“There were producers who said ‘don’t cast him, he’s gay'”
Yiannis Zouganelis and Kostas Tournas spoke about their new stage collaboration on the show “Studio 4”, with the former even recalling the time when he himself collaborated with public television and radio, wanting to point out how much times have changed since then.
More specifically, Yiannis Zouganelis initially confessed that “I was an employee of ERT, a school from which I learned most of the good things, especially in radio broadcasting. We had Sofia Michalitsi on the radio at the time, who recently passed away, while there were producers who overrode her and said “don’t play him, he’s gay”. And then there was no homophobia, there was homoaggression.” “I mean, we’re talking about how I’ve lived a lot. I remember a musician I brought in at the time, who I don’t know if he was gay, but he had an effeminacy. An amazing musician, who had a femininity. Which I liked that he was feminine, because he had a character and they didn’t let him play in a children’s show, which I was doing at the time. What can we say now” he added.
“In 2004 when I participated in the process of the Paralympic games selflessly, all the dogs were nested in all the districts. Everything. I want to say that things have changed a little today for the better and I hope this continues and is good for people who have made mistakes, to criticize in the past, because that is the only way society can move forward” added Yiannis Zouganelis.
