Greek Australian actor and comedian Jordan Raskopoulos has called on the public to vote for him in the award for Most Popular Actor in this year’s Logies in order to deliver a mocking acceptance speech.
The actor who plays a hacker in the telemovie Underground: The Julian Assange Story, has asked the general public via an online forum to help him win the award.
The 30-year-old said if he wins, he has even offered to read lines written by voters in his acceptance speech.
“This is an opportunity to get a man from the internet onto live television to mock an Australian institution (and potentially ruin my career),” he wrote in online forum something awful.
“The Logie awards are Australia’s equivalent of the Emmys. They’re our annual television awards, they’re utterly terrible and, unlike the Emmys, the big awards are decided by public vote.”
Raskopoulos is one of 103 actors in contention for the Most Popular Actor category short-list, to be announced in March.
“If I win it will definitely be one of the greatest, weirdest speeches ever,” Raskopoulos was quoted by the Herald Sun as saying.
Greek Australian actor George Hourvadas has also been nominated for Most Popular Actor for his portrayal of Nick ‘Carbo’ Karandonis in Packed to the Rafters. Ada Nicodemou is up for Most Popular Actress for playing Leah Patterson-Baker in Home And Away. Costas Georgiadis from Gardening Australia is up for Most Popular Presenter, alongside MasterChef Australia’s George Calombaris and Michael Tomalaris for presenting of the 2012 Tour de France.