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DIDINTLE KHUNOE on Woman in Film, Loction Bioscpoes, Flight Fees, Black Woman Empowerment|🍿& 🧀

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She says she has been working for nine years and founded a production company to create safer spaces for women filmmakers.

1. PNC - People Need Comedy speaks with Didi Kuno about acting, music, and film work. 2. Didi Kuno is the guest, and she describes herself as an actress, entrepreneur, singer, and voiceover artist. 3. The episode asks how a performer from Klangstorp built a screen career and why she wants better local storytelling. 4. Kuno says her father is doctor Kuno and her mother started as a medical technologist before becoming an interior decorator and businesswoman. 5. She says both parents loved music and played Motown at home, including Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Lionel Richie, and Michael Jackson. 6. Kuno describes appearing on Jam Alley as a child and choosing freestyle over singing a cover. 7. She says her first stage role came at 16 in a musical review, where she played a security guard named Dolly. 8. She explains that the review mixed short scenes with musical numbers and was hosted by a school to raise funds. 9. Kuno says the role made her realize, 'This is my life.' 10. She says she went to WITS to study drama because she wanted to test whether acting was truly her path. 11. Kuno says her first professional job was a Lockshin Bioscope during the period when Mzansi Magic was introducing the format. 12. She says that work led to her first TV cameo on SABC2's Mamello, where she played a student. 13. Kuno names Mapula on The Throne and 13 Weeks to Find Mr. Right among the projects that followed. 14. She says she has worked in the industry for nine years and only later got an agent. 15. Kuno says she started a production company because female filmmakers need safe spaces on set and better work opportunities. 16. She says she wants stories told through the female gaze and as an African young woman. 17. She argues that intimacy scenes should be 'sophisticated' and reveal more about the characters, not just show sex. 18. She says action scenes also need better stunt coordination, stronger budgets, and less policing about what audiences supposedly want. 19. The tone is loose, playful, and argumentative, with frequent jokes about ads, holidays, and old South African references. 20. People interested in South African acting, screenwriting, and industry craft will get the most from it.

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