Codin Maticiuc: Am în plus bani, timp și energie și le donez pe toate trei

Actor. Screenwriter. Influencer. Philanthropist. Entrepreneur. Codin Maticiuc, a man who takes on his past without a filter and his present without apologies. "I'm famous for the wrong reasons," he says directly. "Parties, women, drinking - drugs never existed for me. Then I took this fame and started putting it to work." From the image of "king of Dorobanti" to the man who renovates public hospitals with private money and builds, from scratch, a pediatric psychiatric hospital. From the label of "ready money boy" to the obsession with producing more good than he consumed privileges. "I was a kid with ready money, I was a boy with ready money, now I'm an old man with ready money. Everything is about ready money." And he too: "I'll be an old man with ready money until I've produced more money than I've ever spent." Over dinner, we talk about the beginnings: – The law chosen “as if in a perfect beizadea” – the moment when he was asked, before the first film: “How much money do you want to lose?” – “100,000 euros, that’s about all I have.” – the harsh revelation: “People with money only talk about art, and people in the art world only talk about money.” Today he is “in the film world” – producing, writing and acting. But he is also in the NGO world: 49 renovated hospital wards and a major project under construction. But there is one moment that changed everything. “702 was the first door I opened in Fundeni. It was Christmas. I was accompanied by Santa Claus. And there was a little girl there who I couldn’t get to smile at all. She was in pain, with purple lips. I later found out her name was Lăcrămioara. In her memory, I renovate hospitals today.” We ask him if the stories of sick children don't break his heart, as he is a father of 3. "I hold my tears back a little, so I don't cry on TV." About balance, he says simply and self-deprecatingly: "I'm like a circus performer trying to keep some balls in the air. And every now and then someone comes along and says: take this ball too. Family, hospitals, marketing, movies... and everyone is a little dissatisfied with how much time I give them." About responsibility: "I believe that we are obligated to do good in direct proportion to the good in our lives." "I have extra money, time and energy and I donate all three." We also put his vulnerabilities on the table: relationship with his diplomat and businessman father money earned on his own press labels fame, luck, mistakes. A conversation about privilege, guilt, public image and moral duty. About how you transform a reputation built on excesses into a tool for real construction. About what remains when you take the lights out of the club and turn on the neon in a hospital ward.