Since 1994, when the actor Jan Linnebjerg got his big break in the role as the goblin Pyrus in TV2’s julekalender ‘Great Christmas’, it has been hard to think of Jan Linnebjerg without also thinking of Pyrus.
And although it is gradually long ago that the 59-year-old actor has starred in julekalenderne about the cheeky teenagenisse on the tv, then Jan Linnebjerg each year, drawn in the red kaskethue and the iconic nissetøj to performing for the happy children around in the Danish malls.
Next year the elf Pyrus 25-year anniversary, but it means, according to Jan Linnebjerg also most likely farewell to the beloved pixie. For always.
It tells the Jan Linnebjerg to the DR in Kulturmagasinet ‘Zest’.
– It is damn well weird to be playing a 19-year-old and then be 60, but I think it goes very well, says the actor, who, however, predicts that the Pyrus only has a single year left to live.
– Yes, or when he has 25-year anniversary, so it may well be that we in one way or another to see if we are not able to get rounded it. But whether it will be with a great show, or it will be a humane killing in the backyard, I don’t know, he says in the DR program.
Jan Linnebjerg is especially known as Pyrus in TV2’s julekalendere about the cheeky pixie. Photo: TV2
Even though Jan Linnebjerg has enjoyed giving the gas as Pyrus in all sorts of Danish malls, so he believes that the time has come to, that it will soon have an end.
– I have made a nice living with him, and of him. I have created my life, but I can’t be at the in and ever, saith the Jan Linnebjerg.
In an interview with Ekstra Bladet, Jan Linnebjerg former frankly told, that the role of Pyrus have created limitations in his career as an actor.
– I was upset when I first heard why there was far from telephone calls with job offers. Until then, I had actually not really thought that there was a correlation between Pyrus and the silent telephone, for there were so many actors with long periods of unemployment. But then I got referred to: ‘No, Linnebjerg we can not use. We can’t have a fairy running around on set,’ he said at the time.
I have always considered myself to be a o.k. actor, but I had to note that it was not me that was in all the tv-series.
It is soon the end of to appear in the various malls and to the juletræsfester. Photo: Mogens Flindt
Back in July of this year told Jan Linnebjerg in an honest posting on Facebook that he is an alcoholic, and that he has long struggled to come out of his alcohol abuse.
‘I’m not embarrassed or ashamed to admit that I am an alcoholic. Unfortunately, it is a disease that comes creeping and is incurable, but can be done something about it’, he wrote, among other things.
the Role of Pyrus has in many ways limited Jan Linnebjerg. Photo: Søren Hartvig/TV2
In the advertisement, he told also that he stood to lose the licence because he had previously run in the affected state.
‘It’s that I have run the car in the affected state, it is inexcusable, and I lay me down flat and take the penalty. Fortunately, there was nothing. I thank the higher powers’, it said in the advertisement.
well-Known Pyrus derailed my acting-career
even Though Jan Linnebjerg has struggled with alcohol abuse, so he has served us well in everyday life, he seems.
– I works fine in it daily. I fit my golf course in Richardson and have also cared for my jobs as an actor without touching a drop, but a few years ago it dawned on me that I have a problem with alcohol – or rather, if I do not get alcohol. After a few months sober I get withdrawal symptoms. I get the nausea and suffering of self-hatred and a feeling that the whole thing is just very. The soul stands, and flapping, he has earlier told in an interview with the See and Hear.
