Richard Groenendijk is still not used to having BN’ers counter gas. He is annoyed by Angela de Jong, who, according to him, writes mean columns. “Sometimes someone is already on the floor!”
After all these years you would think that everyone is now used to Angela de Jong and her columns in the AD, but not. Richard Groenendijk thinks it’s all too far, he says in the Lightless Lounge. He is shocked when he hears that she has also been in that podcast. “Was Angela de Jong here? Ohhhhh.”
Mean
Richard has difficulty with Angela. “Yes, no, you have to listen: she has to know for herself what she is doing. I just find it sometimes lately that it is in common. I think: darling. I don’t know what it is. I often agree with her, I have to say. She really writes good columns and still …”
“Someone once said to me: you have two types of people in this profession, people who make things and create things, and people who think something about it, and you have to make sure you belong to the first group. I have always listened to that. That is really true. You have to be with the makers and with the people who come up with. Not with the people who find something. That is not fun.”
On the ground
It’s a shame that Angela is, says Richard. “I always read it, I have to say honestly, but sometimes I think: well, that person is already on the floor, you can leave it for a while.”
According to him, the same applies to Yvonne Coldeweijer, whom he used to see in the musical Wicked. “That was actually really good. Then I sometimes think: she was really a great talent, but she can never do that again. No, of course not. She has made so many enemies, so she’s just finished now.”
“Yes, I am happy that I am with the makers …”