Jaakko Loukkola, the actor of Backpack-Hepu who became known from Pikku Kakkonen’s Adventure Machine program, died unexpectedly on Monday.
Actor Jaakko Loukkola died suddenly on Monday, June 5. He was 35 years old when he died.
Loukkola became famous especially for the children’s program Pikku Kakkonen Adventure machine– program’s Backpack-Heppuna.
Little Kakkonen’s executive producer Teija Ryösa tells that An adventure machine the episodes will remain in Yle Areena as they are.
“Nothing that has already been published will be deleted, and the publication plan will not be changed.”
Robbery says that there is also an unpublished series in the works in which Loukkola starred.
As for him, the filming was completed in time, and the series is in the post-processing stage. The future of the series is still open.
“We are constantly in conversation with Jaako’s family,” says Ryösä.
“We will have further discussions about publishing the series when the time is right. After getting used to it a bit.”
Producer Ryösä emphasizes that the character of Backpack-Hepu will not be removed from Pikku Kakkonen’s repertoire under any circumstances.
“It used to be like that Veijo Pasanen also for Pelle Hermann, who acted. In the same way, Backpack-Heppu will survive.”
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