Chris Zegers finds the way in which he was insulted in the smartest person in 2016 (!) Unprecedented and unjustified. “Very vilein, all of Vilein. Very condescending. My mother called me really right.”
Chris Zegers proves again how incredibly lightly touched Dutch celebrities. The already 54-year-old actor was offended in De Slimste Mens nine years ago and is still talking about it today. He does with The Persstribune Namely his complaint about what colleague George van Houts called at the time as a candidate in the quiz.
“Not an actor!”
What exactly happened at the time? Chris was in a movie as a questioner. Because he had just recorded the film the hell of ’63, he was allowed to ask a question about the Elfstedentocht.
George had to guess good answers and shouted: “Hell of ’63 was the worst film ever released in the Netherlands, Chris Zegers is not an actor, it was terrible what he did there, stop!”
Incredibly painful
Well, Chris is still angry about that now. He is bothering in that program of NPO Radio 1: “I once saw a comment and that was really so incredibly painful. (…) It was following the Elfstedentocht and I had played a role in a film about the Elfstedentocht.”
He continues: “You can find everything about that, whether I play it right or not, but apart from that: there was an actor and he had to answer that question. Then Philip Freriks asked:” Did you see that movie? ” Then he said, “Well, I don’t know if I have seen that movie, but Chris Zegers is not an actor.”
All -vile
You can’t say that on national TV, says Chris. “Very, very, very … yes, how should I say it? Very vilein, very vilein. Very condescending. I hadn’t even seen it myself, but my mother had seen it. He called me the next day and he said,” Did you see that? ” I said, “No,” and it hurt her so much.
“It is a colleague. I have played in fifteen series, acted for 25 years and no: I don’t do it every day and no, I am not playing Shakespeare every day at the Toneelgroep Amsterdam. I know my place and I know my limitations, but how cannot you give someone the opportunity to be an actor because he happened to have not followed a stage education?”
Insecure
George has gone three steps too far, he believes. “I find it really embarrassing. (…) No, I never met him. I don’t know.”
Chris is still with it. “I can feel insecure about this. You want to step over it, because there are also enough actors who say:” I think it’s great to work, because you bring something else. “