Improv, intimacy and striking gold: Stars of Showmax's Wyfie on filming the 'daring' Afrikaans show

08 Apr

Gabi Zietsman

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Beáta Bena Green and Mienke Ehlers in Wyfie. (Homebrew Films)

Showmax's part telenovela, part prestige Afrikaans series Wyfie is unique in that it captures a previously neglected audience segment of Afrikaans entertainment - the youth who aren't quite children anymore but also aren't adults yet. As a South African show, it also provides a local experience of student culture in a sea of American campus stories that tend to dominate streaming narratives.

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