Rebecca Malope says she is finding it difficult to fulfill her acting dreams because she’s ‘too expensive’
Award-winning Gospel singer Rebecca Malope speaking to DRUM‚ opened up about her obstacles preventing her from fully breaking into the acting industry — one of them being the fact that she comes at a very high price.
“I love acting‚ but people don’t hire me because they say I am too expensive.”
And while she often gets approached for TV roles by producers‚ she admitted that directors struggle with separating her from her ‘gospel heavyweight’ label whenever she auditions for an acting role.
“It’s hard for directors to see me as anything other than Rebecca the singer, so people actually burst out laughing when I am on set,”
Imagine a director bursting out laughing at one of South Africa’s biggest Gospel celebrities?
Rebecca first appeared on screen as an actress on e.tv’s Ekasi Our Stories in 2015‚ when she took on the role of a promiscuous woman ‘Candy’‚ who would sleep with different men to make ends meet.