Love by chance

Kea Zawadi discusses her character Nkuli’s journey to finding love in three months on romcom show 13 Weeks

- IPELENG RAKGANTSHO

13 Weeks To Find Mr Right

Season 1 Sundays SABC1 (*191) 19:30

When it’s revealed that fictional glossy magazine Dazzle is retrenching workers to go digital, junior journalist Nkuli (Kea Zawadi) does the extreme to save her job in local comedy series 13 Weeks To Find Mr Right. She pitches an idea to write an online column in which she joins a dating app called Flirt under a false identity – as her alias Lulu – and she attempts to find her Prince Charming in just three months.

After each date, Nkuli returns to the office and journals her unique dating experiences. “Nkuli realises that dating isn’t as easy as she anticipated. Some of the men she meets are insufferable,” explains Kea, whose character’s list of disaster dates include an obnoxious man who couldn’t stop talking about himself, there’s one who was secretly married, and another who wasn’t over his ex-girlfriend and kept bringing her up.