TV Nine people for whom 2018 a particular year was. Joris Hessels (38) portrays them in ‘The Weekends’, starting this week on Canvas. Kwétsbare people, that Joris approaches with the characteristic warmth and understanding that we used from him since ‘Radio Gaga’. But for him, too, was 2018, not a year like any other, he tells in All.
Joris came over the past year, monthly along with nine people who all look back on a particular, 2018. All they were given a camera to take home to their daily life to filming, and during their weekends in the wine castle of Haksberg in Tielt-Winge they look back on their experiences.
So there is Kris, who last year his wife lost to cancer, and three weeks after her death, himself diagnosed with cancer. Antonio was very young, demented, Aude is a single mother and wants a sibling for Scout. Jay wants to break in the hiphopwereld. Jo has parkinson’s and left at the beginning of this year, a neurostimulator implantation in the hope of his life to win back. Lut is retiring, the Syrian refugee, Omar wants his diploma and transman Robin started with a hormone therapy.
