Manaka Ranaka spoke to Azania Mosaka on Tuesday, 16 October 2018, about not liking the characters she plays, the difficulty of finding work as a female performer and her love life.
Actress Manaka Ranaka is mostly known by South African audiences as Lucy Diale from Generations: The Legacy. What her fans may be unaware of, however, is that she dislikes her character, despite earning a living from performing her daily.
Ranaka was invited to join Azania Mosaka on the Real Talk couch on Tuesday, 16 October. During her interview, she spoke about how she differs from Lucy, the difficulties she has encountered as a female South African performance artist and her love life.
Here is summary of what Ranaka had to say on these topics:
“I am different from Lucy, her character bothers me a lot and I don’t enjoy it. I am Lucy when I am on set and once the director says cut, I am Manaka,” she admitted to Mosaka.
She then spoke candidly on the realities of the South African television industry in the past, saying “Acting is work, like a lawyer or a doctor. As for myself, I was not taught to get into character, but one needs to go for acting classes and find an agency. Back then the film industry was stifled for women, women were sexually assaulted to get roles and if we are to take our mothers [into] the industry to talk, they will say a lot of the things that happened back then.”
Lastly, she opened up to Mosaka about her failed relationships and the fact that she thinks that she will never get married. “I was not born to get married, I was born to breathe. A lot of men are not loyal. I only date and I date quite a lot,” she revealed. “Men don’t want to be loyal and I recently got dumped coming from a trip.”
Tarryn Jameson
t.jameson@politicalanalysis.co.za
