Matli Mohapeloa Loses Bad Boy Demeanour

The bad boy demeanour has followed Matli Mohapeloa through the characters he has portrayed in his on-screen career and his trademark/scar on the one side of his face doesn’t make it any easier in relating him to the characters. Remember how we got introduced to Matli?

We can’t remember the exact year coz it was in our youngin years. It was through a Love Life ad where we saw him rolling in a fancy car picking up girls and one of them was a school girl with whom he engaged in a very steamy intimacy right in the car before he dropped her off at school. That’s when it settled that we gotta’ watch out for this guy.

There was some change when he played the role of Fistos in the 2005 SABC 1 mini-series When We Were Black which we think to this day it’s one of the greatest productions to ever see the light of day in South Africa. Fistos was a shy and intelligent student who went through his teenage troubles in the apartheid era, 1976 to be exact.

But since he played Fistos Matli has been a super bad boy from his role of DJ Ngwazi on Rhythm City to that of Moss on Zabalaza. He has been followed by drugs, money and multiple women on his later characters and by now he is probably the country’s epitome of a bad boy.

Now that Mzansi Magic has brought in some new flavour on our screens, Matli is also in it and he has lost the bad boy demeanour. On Greed and Desire he plays the role of Morakile a very grounded and calm guy whose life becomes endangered after he witnesses a murder that later he becomes blackmailed for since the blood of the victim is on his shirt.

The role of Morakile is a fresh outlook on Matli, it changes everything that we had already perceived about him. It makes us want more of him, see what else he can channel after years of reckless characters. However this is not the first time that we see Matli channel his inner good behaviour, he has shown us such in his role of Clyde in the second season of InterseXions.