Wog boys Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo are big in Mykonos.
It’s been a decade since The Wog Boy. What was the hold up with this sequel, The Kings of Mykonos?
Vince: We had to wait for the technology. It’s like
Avatar.
Nick: People don’t realise but movies take a long time to make.
I started working on a script about Mykonos a while ago. I’ve been going there every year since the early ’90s. I met this guy who boasted that he’d slept with 43 women in one summer and he became the character Pierluigi.
Then I noticed a lot of people coming to Mykonos were second- and third-generation kids who
were going to visit their parents' birthplace, but they couldn’t speak Greek and didn’t really understand the culture. So I started developing a film based on that culture clash.
How long have you two blokes known each other?
Nick: We met in 1985. We met in the carpark at VCA [Victorian College of the Arts]. We were the only two drama students with cars. I had a 2L Celica with wire spoke wheels. It was red and had Celica stickers on the side. The black louvres were my pride and joy.
I don’t know what the f–k louvres do, but it was beautiful, man.
Vince: I had a car
bra on mine — that thing you put over the hood.
Nick: When I first met him, he had a station wagon, and I asked, “What are you driving?” And he says, “It’s not mine, man. It’s my dad’s car. I’ve got a V8 at home but I don’t take it out.” I thought, “This guy’s as big a wog as me. We’re gonna get along great.”
What do you reckon’s the best thing about being a wog?
Vince: The food.
Nick: Souvlaki King always gives me a free yeeros. Actually, since it’s been so long since the first film, they charge me four dollars now. But he said if the second movie’s any good, we’re back to freebies.
Nick: I’ve always had free
pizzas at my local. I seriously don’t pay for food in Carlton.
Vince: That’s because people think he’s a gangster.
You were in the first season of Underbelly, Vince. Who’s got the better underworld figures — Sydney or Melbourne?
Vince: Melbourne’s got much better gangsters. The ones in Sydney are shit. Put a Sydney guy against Alphonse [Gangitano, his
Underbelly character] anytime.
Can you give our readers a tip for picking up chicks?
Vince: Be yourself.
Nick: Go to Mykonos. There are heaps of girls there.
Vince: Hygiene is very important.
How about a style tip?
Nick: Vince can handle this. He was
GQ’s Most Stylish Man of the Year.
Vince: For
The Kings of Mykonos, the script meetings went for about 15 minutes — the costume meetings went for an hour and a half.
Nick: But I still ended up looking like shit. I’m wearing thongs and shorts with f–kin’ holes in them.
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