One of the latest public explanations of Ion Iliescu was the one related to the famous interview he gave to Playboy. Iliescu appeared in slippers, in front of a poster with Marilyn Monroe. “At nudity”
Tired to be called “Bolshevik” even after completing the third term of president, Ion Iliescu gave in 2006 an interview to the Romanian edition of the magazine “Playboy”. The one who took him was the writer Dan Silviu Boerescu, editor-in-chief of the magazine. Ion Iliescu died on Tuesday, at the age of 95.
- “At nudity, I refer like any normal man … The eros is an essential component of human nature. Who does not believe this, or is hypocritical, or has a problem!” – Ion Iliescu, response for Playboy.
Before hospitalization and the death that followed, Ion Iliescu, 95, recalled, in a dialogue with Ionuț Vulpescu, several things that he had never talked about. Among them, the politician referred to the “glossy” time in his life, one that surprised the Romanian society.
An extremely discreet character with his life and his preferences, Iliescu gave, in 2006, an interview to the Romanian edition of the well -known Playboy magazine.
The interview, on 8 pages, was published in the Christmas edition of 2006. In magazines, the Christmas edition was the most consistent and considered the most important number of the year.
“Playboy” was edited by the MediaPro press trust, founded by Adrian Sârbu, who also created Pro TV. Chief editor at “Playboy” was Dan Silviu Boerescu, a well-known writer and editor.
Boerescu is the one who interviewed Ion Iliescu, even in the headquarters on Athens Street where Iliescu was preparing a PSD congress, as the journalist for Thought would tell.
Ion Iliescu and Marilyn Monroe. “Two iconic smiles, for Cârcotas”
“How did you agree to give the famous Playboy interview?”, Recently asked, before hospitalization, Ionuț Vulpescu on Ion Iliescu. He asked him to explain the moment.
“There was a time in Romania where even these publications, cheesyas they are told, they had their audience and they were in the print. It was a magazine dedicated to the beautiful sex, but it did not make a cultural production around a certain type of visual imaginary, specific to the magazine profile. It seems strange, but in the pages of that magazine there were ideas, and they were not empty of content, ”said the former president.
“I also remember now that among the photos selected for the interview was a picture with me in slippers, as was conditioned by the visit to the museum, near the portrait of Marilyn Monroe. Two iconic smiles,” Iliescu detailed.
“In addition, I was a” player “, which is a player,” boy “I wasn't much, and maybe that made the experience interesting to the public,” he said. “Now I do not know why some have imagined that I am a pudibond or, worse, that I have no idea of” playboy “, I said and then, I knew about” playboy “as I knew about capitalism …”.
Iliescu: John Kenneth Galbraith also interviewed in Playboy
The former president remembered that “the questions were more than decent, were provocative in the political common sense.”
Iliescu also said he knew that a great American economist had done the same thing, had given an interview for “Playboy”.
“One of my favorite authors, John Kenneth Galbraith, had once given an interview to the American edition” Playboy “; only in the Mioritic space seemed something curious as a scientist or a political one to give an interview.”
“I congratulate myself on the interview, I set a standard, a pity that the press in the print did not resist the standard … I remember there were many jokes at that time because my interview in the Romanian edition appeared simultaneously with that of Gorbachev in the Hungarian edition. More progressions than some are about six to seven younger decades, ”concluded Ion Iliescu.
