As a child, he wanted to be an architect, then he was accepted to the acting school, and the rest is history. In this way, he designed three houses, and as an actor he spent more than sixty years on the field, and has now become a true living legend. Kossuth Prize winner Gábor Koncz told Kultúrnemzet about the past decades.
When he was a teenager, he recited the National Anthem for the first time in front of the Mezőkereszets council house on March 15, wearing shorts. He was very cold, but he didn't care, he was happy that he could recite it, because he knew that he won the competition with this, and that he would have something to do with this track. As it turned out, he recited the Petőfi poem on the steps of the National Museum for twenty-five years after arriving in Pest.
Gábor Koncz revealed in the Kultúrnemzet podcast,
although his parents would have liked him to become a priest or a doctor, he wanted to be an architect. "Unfortunately, I was admitted to the acting school," he said jokingly, adding that, unfortunately, he was unable to do what he dreamed of doing as a child: designing houses. True, he designed three of them this way, including his current home.
He was still in college when he started filming. The momentum didn't let up later either, he made one film after another, there was a year in which he made nine. Moreover, not just anyone, Zoltán Fábri, Zoltán Várkonyi, Otto Ádám - from whom he learned a lot, he owes a lot to them.
The acting legend also recalled stories he had never heard during the conversation, told how he confessed to his father that he would become an actor, how he courted and set up a maypole for one of his first loves and what it was like behind the scenes of a film shoot with Zoltán Fábri.
Source: Hungarian Nation
Cover photo: Gábor Koncz (Photo: MW)
