Haris Romas[/B] took a look back at his TV past and specifically the TV series he created.
The actor spoke to the camera of the show "Pame Danae!" and revealed unknown stories from his artistic career.
"In 1991 I did the series 'Mama Mia' with Rena Vlahopoulou. It was my first scripted work on television. We met Vlahopoulou because Sotiris Moustakas, who had discovered me through a radio review, told her about me. Vlahopoulou was terribly spontaneous. Rena was improvising but she wasn't at her best when we were shooting.
She was already old and all her improvisation was done on the fly or by rehashing old stuff. I didn't like that and I started telling her 'Mrs. Vlahopoulou, you're not saying my words. You say other words and the rhythm is lost'. She would reply 'well, well' and I would tell her again. Her eye was getting wild. At some point, she turns in front of everyone and says 'hey, despite the Shakespeare, I don't owe you,'" said Harris Romas at first.
He then talked about ANT1 and his series on the channel, saying. Kyriakou was an important businessman. I was his choice. He approached me one day at an Ant1 party that I had attended with Rena Vlachopoulou. He nudged me and said 'I want you'.
He said 'because my children and my chauffeur like 'Mama Mia', I think someone who manages to get through to young children and the grassroots with such power is born to be a success on television'. He told me anything I could think of, I should go to his office and ask to see him and tell him that I am Rena Vlahopoulou's son in 'Mama Mia'."
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Specifically about "The Ones and the Nones" he revealed. Anna was a must because I wrote the reel on the girl I saw walking around with a little dog with a bow in her hair, the same bow she had. Kouri was really amazing as 'Vana Daga'.
While doing a 'pilot' we decided that something was wrong and thought to try with other colleagues for the other roles. Stelios Mainas was a suggestion from Anna Hadjissofia. For the role of 'Nana' they wanted Joyce Eweidi.
The only objector to this choice was me. Joyce came to my house to talk and see if we could work things out. When she came over she said 'first of all I'm going to smoke, then I'm going to smoke again and then I'm going to smoke again and then we'll see what we have to say to each other. We ended up sitting on the floor after seven hours laughing endlessly. We got drunk and said we would never break up."
"In 1997 we conceived the idea of 'Bad Vizier' from a comic book, Iznogood. I think 'Bad Vizier' is probably my most underrated series. I meet people and they say 'I like this one best of all. It's the only show I stand and watch just because Christos Efthymiou was in it, and so beautifully."
The others I don't want to watch. We didn't even give this job to Ant1. We understood that it was a great success, that we could have asked for much more money. We asked for an amount from Ant1 which they turned down but MEGA gave it to us."
In the course of the interview, he referred to his career station series "Cafe of Joy" and Periandros Popotas, whom he played.
"The series 'Cafe of Joy' is probably my biggest absolute ratings success, it passed 60% at some point. George Papadakis called me and said 'Harry Roma, I have the numbers, you're killing it. With the first episode you did 40%''. I thought he was a good luck charm. I think Popotas and his town hall was fatal. I'm gonna go with "order and morality" in the proper sense. For the series we had considered Natalia Dragumi and Dimitra Matsouka.
Renia Louizidou came up because there were time constraints for Natalia Dragumi and Dimitra Matsouka was afraid to do comedy again. Her mother ran into me on the street and said 'the biggest mistake of her life is that she didn't play Joy in 'Cafe of Joy'. Suddenly, Renia Louizidou was the role with all the variations and a great female.
It was a huge success. With Anna Hatzisofia we saw that the show was a huge success and we wanted it to end. The channel told us to do another season but I followed the Radu line and told them 'no, I'm staying Popotas forever'. We left the show but we also left this loophole open so that the main characters could be reunited."
Referring to 'Deligiannion Parthenagogue' he confessed that:
"I think 'Deligiannion Parthenagogue' is the highest quality work we have done and also my best performance as an artist on television."
"I think 'Deligiannion Parthenagogue' is the highest quality work we have done and also my best performance as an artist on television. This show was replayed many times at weekends on Ant1 and was recognized like no other. Katie Constantinou had terrible nerves on set because a series of mishaps happened that delayed her, such as the wig not being right.
When we were shooting, a minute before I said to her 'you have to count to ten, take a deep breath and completely change inside and outside for the comedy to come out'. She replied 'I don't even need to count to ten, I'll count to three'. He counted and it was an orchard."
Finally, the renowned screenwriter revealed that the next series he will do on television will probably be his last. "My next TV series may be my last and it follows in the footsteps of this type of situation, like 'Deligiannion Parthenagogue'."
Source: Proto Thema
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