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David to turn Laan upside down
26/10/2007 09:44 - (SA)
Danél Blaauw , Beeld
Johannesburg - After a "long weekend" of nearly three years, actor David Vlok is back on television screens - once again as a scaly, glib character.
Vlok, who was seen in the role of Tim Vorster in Egoli for years, moved to SABC2's soap 7de Laan.
"I have so many words to learn - it's like writing exams. Only, 80% is not good enough, you need 100% to pass," he said on this new soap website.
"For an Englishman like me it's difficult to speak such pure Afrikaans," he said with a sigh and with his dialogue-coach at hand.
"But I immediately felt at home on the set. It feels as if I had been away only for a long weekend.
"Many of the people at 7de Laan used to work with me at Egoli.
"The technical skills returned immediately, but in the beginning I battled to memorise the script. It's getting easier."
'Most horrible, hated character'
Vlok, who has been on the 7de Laan set for seven weeks already, will be on screen in November.
"I play the role of Robert King. He is a big charmer and incredibly rich. And of course he has the hots for one of the girls in the Laan," he said.
The 44-year-old actor believed his character was going to turn things upside down in the Laan.
"He is the most horrible, most hated character on earth," he said.
"I get angry with him."
During his audition he tried his best to get the role of a "beloved" character.
"Danie Odendaal, the producer of 7de Laan, gave me one look and said: 'No, David!' "
Volk left MNet's Egoli in 2004 after playing the hated Tim Vorster for 13 years.
He did not sit still for the two and a half years he was gone from the screen.
"I made a television programme together with Bruce Fordyce, Vlok and Fordyce on the run, for SuperSport.
"Bruce and I designed jogging routes for holiday resorts, I played in Pieter Toerien's musical Stepping Out ... and I got married."
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