Nunu Khumalo

“Art, to me, is what oxygen is to humans. Without art, I’d be living and existing but not alive”

“You have to believe and trust in yourself and your craft. Never mess up your opportunity, show up and deliver”

“Also, when you walk into your workplace, leave all your problems and emotions at the doorstep and bring only your polite character and personality.”

“I’ve learnt to always be ready because a dream can happen in five minutes just from an audition and getting casted”

“People can say what they want, they can suggest and even strongly suggest, but at the end of the day if I choose to go with what they suggest and I live like that then I’ll be the one living like that, not them”

“I rarely got it right the first time. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t know why they were telling me to say things that weren’t true. The teachers would try convincing me and told me it was just acting but I didn’t know what was going on. It took me a while but every year I was in the plays and that’s when I started getting familiar with acting”

“didn’t go to school for acting and I’ve never had a lesson in my life but when I was in primary and high school I was in all the plays. In Grade 9, when I was supposed to choose subjects, I wanted to take Drama but my parents were like ‘No honey, we are not paying for you to play games on a stage”

“At times, I cried because I knew about poverty but when I experienced it for the first time, it became real. During takes and getting my make-up done I’d literally just start crying because the story felt so real.”

“Soul City was an eye-opener because before we started shooting I had never been in a shack before”

“As a survivor of GBV, I accept that telling these stories is a part of my ministry and that it’s not something I have to erase after I engage in the material”

“It’s important for us to see ourselves reflected in the entertainment industry, films, series and documentaries we watch and the books we read”

“I don’t shed anything. It’s more of a case of incorporating all my life’s realities into the picture and finding a way to accept the multiple truths that exist for me”

“I love adventure, risk and the opportunity to learn something new about myself and the world I live in”

“That's how I got my first draw in this business. You have to stay ready to be called up any time. It happens quite a lot, that is the spontaneity of the business”

“I guess they saw the tape from 2014 and remembered me. It was sort of a call back. I just did two very light scenes and was in. Scandal! is one of the shows that I've always wanted to be part of”

“Some just watch to be on the look out for the next pretty girl. It's not a bad thing. I'm getting more following on social media. It's nice to be appreciated”

“No, personally I don't think I'm the sexiest but it's a compliment. I don't know what to say, these are overpowering comments. I'm meant to take the character to greater heights and that's exactly what I'm doing”