“He didn’t have any shoes to begin with, and he worked himself up to be a top chef.” “He moved to the UK when he was 13 with nothing, his dad just put him on a boat to send money back,” he says. The comic describes him as the “funniest singular thing in the world”, a man who went “on a march for Israeli women’s rights in France aged 67 because he met a guy in the gym who was really into it”. Stath’s eccentric father, Vasos (played by Christos Stergioglou of the cult film Dogtooth), is loosely based on Demetriou’s. Making the show “has reattached me to that culture in quite a nice way”. “It was part of my identity that I didn’t really know what to do with, because stereotypes about that culture weren’t reflective of who I was,” he explains. Demetriou also has that Greek Cypriot heritage. While Stath is the perfect vehicle for his creator’s comic ticks – awkward intonation and malapropisms slang and the mangling of old-fashioned sayings – he’s more than a funny foreign caricature. he moved to England when he was about 12, and he was pinging between Greece and Cyprus as a kid.” My dad went on a march for Israeli women's rights because he met a man in the gym who was really into it “ ‘Flat’ is an inherently British, mundane word – it’s onomatopoeia.” As his name and accent suggest, however, Stath has “a weird mixed identity.
“We wanted the whole thing to feel a bit grotty,” explains Demetriou. People have to live in shit flats, they just have to, because of the price of flats.” There’s something stubbornly English about Stath Lets Flats. “Stath doesn’t have to do anything to let the flats. “It’s basically pointing at stuff and saying what it is,” he says. A wannabe wideboy, Stath is kitted out like a member of Blazin’ Squad at a wedding – slim-fitting suit, oversized diamante earring – while angling to take over from his soon-to-retire father.Īt a time when the London property market is a joke in itself, playing an estate agent hasn’t given Demetriou a respect for the profession. Stath Lets Flats centres on Demetriou’s incompetent lettings agent and his colleagues at family firm Michael & Eagle. ‘The fact that I don’t think it’s diabolical is a huge achievement for me’ … the cast of Stath Lets Flats, with Demetriou’s sister Natasia third right.
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