The article presents a discursive analysis of the interviews with contemporary actors of theater and cinema. United in a discursive formation, these interviews allow to reveal their informative problematic and thematic focus, which is different in different age periods of the characters. These circumstances determine the selection of language means of expression, leaving the possibility of subjective variation in use. Both Russian information structure and language means of expression in methodical comprehension are considered as a base of manuals for the departments of creative arts in Russian as a foreign language and culture of speech for native speakers of Russian.