Popular kykNET collection, Die Byl, is again on TV come 16 January 2022 and Waldemar Schultz, who performs the role of Colonel Piet van der Bijl, says it’s a role he loved tremendously, particularly as a result of the character is a lot totally different to who he’s in actual life.
“It was a beautiful expertise,” he says.
For him, the important thing to performing lies in analysing textual content.
“When you’ve got that large image in your head, then the character begins constructing itself inside you.
He says though Der Bijl could be very totally different to him, portraying the role got here to him comparatively naturally.
“Especially with the primary season, I felt that I actually needed to make this character work and that there’s a lot about him that’s not like me.”
Waldemar says what makes the filming of a collection like Die Byl tough is the tempo at which it will get filmed.
“You simply must preserve monitor. You work on one thing like 18 motion pictures on the similar time.”
He says with Die Byl, they fortunately filmed it nearly chronologically, which made it slightly simpler. That, and the truth that they had been “a unbelievable staff”.
After taking pictures 4 seasons with the staff, Waldemar says he would go to struggle with each certainly one of them.
Die Byl was constructed on comparable rules as a few of the Scandinavian crime collection. Still, Waldemar says it is advisable watch out to not let different issues affect your performing and that he let the textual content discuss for itself.
“I believe we had a really sturdy writing staff.”
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The actor additionally had the privilege of spending a while with the late Piet Byleveld.
“This is just not the biographical factor,” he says, however Byleveld was positively the inspiration for the story.
“It was a beautiful alternative to sit down down with him and ask him how his head labored,” says Waldemar.
“At one level, I requested him how he switches all of it off; how do you get these pictures out of your head? Then he simply mentioned that he loved driving a horse together with his canine beside him.”
Waldemar says it was there that he realised that it is advisable have a really particular form of thoughts to have the ability to do what Byleveld did, which is one thing he strives to painting in Die Byl.
“It was a pleasant key for me,” says Waldemar.
“This man, he’s not like the remainder of us. He has a world of his personal, which he doesn’t create, however builds from exterior issues that he observes, feels, sees and so on. He’s not very sociably competent. He lives right here, not there like the remainder of us. That was most likely my most key strategy to how this man’s thoughts works,” he says about the role he portrays within the collection.
According to Waldemar, the primary season of Die Byl was merely an introduction to Colonel Piet van der Bijl. It was solely within the second season that it grew to become extra about the staff and the interpersonal relationships.
Each of the characters grew to become extra vital to Die Byl, but additionally to the viewers. The third season “introduced quite a lot of deeper stuff out of Byl”, says Waldemar.
Every character’s character and private life struggles got here to mild within the third season. Season 4 is “a legislation unto itself”, says Waldemar, “however I’m not going to say something”.
According to Waldemar, Die Byl’s fourth season is price watching due to a golden thread that may preserve viewers intrigued and .
Watch Die Byl on kykNET (DStv channel 144) from 16 January 2022 at 8pm. The collection may even be obtainable on DStv Catchup.
