Rest In Peace Jamie Bartlett | Prolific Stage & Screen Actor AKA David Genaro, Has died at 55
As his son reached his final year of college, he felt a fundamental change. After working hard for so many years to give his only child a good life, Jamie Bartlett decided it was time to focus on himself.
Having spent the past 13 years playing David Genaro in Rhythm City, he wanted to spread his wings, so he left the popular soap opera.
“I've been playing David for a long time, I'm not saying it's easy, but my God, we've explored every part of him,” Jamie tells DRUM.
“I know what it smells like, I know how much wax it has in its ears. It had come to an end. "David will become one of the meanest men in Mzansi's soap operas, the guy who incessantly terrified his rivals without even thinking about the devastation he caused in the process of getting what he wanted. But karma has a way to do it. catch up with someone and eventually, the soapy villain died the way he lived. In a dramatic scene, David is shot dead by Suffocate (Mduduzi Mabaso) and Khulekani (Mncedisi Shabangu), which is decided to take revenge after David kills his son.
We have explored every part of it. Rhythm City's last bad boy has been buried - and this time it's final.
"I really enjoyed his first death 10 years ago," jokes Jamie. At the time David died in a barrage of bullets after Gina (Dorette Potgieter) retaliated against him for kidnapping and torturing her, but it was revealed that he had faked her death. But this time there is no way to bring him back from the dead. "Something happened when my son finished college," Jamie says.
I'm not done, not by a long shot
“I felt that living in Joburg, I had lived to send him to school, then it was his business degree. I'm turning 54 this year and I felt like it was just the end of a parenthesis. ”But leaving the soap opera after 13 years wasn't easy.
"I needed to sit down and look in the mirror," she says. “Do I spend more time with Mom in Cape Town? Do I teach and travel more between here, London [where is he from], and Cape Town? I opened up to more acting and how many British films do I want to do, or do I want to be in Cape Town? "
He had a lot to think about, but one thing was clear. "I'm not done with acting, not from afar," says Jamie.
"I think I'm ready to inherit 25 years of something different."
We are meeting him in his elegant three-story loft apartment in Jozi. The airy lounge is tastefully decorated with quirky lamps, colorful glass vases, and precious ornaments. Two colorful Basotho blankets are neatly draped over an olive green velvet sofa. The talented TV star wears a trendy colorful tee and red sunglasses that are becoming her signature new look. "You must be an interesting person," Jamie says.
A giant black and white image of two young blacks wearing Gucci belts and drinking adorns the wall in front of him. He says he loves the fact that the artwork tells the story of young black men from the townships. “I'm crazy about South Africa, about worms and trees. Jamie Bartlett is what you see here. A man who reads plays, who reads classics, and who has few close friends.
"It takes quite a while to live comfortably in your own skin, I live more comfortably now than when I was 30, I know what I want," he adds. “Yes, I fell off my horse a couple of times, but I had to get back up. I've made mistakes and bad decisions in life. I think the indelible thing is that I'm a dad. I've been through the pain of parenting like all parents do. It changes you. It makes you grow. I'm much better emotionally than I've ever been.
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