LISTEN | Brighton Ngoma opens up about the 'hate' his LGBTQI+ character got him

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'People wouldn’t make eye contact with me,' said the uBettina Wethu actor.

Actor Brighton Ngoma opened up about his popular character Quinton's recent tragedies and experience discrimination for his role on SABC 1's 'uBettina Wethu'.Actor Brighton Ngoma feels discrimination against the LGBTQI+ community is still rife after the reactions he experienced in his role as the gay characterthe star opened up about his role as Thabang on the SA version of the popular telenovela Ugly Betty.

“Playing the same role for too long can get tedious for an actor, as well as I am sure for an audience. I needed a challenge, and boy did I get a challenge. I had way too much fun playing Thabang,” said Brighton.Brighton also opened up about the negative reaction he received from playing Thabang, an openly LGBTQI+, non-binary character. He said that even on set he hears discriminatory comments about his character, adding that the hate towards the LGBTQI+ community is still very real.

“It was a rough, people did stay away from me, people wouldn’t make eye contact with me in costume as Thabang.” “I had people coming to me saying ‘are you gay?’ And I was like ‘No, but why does it bother you?’ And they’re like ‘No,no, no. It’s just that, you know, you are really convincing' and I am like 'that is because I am a great actor. It has nothing to do with anything else',” he said.Quinton tragically experienced an accident leading to memory loss. He said it was challenging to play the role of someone with memory loss.

 

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Lies, people don’t even watch that shit

Guys. Why is there still such hate for lgbtqiabcdefg people under the black community? We still get homophobes our side but never at this level in current memory?

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