IT STILL FEELS

LIKE HOME

Arnold Vosloo has swopped

Hollywood for SA to tackle a

challenging role in a movie

based on the Griekwastad

murders. Here he talks about

whatit’slikebeingback

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T’S been ages since he was in South

Africa for work. Home has been Holly­

wood for decades and he’s carved a

comfortable life for himself near the

ocean, walking his dog in the hills of

Los Angeles and keeping house for his

accountant wife when he’s between

jobs.

But Arnold Vosloo is back, lured by a

project he finds both intriguing and dis­

turbing. He plays police colonel Dick de

Waal in the movie Griekwastad, based

on the triple family murder that rocked

South Africa and tore the Northern Cape

farming community apart.

The movie – which is in Afrikaans with

English subtitles – debuted at the annu­

al Silwerskermfees in Camps Bay, Cape

Town, and will soon make the rounds on

the international film festival circuit be­

fore it hits cinemas.

Arnold (57) looks cool and calm in a

purple shirt and black pants, sipping a

bottle of local craft beer, when we meet

him in the lobby of a Stellenbosch hotel.

He’s been finding his stay here a little

overwhelming,headmits. People recog­

e goes and ask for

utographs.

hy I prefer eating

tel room,” he says.

screet and no one

es up to me.”

riekwastad is his

st Afrikaans pro­

ct since he left

outh Africa for

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bornHolly-

woodactor

Arnold plays

investigating

officerDickde

Waalinthe

Afrikaansfilm

Griekwastad,

about a family

murder on a

farm in the

Northern Cape.

Don Steen-

kamp (BELOW)

was found

guilty of mur-

dering his par-

ents and sister.

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