The actors of Klokhuis emotionally greet Gijs de Lange: 'Bye campfires'

The creators of the NTR youth program The center they greeted their colleague Gijs de Lange, who passed away last May at the age of 65. Today’s broadcast showed how his character Ben Kokkelman, the head of Het Klokhuis Kantoor, was suddenly gone, much to the chagrin of the other characters.

In the episode, the characters Leonoor, Timo and Wouter unknowingly break into the office where the chaotic characters have been making jokes for years. They have Ben’s mail, which suddenly seems to be gone. “I’m good at everything, he’s well known. There’s only one thing I can’t do: say goodbye, “the actors take turns aloud. The boss seems to have quit his job.” You have to stop at the climax. But for me every episode of Klokhuis was a highlight. “, it is read. “Do better without me, my leadership is needed elsewhere.”

Because the illness was so short, the creators of Klokhuis De Lange couldn’t have written from the series nicely after his death. ,, We wanted to do it, because he was a well-known figure to so many viewers. But that was no longer possible, “Jurrian van Dongen said after his death in May. In recent months, De Lange has appeared in reruns of the most recent recorded episodes of the children’s show.” Meanwhile, we are thinking about how to tell goodbye to his character in a beautiful way in the new broadcasts “.

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That beautiful goodbye has arrived, as it turns out when the actors keep reading the letter. “I’ll probably be the next Prime Minister. Or I go to sad places to make people laugh. (…) This is the meaning of life. Make people laugh. Or at least don’t make anyone cry. So I wouldn’t cry for long because I’m gone, “continues the letter.” I can’t say goodbye. I prefer to go to a party quietly. Every moment with me was a party. Goodbye bonfire in the winter night of my life ”, read the actors in unison.

Ben left a present in his office. A life size portrait of the actor. When Wouter then asks where Ben would go, Leonoor confidently replies: “Make people laugh somewhere.”