“I don’t want my children to see me on the pegs for these reasons” says the actor about the relationship with a presenter who was charged
Yannis Stankoglou spoke about his life, his role in the MEGA series “The Shipwreck” and about the debacle that started from the show Happy Day with his alleged relationship with a presenter, on the show “Mega Kalimera”.
Speaking about his life and his career, Yannis Stankoglou said: “I get up at 6:30, I get my children ready. I feel very happy, since I was little I didn’t sleep much, even when I stayed up late. Growing up, I understand that when you wake up early, you have a lot of time ahead of you to do things you like. If I have a turn, I will go, if I don’t I can sit and read, learn my words, read a book, do outside work, many things. I’ve started a gym after 2 years, I had a sprain and because of the heavy workload I didn’t have the time.”
Regarding theater and television, the beloved actor says: “21 years of theater in a row, this year I’m not doing, it seems strange to me like an oasis this period. It makes a big difference, you have your weekends, for the first time I didn’t work New Year’s and Christmas, it has really given me a lot of strength. After “The Island” and for 11 years I said “no” to TV, because I didn’t see anything interesting, that would tempt me in the script. I had suggestions, but I didn’t need it at the time. While I wasn’t doing TV, I was doing a lot of theater. 4-5 months ago 10 years ago I was doing 14 shows a week. I’ve done a lot of cinema, I’ve had enough of theater, because I’ve done nice jobs, I’m full of theater. Cinema, although I have done a lot, is something I love very much and I want to do something I like. I saw “Poor Things” by Lanthimos and was amused.”
Referring to the MEGA series “The Shipwreck” and his role, he notes: “The role of “Hippocrates” is dark and where are you still? He is much darker. Hippocrates truly loves Irene, but what does truly love mean? There is a background to Hippocrates, as he has grown up, I don’t agree with that in real life. He is a man who expects that Irene will change at some point, that she will really love him and become what he asks for, a real family, however he wants it.”
As Yannis Stankoglou says “I think that at some point Irini will discover the secret. All series have a beginning, middle and end, few things are left up in the air. Irene is attached to the man she lost, Hippocrates is not the man who will get her to the other side in his own way. Something else is needed, a man who will give freedoms, who will have other minds, fresher”.
“I was very fascinated by the darkness of my role, I thought about it a lot to take it on, because it also came after “This Night Remains”, where he was also a dark man. I didn’t want to make a character that is close,” he adds, mentioning: “We all have dark sides, some I’ve lightened a little, some I’ve tamed, I’ve dealt with myself. I have been doing psychoanalysis since I was 22. I needed it and I was able to do it and it helped me. It wasn’t anything serious then.”
Regarding his personal life and his family, he says: “It was a violent environment where I grew up, we were kids and my group tried everything, we did our bums, we did things that were forbidden at the time. The fact that I came out of all this strong is something that I carry and in any difficulty I tell myself that I have succeeded”. “I worry about my children, I believe when parents communicate with children, talk openly, give love and the children become more than friends, they understand until… they come to talk to you”, he adds and mentions:
“Before kids it was easy to “get” them from one second to the next. Knowing that they don’t have to experience that, they had to see a parent who is somewhat balanced, who can express themselves in their difficulties, there is a balance. I love more deeply, more after the arrival of my children and selflessly.” As he says: “I don’t want my children to see me on the pegs for these reasons (including relationships). I am a human and an actor that I have not given rights to. When I want to speak I will speak, when I don’t want to speak I will not speak and no one has the right to speak on my behalf”.
Regarding the incident with Stamatina Tsimtsili, he says: “For me, it was something that I did not need, I had not given any rights, nothing happened. Let’s not lie, it was something that bothered me too at first, I tried to see what happened. (…) I said to take Tsimtsili and tell her what and how… But I saw that this continued. Even if someone apologizes after a lie, a stupidity, something wrong, these things remain. Luckily I caught on and told my kids. The other day my daughter went to school and her friends were asking her ‘what happened to your dad?’ It was the first time something like this happened and I was shocked.” “I have never been in such a difficult position before, I felt for many years that they respect me and that they respect my work. It was the first time and that’s why I was so shocked,” he adds.
