[Cyprus Times] Rika Diamina: "Papamichael was to blame for the competition with Vougiouklaki in Doppelpenies"

"He had told her, Mori, if you don't get up and leave, I'm throwing away my wedding ring and I never want to see you again."

In a special interview, Rika Diaghina went ahead, about the theatre, her family, the beauty pageant and her career in America.

More specifically, the actress spoke to the "Pame Danae" camera, where, among other things, she mentioned the job offer from the great Federico Fellini, but also the competition she saw between Aliki Vougiouklaki and Dimitris Papamichael.

First of all, Rika Diaghina talked about her family and her first steps in the theatre.

"I had a sister who was very beautiful and I was the ugly duckling. When I was little I told my mom that I hear what they say about me and I said 'I'm going to be beautiful on the inside'. Ever since I was a little kid I loved the theatre. I made an impromptu theatre in an orchard and I used to get nuts shelled for a ticket. At art school I went on to talk about Menelaus Ludemis. I went to meet him and he asked me to design the cover of his book. Menelaos Ludemis gave me a 500 for the cover, I told him that art is not paid, I only asked him to put my name on it," she said.

About her participation in the beauty pageant, Rika Diaghina said: "A friend of my aunt took a picture of me and sent the photo to the pageant. I said I'm going to the pageant and if I don't get in, I'll be a nun. I couldn't believe it when I came out as Star Ellas. I thought I was an ugly girl. Just as the pageant was about to announce who came in first, I hid under a table out of fear. They wouldn't give me permission to go to America for 'Miss Universe' because they said I was 'left-wing'. I signed that I was 'right-wing' without knowing anything about politics."

In the course of the conversation, the actress talked about her regret about her career in America, saying: "All the journalists were talking about the girl from Greece who they were afraid in America that she would upset them. I had a dream that an Anastasiades was helping me, when I got my passport, an Anastasiades had signed to leave. Jim Londos was giving me $3,000 to present an event, I refused and 3 of his people were after me. To save myself, I took the hand of a passerby to ask him to be my guardian and that's how I met my first husband."

About the proposal about a job from the great Federico Fellini, she said: "Fellini had sent me a letter to offer me a leading role and my flatmate threw it away. I found the letter in the trash, I went to find him and he said 'what about you I'm going to chase you? At an event all of a sudden Warren Beatty grabbed me and started chasing me. I was throwing everything I could find at him, it was a nightmare. I met him two years after the incident, he came to apologize and I told him it was too late."

About Aliki Vougiouklaki and Dimitris Papamichael, Rika Diaghina said: "I think it was Dimitris Papamichael's fault for the competition with Aliki in Doppelpenny. Alice and I in drama school used to hang out together and when she asked me to go to Duplicates I accepted. On the first day of shooting the film, Dimitris Papamichael and Aliki Vougiouklaki didn't want to be photographed and broke up the shoot. Dimitris Papamichael sewed my clothes so that my cleavage wouldn't show.

At a Greek dinner event in Italy, they had brought 15,000 dishes for Aliki Vougiouklaki. She got up to dance and no fuss was made. As soon as I got up to dance, all the paparazzi started taking pictures of me and broke the plates for me. Dimitris Papamichael got jealous and said to Aliki "baby, if you don't get up and leave, I'm throwing away my wedding ring and I don't want to see you again" and many years passed without talking to Aliki.

Finally, Rika Dialina left a comment about Lambros Konstantinaras, saying: "Lambros Konstantaras was a lord, but he was also a bit cunning. On the set he showed me 'strange' magazines."

Source: Proto Thema

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