Actress Terry Pheto chats to Amanda Mtuli about the loss of her father, and how his teachings of gratitude encouraged her to get back to work amid her pain.
I spot Terry sitting at our reception area. I sense her sadness before I see it in her eyes, and later hear it in her voice. Should I hug her? I ask myself. As she smiles at me, I’m briefly taken back to 2001, the year my mother died. I remember all the unwelcome hugs from strangers, and settle for a handshake as it’s not overly familiar.
DEATH BE NOT PROUD
This year was starting off on a high note for Terry – the release of an international movie titled A United Kingdom with an international award nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her stellar portrayal of Naledi Khama at the National Film Awards UK, and a mini-series titled Madiba. But, the unpredictable happened – death.
“I am not coping. It’s like a rug has been pulled from under me. I’m still trying to find my way,” she says of her father’s death. She will always remember him as a positive man who taught her gratitude. “It’s still so soon; he was around just days ago. I still want to ask him a lot of things,” she says. Terry feels that whenever something positive happens, a negative also happens.
She remembers being at the Oscars for her movie Tsotsi, when she had just buried her brother. In January, she was supposed to be in the US to promote her series, which came out in the first week of February. “I don’t want to say this is how God wants my life to be nor call it a thing and in turn attract it into my life. It’s just how things are right now,” she says.
PAIN BUILDS CHARACTER
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