“This was kind of the start of my dream,” says Patrick about his role in the soap. “You always have a bit of an idea of what it’s like to finally practice the profession you want, but I underestimated what is involved. It’s strange that you are suddenly recognized on the street.”
The actor was in the end one year GTST to see. “I was just fired.” He tells William that that choice had to do with his own struggles around his sexuality, which was going on at that time. “They eventually wanted the character I played, Morris, to be a gay boy. I was still really in the closet and said, ‘I don’t want that. I don’t dare and I can’t. Nobody sees that difference and then I am ‘the gay’, I cannot. “
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So, in consultation with the makers of the soap, he threw in the towel for good. Patrick: “That was a very painful and difficult moment. Also because I gave up everything in Rijnsbergen to chase my dream and I was living it. And this point – which is a sensitive point – was the hitch in the future. cable. That’s why I lost my dream job. “
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Meerdijk has recently lost two more residents: Lucas and Tiffy, or Ferry Doedens (30) and Cecilia Adorée (29), have put their things in the hallway, because they are leaving Good times Bad Times forever. Although … Of course you never know for sure with a soap. They talk about it in the video below:
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