The death of Anna Panagiotopoulos, who passed away at the age of 76, has caused sadness in the artistic world. The beloved actress had retired in recent years from the art she loved so much due to serious health problems she was facing. Living peaceful moments between her home in Lycabettus and her “peaceful” holiday home in Tinos, her favorite Cycladic island.
«Greece is a wonderful country, and I grieve for its fate. Today’s Athens repels me so much that I leave at every opportunity.
One of the few places where I still find a sweet spot and go to eat, and where the people are nice, is “Aphrodite” in Platia Proskopi. Last year I withdrew to my beloved Tinos. I was very happy next to nature and away from the city.
After all, it is one of the few places that we still haven’t destroyed. Although I’m afraid it’s only a matter of time“, she had said with disarming honesty in an interview with LIFO.
Anna Panagiotopoulou avoided giving interviews, preferring to talk about her work. However, we collected some excerpts from her interviews and statements.
For her parents
«The relationship that has saddened me was that of my mother and my father because they broke up badly. My mother suffered a lot and this thing made me afraid of relationships and getting attached” confessed Anna Panagiotopoulou and continued: “At some point my father left and went to Crete. Lost. He got married there. I saw him when I went to my friend’s wedding…“, she had stated in an interview with Kostas Tsouros.
For her son
“When he was at school I did ‘Madame Soussou’ on TV – a huge hit – and he wouldn’t let me pick him up from school. Most of his classmates didn’t know who his mom was.”
The role in Madame Soussou
«My favorite role on TV was Madame Soussou by far. I adored her from the book, I had a crush and when she proposed to me, I said ‘Christ, thank you’”.»
The highest paid episodes of Dolce Vita
«Television made a lot of money back then. I was getting a million an episode on Dolce Vita. Regardless of success, that was the deal. That’s what happened to me, that’s what I said. I didn’t think they would even give it to me.»
Television has become a state within a state
«It passes ideologies, it passes opinions, it has become an uncontrollable medium. This bothers me a lot. With my old colleagues I feel a close artistic kinship. Whenever we happen to play together again, it proves how strong and shared our codes are. I don’t have any repressed roles.»
Time and its signs
«It doesn’t concern me. I’ve grown anyway… It’s natural. It depends on how you deal with it. Tinos has played a huge role for me. I have said many times “God, thank you that I grew up and can do this now” – because I couldn’t have done it before and I know it very well.
On the other hand, I don’t miss anything I did when I was young. Because I’m not young anymore. I don’t say “ah, why don’t I fall in love now…”. Since I don’t care about that, I don’t even care. It only saddens me that the years ahead of me are getting shorter.
I think about how many more years I will live, how many years I will be able to work in whatever way I work, how old my granddaughter will be when I pass away…- such».
Her relationship with Alexandros Rigas and the misunderstanding
«My relationship with Alexandros Rigas is now fine. It is also Alexander three sing and two dance, I am also three sing and two dance. None of us are bad. I have no bitterness towards this story. Something happened with one of the producers because I came on stage holding a piece of paper.
I always do this and he told me that to put the show on I would have to give him so much money because I didn’t know my words. I got pissed and got up and left. There I got pissed off with Rigas because he took Diavati and “raised” the performance».
Thanasis Efthymiadis
«We didn’t have the best relationship. Thanasis was a bit smitten. He was beautiful, he is beautiful. Efthymiadis had a medium that went into the series, I don’t need to say it now. Someone was pushing him, that was for sure. Through this he also had an arrogance.»
Mina Adamaki
«At the Three Graces we did everything we could think of. Mina Adamaki wanted to make the smallest panda. Meanwhile, she is older than all of us. “I will make the smallest one”. “Yes my Mina, you will be the youngest”».
Mirka Papakonstantinou
«I fight a lot with Mirka every time I see her because she doesn’t stop eating and it bothers me a lot. She is very beautiful and I say to her “Baby is it possible to be beautiful from here on out? sit down and relax”».
For Lakis Lazopoulos, Anna Panagiotopoulou was also revealing
«We never had a good relationship with Lakis. He is a man of a different mentality and very cunning. I beat him, I slapped him. He came one day and said to me “I am very sad because journalists told me that you were sharing the money with Livadas and that is why you are not giving me more money”. I slapped him twice in front of the crowd. No shame, no discrimination“, he had said in the last interview he had given to Giorgos Liagas.