“The script is the most difficult. It’s a damn job. If you can’t write, it’s a damned day, because you’re wasting the day, even if you don’t write anything at all.”
He spoke about his life and career on the show “Smile Again!” the actor and screenwriter Giorgos Kapoutzidis, who also revealed who he was as a role model.
“This is how I thought I would become famous. That I will write a serial, I will take a secondary role. My role model was Michalis Reppas. I was saying, I’m going to do this. I started writing when I went to drama school. I wrote something with a friend of mine, very nice and funny. Then I was on Takis Zaharatos’ show. I told him and he replied “does it matter to me?” and I told him no. He immediately took Maria Kavogianni and told her that a friend of his had written something and to take it to her. We went to Maria Kavogianni’s house and there were all the actors from “Crimes” and other series that I used to watch,” Giorgos Kapoutzidis said initially.
“Maria read it and told me that she liked it and that she will help us. We went to the studio and he gave the script to Froso Ralli and Dina Kasou. That’s how they started. The series never happened, but it was what paved the way for me. Then I started writing “Saturday Born”, he continued. He then described a scene when he went to give the series “Sabbath born” at MEGA. “I went to the MEGA date with sunglasses because I was crap, I’d been drinking the day before, while I don’t drink I know my limits. I was trying to talk about the script and that I had an “expiration date”. There were no serials then by first-timers, I was the first.”
For its biggest success, Para 5 said it “helped open doors for a lot of people. I feel my dream changes as needed. The script is the most difficult. It’s a damn job. If you can’t write, it’s a damn day, because you’re wasting the day, even if you don’t write anything in the end. I really enjoyed the time I wrote the series “Serres” before it was decided to become a series. It started from a broken arm of my father in the quarantine in Serres, but also in “Karyatida” the play”, revealed the beloved actor.
Giorgos Kapoutzidis was also mentioned in the presentation on “The Voice”. “The life I have built on the island I live on is very nice. I wouldn’t want to be here. The Voice is a company I have and we had a very nice atmosphere. I was gone from that part. After a bad event happened, we met with all the contributors. It crossed my mind if I would do it again. After 20 days they called me to go and I said I will do it. I was very anxious on my first shoot and whether it was the right decision. After the first shoot, the stress went away and I said ‘that was great’, I didn’t expect Voice to do so well,” he said.
