“The Athematics”: Reunion for “Soula” and “Costas” 36 years later – The Spartan serial and the backstage stories

To remember the oldest, and to learn the younger… “The Atherites” were a very humorous, with sparing dialogues, unrepeatable and a script “drink it in the glass”. “Soula” and “Costas”, two of the heroes of the series – who were given flesh and blood by actors Christos Valavanidis and Natasha Tsagarisianou – met 36 years after filming and told unknown stories. CORVERSE Christos Valavanidis said, speaking today (10.01.2025) on the camera of “Go Danai”, that “The Atheirists” were the first series of free private television while Natasha Tsakarisianou reported that the show was very, very successful because the people who played were next door and were not unrealistic.” I played “Capela”, the owner of a piano bar that was a peasant and married to “Soula”, said Christos Valavanidis. “For the role of Soula in the ‘insolents’ Anna Panagiotopoulou had been proposed at first and then Mirka Papakonstantinou but both refused. I remember a scene where Valavanidis had to fall down on the set and had made a lot of noise, wanted to mop first,” Natasha Chakarisianou said. CORVERSE “The role of mine and Pouliakos was symbolic. We were called “Costas and Andreas” by Karamanlis and Papandreou, which is why we kept fighting. It was a scene where we were in bed and made a love scene and broke the bed,” said Christos Valavanidis. Natasha Chakarisianou said that in the love scene with the bed, Christos said in her ear “now we tear up, it will be a mess with this serial, don’t cut it, don’t cut it.” “ A lot of lines to the “Insects” were ours, ” added Christos Valavanidis. “In a scene Valavanidis gave me a slap that did not exist directorically but I was not misunderstood. They see me now after all these years and say, ‘What are you doing, Shula?’ “My daughter suffered at school when “the arbitrarys” were playing, they called her ‘Capela’. The last scene of the series was the most touching,” said Christos Valavanidis. “I had crashed a taxi driver and he recognized me and he says ‘I’m sorry you crashed me’. I always listened to Valavanidis who gave me advice and told me he noticed this point,” Natasha Tsakarisianou concluded.