For most of the world South African actress Lesley-Ann Brandt is best known for her role as the demon Mazikeen on the hit TV show Lucifer. Resurrected by Netflix, after it was cancelled on FOX, the show has seen a surge of popularity and has been discovered by a whole new host of viewers leading to speculation that a fifth season is now imminent. In South Africa however, Brandt shot to towering fame when she chose to use Afrikaans to represent “Demon tongue”, the language of hell, on the show.
“I had read that I was going to speak demon and didn’t want to just make sounds. Random noises don’t sound right, and are also much harder to do,” she says. “While we recently were voted one of the sexiest accents in the world, I think we South Africans don’t think of Afrikaans as being a sexy language, so I started cheekily wondering if I could use the language, do the job credit, and sneak some of my heritage into the show.
“I had an agent in LA, but no friends. I just leapt in. I hit pilot season, and auditions while trying to learn my American accent and finding my tribe of people. Friends are so important in LA, cause I think you could easily become obsessed with work and do nothing else in this town [LA],” she says. “I missed my family in New Zealand because I couldn’t afford to fly back and see them.
But Brandt is quick to add that she isn’t one of those expats who has ever forgotten the country of her birth. “I love South Africa and I watch everything that happens there. I have pretty strong opinions about stuff and have started thinking about how, and where I can get involved. I think that’s our right, not as an expat, but as citizens. I don’t think it’s possible to stop caring,” she says.The show itself is seemingly going from strength-to-strength.
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