LIFE STORY. Actor Arnold Willems (90) visited your living room 1,067 times: “I have osteoarthritis, a pacemaker and a hip prosthesis, but I’m not complaining” | BV

BV“Come on, let’s have a beer.” They were his ‘famous last words’, long before Arnold Willems (90) lost the unequal fight against life – an unfortunate fall and a hopeless fight against corona, you know. This is the portrait of an actor whose most famous role brought him into your living room 1,067 times. But especially from a man who was not at all as ordinary as his alter ego in ‘Wittekerke’ suggests: “If I could live my life over again, I would do everything the same way. Everything.”