Danny de Munk (50) was in no doubt when he was asked for the new series of the legendary comedy series ‘All Stars’. In it, the football friends return after more than twenty years. Not on the football field, but as a bartender in the club or as a treasurer. And is it about the VAR, iPhones and showering with underwear on.
“When I got the script, I thought it was a genius. At a certain point you were also done with that old guard”, Danny de Munk says in conversation with the ANP about All Stars & Zonen. After the two All Starsfilms he makes his first appearance in the television series. He noticed during the recordings that they have all aged a bit. “At a certain point I could almost use the oxygen after a match. That was different years ago. But the atmosphere among ourselves was still as before.”
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The success of All Stars started in 1997 with the film about a group of friends who play soccer together for the Swift Boys in their spare time. The series followed two years later, of which three seasons were broadcast, and another film was released in 2011, All Stars 2: Old Stars. In All Stars & Zonen, which starts on NPO 3 on Sunday, the men are now in their fifties and have handed the ball over to their sons and daughters.
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Main characters from previous films and TV series, including Kasper van Kooten, Peter Paul Muller, Isa Hoes, Thomas Acda, Daniel Boissevain and Raymi Sambo, return. They are joined by a handful of new actors, including Soundos El Ahmadi, Tom van Kalmthout and Alex Hendrickx.
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One of the ‘young dogs’ is Joes Brauers, who gained fame at the age of 11 with the role of Crumb. He plays in the new team Nero, the half-brother of Hero (Antonie Kamerling) and Nemo (Cas Janssen) – ‘a kind of floaty, all-nuanced, hazy, spiritual boy’. “It was really cool to be able to play with the old team”, says Joes (21) about the recordings, which all took place in corona time. “You immediately noticed that they have been attuned to each other for years.”
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They had a shooting day together with the old cast. Joes: “They arrived, read the text for a while five minutes before action, stood up and it was All Stars right away. Then I thought: this ease with which they identify themselves with their character, that collective memory, is really special. “
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What makes the series so successful? Recognisability, according to both actors. “Whether you are twenty or forty, you know that football culture, the dressing room humor. The fun of being on the field at 08.00 in the morning,” says Danny. “And the guys who watched it then are older now. Just like us, they might have a few extra pounds, a wrinkle here and there. That is recognizable to many, I think. And also a bit moving of course.”
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