Cape Town – Award-winning choreographer and Idols SA judge Somizi Mhlongo took to Instagram over the weekend to send out an appreciation shout-out video to actress Khanyi Mbau over her latest scene on The Wife on ShowMax.
Khanyi recently set Twitter ablaze with a raunchy scene between her and fellow actor Mondli Makhoba.
As a result, the telenovela spotted number one on Twitter’s trending list for two consecutive days, followed by Khanyi’s name in the second position.
“Most people think that scene was too much and was too explicit. First of all, I would like to say to Khanyi; they killed it. That is called acting. Acting 101. Not a lot of people can go there,” said Somizi.
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Somizi said that Khanyi is growing as an actor and people need to cast their doubts on her away.
“Are you disappointed that Khanyi is really showing her gifts and talent, in terms of her craft? She is growing as an actor not because she did that sex scene but I can tell that Khanyi is really growing as an actress, and a lot of people doubted her, or some did. But Khanyi is an amazing actress,” he said.
Somizi said that those who criticised the explicit sex scene are “hypocrites”.
“The hypocrisy comes from where? Americans and Europeans been doing this and you said it was sex. Jada Pinkett did sex scenes. The list goes on. Well done Showmax for taking it there and showing South Africans can go there without it being pornographic. There was nothing pornographic there. It was a sex scene. That’s it,” said Somizi.
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Compiled by Odwa Shumi
