Biography
Romain Angeveld is a Belgian actor especially known for the series "Detox" and as the presenter of the Belgian TV channel "Studio 100 TV".
Born the 6th of November 1990 in Romania, right after Ceausescu's dictatorship, with serious lung and liver diseases, I should never have survived.
But life creates miracles some times and destiny sent a crazy Belgian woman to bring me to a safe place I would soon call home.
As you can imagine, my parents have always been very protective with me, especially my mother (no shit Sherlock).
Except for the fact that, as far as I can remember, I've always wanted to become an actor, to play, to make people laugh and cry, to make them dream. The 7th art has guided me in my darkest times and I wanted to give that back to the world.
But I was scared. A fear transmitted by my parents and reinforced by society.
So, I did what I had to do to please them. Primary school, then secondary, then University. With always the idea that it would only be useful if plan A didn't work.
But it wasn't enough. Of course, it wasn't. For plan A, come back later. I had to earn my life!
Drama school? F*** off! Getting started as a full-time actor? F*** off! And every time I went shooting something, I heard a nice cheering sentence like "You're doing your bullshit again? When do you work? It is worth nothing!"
So, I took a job I didn't like. And a second one. And a third one. I had a house, a car, a kitten (actually love that bitch but don't tell her) and a wonderful girl (actually love that bitch but don't tell her) Long story short, everything I needed to be happy, in theory.
I actually liked my last job: I had a lot of money and good reputation. Until they fired me. He said: « Your work is perfect but you don't have the spirit". I understood: "Go f*** yourself".
More than that, I understood that you could actually fail at something you don't like. So did all the workers who lost their so-called hyper secure jobs. And what about the victims of terrorist attacks that happened in places where I walk nearly every day? Damn, life is short... I couldn't say better.
One day, they told me my dad had cancer. One day he was fine, 3 months later he was gone. The day before he died, I had the shortest and most beautiful conversation I'd ever had with that man. He said he was proud and against all odds, he made me promise only one thing: to find out what I really wanted to do in life and then to do whatever was possible to get there. He didn't talk about security, money or anything.
He told me to find out who I was and to fulfill my destiny.
I finally dared to stop lying to myself. I finally stopped making choices because of fear. Because my inner child has always been right.
Was I afraid? Damn I'm still terrified! But that fear doesn't matter because I know I'm going where I want.
So now, I'm accomplishing my destiny.
I am an actor to exist to the fullest.
And you, when do you leave your mask?
