Kim Engelbrecht on Working With Iain Glen on Reyka
Thando Thabethe: I think I read somewhere that you said meeting Iain Glen was, you got, you were a little bit starstruck the first time you met him. What was it like playing with him as Speelman?
Kim Engelbrecht: I think at the beginning anybody would be starstruck! You know everybody watched Game of Thrones and for this actor and he’s all the way overseas and how he’s in South Africa. You know I think you just become like a little bit of a child when you meet somebody that you’ve watched for so many seasons on TV, you know. And then eventually working with him, it was, it was just so lovely, you know? He kind of like — I found out everything about him like his life, his career, I was just really fascinated with him. Also I was really fascinated with his drive and his ability to continue acting for so many years and still be so immersed and so like 100% available when he was able to do these scenes. I asked him I remember, on our last day, like why does he — [to TT] Okay what do you want to ask, what do you want to say?
Thando Thabethe: No, continue, continue! [Laughter]
Kim Engelbrecht: Yeah I was asking him like how does he keep doing it? It was an intense scene and he was on the — I don’t want to give anything away but it was an intense heavy physical scene and I was like why do you keep doing this? Like, you know what I mean, you’re a respectable person, why do you put yourself through this? Like it’s emotional torture, it’s draining!
Thando Thabethe: What was his answer?
Kim Engelbrecht: He was saying — he was basically in a nutshell saying that everybody was there for a reason. The lighting department spent all of those hours designing it, the directors they’re perfecting everything, the writer spent years to write it, and all you need to do is you need to arrive. It’s all kind of like, you know, for you.
Thando Thabethe: It’s a show coming together for you and for you to perform. He was really down to earth, I mean on stage I saw him walking just barefoot, just randomly walking barefoot. And you’d think somebody of his stature would behave differently, and it was beautiful to watch.
Source: 947 Joburg (28 August 2021)
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