Kostas Koklas[/B] was a guest on the show "He and the other" presented by Thodoris Vamvakaris and Takis Giannoutsos on ERT.
The actor who has been giving the TV audience a lot of laughter for 20 years through the roles he plays talked about "Mama's Cake" and his meeting with his... steady TV wife, Katie Konstantinou.
The talented actor talked about his childhood and revealed how he made the decision at 15 to become an actor. That's where you went and got a job, the actors were very close to the ERT building. My first jobs were there," he said."
The actor also talked about the gay kiss he played in the show and was praised on social media he said: "Anyone can do whatever they want, years ago it wasn't easy. It shocked people, which I suggest people get over. Whatever is true and with love does not shock people are not stupid, they know."
The emotion in "Crimes"
He then talked about the great success of "Crimes": "Comedy back then was white and not black. 'Crimes' went inside the family and showed the different characters that exist in a home, the concessions that are made and the difficulties. I believed the company and the man who wrote them. But back then television was wild because there were the TV cards. The networks didn't take chances lightly, the first six episodes went lean and were about to be cut and suddenly it made 40s and we were picked back up. People saw it more, the cast wasn't all familiar. In my experience if it's a good show if it doesn't go in the year it's on it will go later. We were having a good time on "Crimes". In the last scenes they couldn't stop crying. They saved me to say the last line in the show and I didn't want to say it, I was moved."
Elsewhere in the interview, he recounted his sparring experience at Epidaurus and less pleasant memories of his career as an actor, and touched on bullying and abusive behaviour in the theatre.
Asked if it bothers him that many people identify him with his role in "Crimes," he said, "Years ago, I didn't want to be remembered for certain shows. I wanted to be remembered for a lot of things, for my work. It's inevitable that people will identify you with something and logically with the first hit. At the same time I was in "Givery" and I was playing a very bad character, a gigolo, and I was going to park and they would call me names, they would say "that's who you are!. It was the status of theatre actors to snub TV actors. Television was something very second-rate, something trivial, and there was this 'don't do TV or you'll get burned. I grew up in a generation that was bullied a lot until it found its way, what was good and what wasn't, what was standard and what wasn't. A lot of people didn't last in this job, those who really loved the job and had a strong personality did."
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