The beloved actress Dora Chrysikou spoke about the collaboration with Theodoros Angelopoulos at the age of 14, while referring to cancer and how she realized through her illness that she did not want to become a mother.
A guest on the show “Studio 4” was found on Wednesday afternoon (27/03) h Golden giftswho spoke about her collaboration with Theodoros Angelopoulos at an early age, about cancer, about hysterectomy and for the great realization he came to, through the adventure of illness.
The beloved actress spoke, initially, about the great director and her participation in the film “Meteor step of the stork”, which caused reactions. As he described:
“The then Metropolitan Augustinos excommunicated the entire cast. It was the fourth film that Angelopoulos made in that area, in Florina. He loved the city, its colors. All the rhetoric against the film was that it was anti-Greek – because it talked about the abolition of borders – and anti-Christian. This is 1990. He leaked the script and tried to get the film banned. However, with his anti-Hellenic and anti-Christian arguments, he did not catch the pulse of the world. So the next thing was that the movie was pornographic. All this was based on a 14-year-old girl being a prostitute. So the whole aphorism part fell on me. In essence, it was based on the fact that there is an underage girl who is being prostituted.”
Referring to cancer, Dora Chrysikou, who has spoken many times openly about her illness, said: “Fear dominated completely, for a while, and dominates less and less as time goes on. If you ask me what is the biggest challenge you have as a human being, it is definitely fear. Fear is a terrible thing. It paralyzes you. It’s the fear of dying, it’s the fear of relapse. It has various forms. It is also the fear of acceptance, abandonment. I was afraid, for example, will they want me? will my partner want me? will i get a job Me, to tell you the truth, my biggest fear was whether they would love me. Sometimes I say it with a lot of emotion”.
And noted: “Of course people left. I think that from a point on I have become much more patient and more tolerant, I can understand the human fate through illness. They can’t stand it. Obviously you forgive, but you are called to renegotiate those who endure. Because I too was called to renegotiate and in a way to reinvent myself. So others are also called to adapt to a new reality. I see that I have been given a second chance. And when you are given a second chance, you make sure not to repeat the mistakes of the past. My partner stood up for me a lot.”
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She then confessed that the hysterectomy led her to the realization that she wanted to be a mother. As he said: “I was in IVF. Luckily that didn’t happen. I was very lucky, because that’s when I realized that I didn’t want to have a child. I entered the process at the beginning, because I too stepped on the banana peel of social checks. I was a person who always followed my own path. Nevertheless, while I was a person who closed my ears, I entered this process. Because this social is very internal. I had said “come now baby”. I really didn’t want to. I didn’t have the maternal instinct that I saw in other women. That’s why I went to the extracorporeal procedures with a heavy heart, I didn’t have the joy. I went normally, I said I would do it and I would do it, because I am very disciplined”.
And he concluded: “Eventually that happened and I had the uterus removed and a total hysterectomy – because the cancer had spread elsewhere. There, when I could say “damn freedom”, I said “now, there are neither social nor anything, now biologically I cannot become a mother”. There I realized, through a difficult process, that I didn’t want to be a mother after all. And that was an explosion of awareness. Life brought me to this. Out of necessity, out of things, I fully realized my own desire”.