Paul Kontoyannidis: The sudden deaths of my brother and sister were dealt with more realistically.

“The third major loss was my best man, Jessie Papoutsis,” said .An interview with On Time and Sissy Menegato was granted by Paul Kontogiannidis. The actor spoke, among other things, about the losses that marked him. In your life, what was the hardest loss that hurt you the most? There were three possible casualties. The first was my mother. I remember when I was playing at the Delphinario and my brother called me that Mother was not well. I caught my mom. I remember she had shortness of breath and I said “I have friends in Veria, to bring you an oxygen bottle”. He looked at me with that simple look of the universe, preparing the journey the great, and he replied “my boy, what should I do with oxygen? I now chat with Archangel.” The second loss was when I visited the great Akis Panou, who was kept in the hospital and begged the police to let me see him, because he asked me to visit him. I was very moved by our conversation, after a while he died. The third big loss was my best man, Jesse Papoutsis. My brother’s two sudden deaths last August and my sister’s a month later, I faced them more realistically. Maybe because it was the first time I saw a dead man to get familiar with death, and that was with my brother and sister. My mother I couldn’t see her dead, I didn’t want to, I couldn’t bear it.