“” aired on Polsat in 1999. The series immediately won the hearts of viewers who watched with sympathy the fate of the Kiepski and Paździoch families. However, for Andrzej Grabowski it was not a dream role at all. “This is my profession, not a hobby,” the actor explained. What happened on the Kiepski set?
“The World According to the Kiepskis”. Andrzej Grabowski talks about behavior on the set
Due to the recent death of Marzena Kipiel-Sztuka, who played the beloved Halinka Kiepska, many actors involved in the production remember their moments together on the set. Andrzej Grabowski, Halinka’s husband in the series, the excellent Ferdynand Kiepski, also tried to remember what happened behind the scenes of the series. The actor was not initially thrilled with the job, he accepted the role of Ferdek because it was an opportunity to earn money, not the role of a lifetime:
I accepted this role with the thought that – after reading the three pilot episodes – since this is my profession, not a hobby, which I often say, I will take it and play these three episodes. I thought then that maybe I would earn some money. This will end and I will continue working in theater and other film opportunities. And it turned out that after these three there were ten. (…) I took on the next ten, not really liking this character and not really liking playing there – he explained in a conversation with Marcin Wieczorek.
This approach also translated into work on the shooting set. Andrzej Grabowski did not like the character and made everyone feel that he was not impressed. It took quite a long time:
During the first hundred episodes, I was unbearable on set. When I came there and put on my tracksuits and T-shirts and they characterized me the way I looked, I was just angry. I was unbearable to the makeup artists, I was unbearable to the costume designers, and I was unbearable to my friends because I didn’t like it very much. I wanted to get out of it. Guided by the principle that this is my profession, not a hobby, I continued – he said with disarming honesty.
Although the role of Ferdynand Kiepski actually brought Grabowski great popularity, the actor did not allow himself to be pigeonholed into a stereotypical Pole. Regardless of his work in “The World According to the Kiepskich”, he starred in dozens of films and series,
Source: Gazeta
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