happy. True, in the end, nicotine fasting wins (laughs), and I find myself forced to leave my den, but it’s quite difficult for me to do this. But I can’t imagine what kind of person could be with me in this state. Therefore, when asked to go on vacation, I usually answer: “On vacation, I am a very boring person.” (Laughs.)

“Knowing each other should not repel, but, on the contrary, give the feeling that you are yourself next to this person”

Niko Nicholas
- There have been many changes in your life related to your profession, including moving... - I have had my St. Petersburg residence permit since 2014, but for thirteen years in a row I filmed in St. Petersburg from four to six months a year. When they asked me: “Are you a Moscow artist?” — I answered “yes,” to which I heard: “Oh, for some reason we thought it was from St. Petersburg.” This gave me pleasure, because in my opinion, being a St. Petersburg artist is a status. (Laughs.) I didn’t move to St. Petersburg, I just didn’t return to Moscow at some point. And considering that on my mother’s side everyone was a survivor of the siege, a Leningrader, being in this city always delighted me. Probably, part of my blood breathed Leningrad dampness, and somehow at the genetic level this resonates with goodness. And I always had a very strange, tense story with Moscow. I remember how a friend from Siberia came to me, we met, and he said: “Come on, show me your favorite places in Moscow.” We were standing near RAMT, and I suddenly clearly realized that during the fifteen years of my stay in Moscow, they had not appeared for me. I started telling him something about Chistye Prudy, and we went there. I said something there, but I felt that this was not my text and this is not my favorite place, I’m just trying to pass it off as mine now. At that moment I realized that something needed to change. And I can talk about St. Petersburg endlessly, it opens up for me in a new way every time, it’s always a sincere curiosity. Every time my plane arrives at Pulkovo, it gives me delight and awe. I go out and feel: home. - So you did everything right. You once said that you win when the bet is high. Can you give an example? — My departure from “Cop Wars” is a big bet. I left a successful project and tried to enter television from a different angle. It's a risk because people don't want to see you in any other way. You can sit in the roles of positive investigators for years and exist calmly, as many actors do. And when you win, you realize that you started practically from scratch. And so with everything. Let’s say with my musical group “Ekibastuz”. The most common question is: “Why am I doing this?” - but I don’t have an answer. They ask: “Is this commerce?” - "Not yet". "Hobby?" - I say: “No, I’m entering the market as a producer, without knowing its laws.” And it's a big bet. I could go in the evening to shine at some premiere, walk around with a glass of champagne, talk with the right people or rehearse a play, and then travel around cities with him and earn money. But I'm going to my music rehearsal room. And I like it. If you play small, nothing will happen, but when “the bet is larger than life” (laughs), your brain is mobilized to the highest degree, courage arises and that same luck comes.