Zarelda de Bruin on her breakout debut role in ‘Spooksoeker’
Rising star Zarelda de Bruin opens up about her breakout role as Melissa in Showmax’s Afrikaans series ‘Spooksoeker’.
17-year-old actress Zarelda de Bruin is a grade 11 student at Durbanville High School in Cape Town, who got her debut role in Spooksoeker.
ZARELDA DE BRUIN: BREAKOUT ROLE
The Spooksoeker actress Zarelda de Bruin reveals to Showmax how she landed her role in the Afrikaans series.
De Bruin says this is her very first role, and also her very first time auditioning for anything.
“When I got the role, I hadn’t even been signed to an agency yet. But everything fell into place so perfectly. I’m still so surprised how everything worked out for me. This role was my first of everything.”
She also says her acting coach and the head of the culture department at her school, Delia Pereira, asked her if she would be interested in auditioning for a Showmax series.
“I didn’t know what it was about. I only received a description of the character, Melissa. I didn’t know how the audition process worked either. But she helped me to record an audition tape and sent it through on my behalf.”
The young actress describes her character as the typical girl-next-door character.
“She’s very smart and she’s a journalist, so she notices things that others miss. She is also very interested in things that others wouldn’t even think twice about. “
BACKGROUND OF ‘SPOOKSOEKER’
The Afrikaans series Spooksoeker follows Warno (Rico Immelman), an ordinary 15-year-old boy, who discovers that he has the extraordinary ability to see ghosts, and to get rid of them.
Immelman stars opposite Joshwin Dyson and Zarelda de Bruin who portray his friends Allies and Melissa.
The actor (Rico Immelman) is a 17-year-old Grade 11 pupil from Noordheuwel High School in Krugersdorp in Gauteng.
He’s starred in productions such as The First Last Tour as well as the kykNET show, Die fantastiese verdwyning van Charlie Prins.
The show is based on the best-selling young adult novel of the same name by multi-award-winning author François Bloemhof.
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