Mthatha-born actress Zikhona Sodlaka shared extra on her characters in The Wife and Blood Psalms in a Q&A.
ZIKHONA SODLAKA DUBBED A ‘FAN FAVOURITE’
Actress Zikhona Sodlaka has earned DStv Mzansi Viewers’ Choice Award and SAFTA nominations this 12 months for her fan-favourite function as Mandisa in The Wife. Now she’s additionally stealing scenes within the African fantasy epic Blood Psalms.
She performs Sithenjwa, the mistress of Senator Jabari of the mighty Great Nziwemabwe in Blood Psalms. When The Wife returns in November for Season three, count on Twitter to be singing Zikhona’s praises for Blood Psalms each Wednesday and The Wife each Thursday.
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Q&A WITH THE ACTRESS
Who’s your favorite Zulu brother?
My greatest little brother is barely Nqoba. The others are nice. They know their strains and stuff. But it’s like Abdul [Khoza] is the moon and everybody else is on Earth.
You have an incredible on-screen chemistry with Abdul as Nqoba. What’s he wish to work with?
First of all, thanks. What an unbelievable alternative it’s to work with such a gifted man. I feel our chemistry works due to how dynamic but comparable our characters are. The one is a feminine model of the opposite and vice versa. It then turns into fully unfair that we get to play a lot on set. He is the scene associate I didn’t know I wanted.
Viewers are questioning if there’ll ever be a Mandisa and Nqoba spin-off. Is this one thing you’ll contemplate?
I feel it’s a unbelievable thought! I feel the rationale why folks desire a spin-off is as a result of they do need to see that form of love. That imperfect identifiable form of love. The form of love that’s normally written about is fantasy. It’s like, ‘Oh, I wish I could be as pretty as…’ or ‘Oh, I wish I could cry as beautifully as…’ But with Nqoba and Mandisa, it’s very relatable. I feel the spin-off could be dope.
How does Mandisa differ from the roles you’ve performed earlier than?
I feel Mandisa might be essentially the most sincere character I’ve ever portrayed. I really like how extraordinarily courageous she is and how she’s unafraid of carrying her coronary heart on her sleeve. They don’t write characters like Mandisa on tv. Every girl needs to be good, neat and converse a sure means. Mandisa is the alternative of what ladies characters in South Africa are written as. But I do know a number of Mandisas in actual life.
Q&A WITH ZIKHONA SODLAKA ON ‘BLOOD PSALMS’
Tell us about your character in Blood Psalms compared?
Sithenjwa poses as a concubine however she’s greater than what meets the attention. Her complete mission is to proceed the legacy of her household and set issues proper by her sister and the gods.
It’s a really highly effective story that units ladies as epic highly effective creatures. It leans rather a lot in the direction of the instances of the Queendom and when the world was led by highly effective ladies. Just think about the immense energy of what the world was when Queens used to run the world.
How would you describe Blood Psalms?
I name it the African Game of Thrones as a result of it’s an epic. It’s a sport changer.
Blood Psalms appears action-packed. Did you get to do some stunts?
Yes, everybody was excited to be a part of all that kicking and preventing. It’s simply so cool. I really suppose that, personally, I’m leaning in the direction of that lifestyle: getting extra into motion and stunt work.
What do you hope the viewers will take away from Blood Psalms?
I hope folks shall be reminded a technique or one other of who they’re, and who black folks had been earlier than colonialism. It’s pre-everything! It is pre-colonialism, pre-borders, and it’s earlier than the division of the nations within the continent. It was free rein. People may journey from any a part of the continent to a different. I hope that we get that imaginative and prescient of ourselves whereas watching the sequence.
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