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Film & TV 2019

"Really, eleven? That's my lucky number."

Janusz Chabior in glasses and a striped shirt, holding a small black dog, against a dark background
Janusz Chabior with his dog Batman, 2012. Photo: Robert Pałka, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Janusz Chabior is the Polish actor with the unforgettable face who tends to play morally doubtful men: a colonel in Służby specjalne, a head of a hospital ward in Botoks, a gangster called Ciągły in Pitbull. The director Patryk Vega keeps casting him. When a journalist pointed out that Chabior had by then appeared in eleven of Vega’s productions, the actor was surprised.

“Really, eleven? That’s my lucky number.”

He added that only a fool would turn down the roles Vega kept offering him.

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