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Arshavin confirms imminent plan to become a movie star
By Andrew Allen
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Photo: sport.co.uk
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Andrey Arshavin has revealed on his personal website that
he will have a role in a new film entitled 'I'm not Arshavin' which will
be directed by Russian scriptwriter Ilya Shilovsky.
The 29-year-old Arsenal midfielder hopes that having been won over by
an 'interesting' script that the project will be well received although
he admits that due to contractual obligations he himself is unable to
reveal specific details.
'I was invited to play a role of one of the characters in the lyrical,
sports comedy of Ilya Shilovsky,' Arshavin relayed to his quirky website.
'The movie is called: 'I'm not Arshavin.' It all started, as usual, in
the film business, with a script. It struck me as interesting.
'I hope that the film will come out and the audience will like it. Under
the contract, I can not disclose the details of the film. So, today on
our website, we publish an interview with the director of the film, an
outstanding and talented man Ilya Shilovsky, who will do all the talking
for me. It was his idea after all.'
Perhaps inspired by Eric Cantona's successful transition from football
star to movie star, Arshavin looks set to be a real star of the Rusian
silver screen.
Outlining the plot of his film, in which Arshavin takes on the role of
mentor to an obese football obsessive, director Shilovsky continued:
'The plot of the story is as following: there lives an 18 year old boy
Lecha Bobkov (for friends just Boba) who wants only one thing - to play
football like his idol Andrey Arshavin. The tragedy of the guy is that
his dream is not feasible. His weight is more than 150 kg. His whole family
consists of the very big people and it's almost impossible to fight the
genetic disorder.
'And then there's also unrequited love, a girl Boba in love with prefers
another one - a slender, handsome guy, who, besides everything else, is
the best striker of the local football team.
'In desperation, Boba, looking at the poster of his idol hanging over
his bed, turns to Andrey calling for help for the hundredth time. And
Suddenly Andrey appears to Boba in a form of a magician or a vision and
promises to help. Boba, having taken an encounter with his favorite player
for a hallucination doesn't pay any attention to this meeting until the
next day, when trying to play football, understands that he plays just
like his idol Arshavin. In this connection his life becomes a series of
dizzy adventures, where his good angel Andrey Arshavin comes to his rescue.'
Sport.co.uk,
27 August 2010
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