An in-depth interview with the hot actor “Big-Thongpoom Siripipat” on WOODY FM. He has been in the industry for a long time and has played every role in the entertainment industry. He revealed that he had a 20-year contract but was not happy? So miserable that he had to escape and become a monk. He once found love with a foreign woman on IG. He said that he doesn’t care if people think he talks incomprehensibly because he’s addicted to drugs.
How is life after we haven’t seen each other for so long?
Big Thongpoom: Always following the rules. Our behavior from morning until night is still the same. Before that, we were still in the company and the camp. Therefore, our behavior would be according to the rules. Wake up early to exercise, sit and read the script, read the script every day. Go to the show every day for 20 years without a day off and never stop. Never go on a trip, never go anywhere.
And are you happy in that world?
Big Thongpoom: Not happy (laughs), very miserable.
Then why did you continue to do it in the past?
Big Thongpoom: We did it because we still have a contract. There are adults that we still have to respect and follow the organization’s practices. And now the contract just expired.
How many years did you sign for or did you keep going?
Big Thongpoom: All the way up. In my entire 20 years in the company, I have 4 contracts with 2 companies. It’s like I was a soldier in the military for almost 20 years, but now I’m a mercenary soldier.
Have you been a ranger for a long time?
Big Thongpoom: I have been a ranger for about 2 years.
And the past 2 years?
Big Thongpoom: Ordained immediately, decided after everything was cleared up. Actually, during the transition period, there was a change in life from a domestic dog to a wolf. When the time comes for domestic dogs, we will have food, right? But for wolves, we don’t know that this is a forest, this is sunlight, so we come out.
What do we have to face when we come out?
Big Thongpoom: But it’s happy. Asking what we have to face, we have to face money that we don’t get, we have to accept benefits that we don’t create, we have to accept problems that we didn’t create in order to end it. There are problems of responsibility, etc. Sometimes we get 20,000 to 20,000, or 10,000 to 10,000. Sometimes we go to the event and say we don’t have any. It’s the nature of life. I think there are many people who have encountered this, but they may be at a point where they can’t come out and talk.
Do you have a manager?
Big Thongpoom: It’s more comfortable not to have one because if you do, there will be problems. The more subordinates or people you have, the more responsibility you have. The cost of paying them, if it’s your boss, we have to pay more, but the amount of work is the same. Each organization is different. We can make decisions by ourselves.
How long did you ordain?
Big Thongpoom: A long time. Actually, I will ordain continuously. At first, I was sitting still, then I walked in and shaved my head. The monk asked if I would ordain, so I ordained and shaved right then and there. My parents didn’t even know. I just stayed. The monk wanted me to continue serving Buddhism, so I stayed. He took me to Wat Weluwan to stay in Kanchanaburi for a day. He took me to see what it was like. This is the place I will be staying. It’s a battlefield. Many people think that I am running away to find happiness. It’s not. In fact, the peaceful happiness in the temple is not peaceful. We have to stay without sleep and have many duties to do every day.
Everything has been played, all roles have been played?
Big Thongpoom: Everything has been played, all roles have been played, all movies, all dramas, all channels, supporting roles, villains, heroes, supporting characters, I’ve played all the gay series.
What’s next for Big Thongpoom’s life?
Big Thongpoom: No, because we don’t know everything. Whatever happens, happens, because we’ve done everything.
How has your heart been in the past 10 years? Do you have a girlfriend?
Big Thongpoom: Peaceful and calm, no girlfriend. I just started having one when we had a problem. Do you know what I did? I swiped through Instagram and met a foreigner and we talked. The good thing is that he didn’t know I was a celebrity. I didn’t think we would become a couple. I talked to him and asked if we wanted to go out for dinner. We went to eat moo kata because I was tired from all the crazy stories that no one understood. So we visited each other often for about a month. I felt that this was all I needed in my life, so that was okay. He didn’t want to go back to America. He wanted to stay in Thailand, so I asked him if he wanted to be my girlfriend. We were a couple. Okay, no problem. In a short while, when he came to stay with me, he didn’t have any work because all the news came out. I didn’t have anything to eat, so I turned to him. I have no money. You have to go back. In the end, he had to go back to America. That was before I became a monk.
In the past, people thought that Big couldn’t talk properly because he was addicted to drugs. But today, what I hear is a completely different story. Have you ever heard that?
Big Thongpoom: I’ve heard it before. It’s just words. I don’t think about it. I always say that when my younger siblings come to ask me when they’re suffering, they call me a cockroach. But did I grow wings? I’m still a person. People become real because of what we do. And we receive the consequences of that.
