He feels full from his artistic career. Tasos Chalkias has a weakness for the theatre and gives advice to young actors.
The leading actor reveals himself to grtraveller.
What was the moment when you said “I’m going to be an actor”?
At no time did I say it! I went to the National Theatre School and took the exams and after I passed, my later teacher and then one of my examiners, Stelios Vokovich, told me that I was good and I would make it!! So they told me, I never said it !!!!
Do you remember what was your first role in theatre and television?
In the theatre, “Luther the Reformer” and on television, Constantis, Papamichael’s nephew in the adapted novel, “Peace”, for ERT 2 in 1979.
The actor is not an entertainer, he is an artist…
Who were your idols?
I had no idols, because I had no idea about theatre! At school I learned everything, and later I realized that all the actors I had met from Greek films, unconsciously at first, consciously when I realized what was happening to me, were all my teachers!!!!
Theatre, television or cinema?
All three are inseparable from the acting profession. I have a weakness for the theatre !!!
Is there a role of “rejection”?
There were and there will be rejections for some roles because I’m older now and they’ve gotten away from me in terms of age. Otherwise I am full from my work !!!
Should the artist have a voice to intervene in society or is he only an entertainer?
An actor is not an entertainer, he is an artist and that is something very different and quite complex and a bit incomprehensible. That’s why for a lot of people they’re just entertainers. The entertainer through his own personality, through his own character, tells or creates unexpected moments, scattered and different, with the sole purpose of laughter and the general entertainment of the viewer and listener. Instead, the actor creates another fictional human character through his own character, lending him his own. After he has reconstructed, shaped and adapted to him, that is, to the role, his own feelings, habits, practices and logics of himself. It is a difficult and painful psychosomatic process and it is called acting!
Does a good actor mean a good acting teacher?
Not necessarily! The teaching of acting is another related talent but quite different in its application and therefore in its usefulness. So a good actor is not necessarily a good teacher.
Let’s go for a dream, so we can always be children!!
What advice would you give to a young kid who wants to become an actor?
The ambitious young person who wishes to study theatre will benefit greatly in life. But when he decides to make a living as an actor, he must be aware that the profession needs another additional talent, that of good public relations.
The present and the future in your appearances and plans?
The future is bleak and gloomy and can only be viewed with humour because as we know, when citizens make plans, governments laugh. Let’s go for a dream, so we can always be children!!
What are your three favourite destinations?
Porto Germeno, eastern Pelion, the big islands of the Aegean !!!
