Actor Adrian Paul of Highlander: “I Wish People Had Told Me That Fame Doesn’t Last”

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
Published in
5 min readMar 11, 2018

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I wish somebody had told me the actors were products. Products that had a shelf life. That the business is partly talent and partly about your value to the market and that is especially true today. I learned that through the frustrations of going up for roles that were denied not because I wasn’t right for the role, but because someone else had better social media presence.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Adrian Paul who is best known for being the international star of Highlander the series, having appeared in over 35 films and 200 hours of television.

He created his own charity in 1997 The Peace Fund (Protect Educate Aid Children Everyday) that has partnered with, or worked in countries such as the United States, Thailand, Cambodia, Haiti, Romania, Hungary, Dominican Republic, El Salvador and England. Adrian also has aired over 300 hours of his own talk show Peace Fund Radio, which talks to organizations, celebrities and the public about the issues and the solution to the myriad of problems facing our children today. Currently

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator