wtFOCK cast & crew facts
Femke Van der Steen (Jana) has been together with Jonathan Michiels (Viktor) for more than two years now.
Lars Brinkman (Milan) is part of the LGBT+ community and performs in theatre pieces involving the community as well as gender diversity.
Cassandra Krols (Marie) and Maarten Cop (Luka) were dating in real life, when they played a couple in S1. According to their insta, they split up.
Nathan Naenen (Senne) was already mildly known for a role in the Flemish soap ‘Familie’. He also played minor roles in series like ‘Dubbelspel’, ‘Altijd Prijs’ and the LGBT movie ‘North Sea Texas’.
Nora Dari (Yasmina) was a field reporter for the radio program ‘Generation Stronger’ (Red Nose Day 2019). She interviewed different teens and activists about the pressure of being a teenager nowadays. In the past, she played a minor role in the movie ‘Patser’, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilal Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) and the movie ‘Ghost Tropic’, viewed at Cannes filmfestival.
Maarten Cop (Luka) didn’t reprise his role in wtFOCK for season 3, because he’s busy shooting the kids tv series ‘Hoodie’, a tale of a modern day Robin Hood fighting criminals with parkour skills. A discipline Maarten already mastered very well (according to his insta).
A huge part of the cast studies/studied at film and art colleges: Nathan Naenen, Femke Van der Steen, Willem Herbots, … However, Veerle Dejaeger (Zoë) is enrolled at a Brussels’ uni for commercial engineering.
Noa Tambwe Kabati (Moyo) is a dancer, choreographer and dance workshop teacher in his spare time. He is/was part of different dance crews focusing on urban, hiphop and afrohouse dance styles.
Writer Bram Renders has experience with creating realistic, teen tv shows. In fact, his uni thesis project has been adapted as one of the first youth series on the Flemish children channel. ‘W817′ was controversial and way ahead of its time in the 90s. It dealt with topics like drugs, sex, body image, sexism, aids, suicide, mental health, LGBT+, … It’s still airing on the channel today, as it still holds up perfectly.
