{"id":354,"date":"2016-06-07T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/chi-mhende-reveals-how-she-prepared-to-play-a-man-wandile-radebe-in-generations-the-legacy\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:42:12","slug":"chi-mhende-reveals-prepared-play-man-wandile-radebe-generations-the-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/chi-mhende-reveals-prepared-play-man-wandile-radebe-generations-the-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chi Mhende Reveals How She Prepared To Play A Man &#8216;Wandile Radebe&#8217; In Generations The Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6521\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6521\" class=\"wp-image-6521 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chi-Mhende2.jpg\" alt=\"Chi Mhende Playing as a Man Wandile Radebe in Generations The Legacy\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chi-Mhende2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chi-Mhende2-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chi Mhende aka Wandile Radebe in Generations The Legacy is a woman.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When actress Chi Mhende first appeared on SABC 1 soapie a couple of months ago playing the role of young bachelor Wandile Radebe no one knew that the role was actually being played by a woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news that Wandile was actually a woman in real life came a few months after Chi\u2019s had been on the show, the news was broken through social media when some people posted about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of people have been intrigued by this actress and how she manages to convincingly play a man. Chi says despite having auditioned for other roles for the show over six years, playing Wandile was a great, hard and yet exciting experience.<\/p><div class=\"a17b8461aa8852e9804489a09abe77ee\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Ad -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1510235538\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/zakes-bantwini-and-nandi-mngomas-pregnancy-photo-shoot\/\">Zakes Bantwini And Nandi Mngoma\u2019s Pregnancy Photo Shoot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTo prepare for playing Wandile I had to take a look at sexual identity, gender dysphoria, body dysphoria and I really allowed myself to fall into the physicalization of the part,\u201d Chi explained in a recent interview with SABC 3\u2032s Expresso Show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chi also said to prepare for the role she googled a lot to do with men including their mannerisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chi is the first woman on Mzansi television. Chi has played a man before as Earnest Worthy in the play The Importance of being Earnest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Generations The Legacy plays Mon- Fri on SABC 1 at 8pm.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When actress Chi Mhende first appeared on SABC 1 soapie a couple of months ago playing the role of young&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Chi-Mhende2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}