Interview in the magazine OK! granted by Nikos Polyderopoulos. During the interview, the actor also spoke about Mount Athos and the loss of his little brother.
“My father and I went together and held a memorial service for my brother. Mount Athos is a place that helps me get very close with my conscience, with my actions, with the way I behave, with whether I have changed, with how I want to be” he said initially.
Did you feel better on your last visit to Mount Athos?
I was relieved. I went to say goodbye to my brother, to the place we had gone together last time. Our last trip was to Mount Athos a year ago. And a week before he passed away we were talking about going again.
How do you deal with each ending that comes?
For me every end is a new beginning. An ending or a setback does not mean that it prevented me from reaching my destination. It delayed me, but for important reasons, so that I could get more supplies to continue.
And the ending that comes with losing an important person in your life?
There are no words when you experience such a situation. For me, my motto for everything that can happen is “we will fix it!”. When this happened to my brother, I went to say it, but how to fix it? There you realize that you are very young. We have always been close as a family, everything that happened to us obviously shook us as an event, but it brought us even closer. But I feel that my brother is everywhere. Wherever I ask him, he comes. I feel that he is somewhere and sees us. It is a force. Of course we lost a part of us. This gap is not filled. You get used to living with loss. There is “before Pantelis” and “after Pantelis”. (snorts)
In the losses that come suddenly, you think that you can’t control life after all.
But you can command life. But you can command yourself. Be good and don’t waste yourself on trivial things. Do you know what I always do in my life? I don’t have people next to me sucking my head and telling me “do this or that”.
