Binnelanders star celebrates 3000 episodes: “This is the biggest lesson I have learnt”
Updated May 19, 2018, 10 a.m. | By Weekends with Renaldo Schwarp
Local actor and musician, Reynardt Hugo, celebrated a decade on the popular Afrikaans soap, Binnelanders by sharing some of his biggest life lessons in an honest Instagram post.
Hugo, best known as Dr. Tertius on Binnelanders, says that being part of the Binnelanders family for the past ten years afforded him the opportunity to meet and work alongside some of the best actors in the country, many of which who have become some of his closest friends.
Vandag, 10 jaar terug, het Elsje en Frederich Stark my die geleentheid gegee om deel te wees van n produksie wat my hele lewe verander het. Ek het baie mense leer ken, baie vriende gemaak, die kans gekry om saam met wonderlike akteurs te werk. Maar saam met dít was daar ook moeilike tye. Donker tye. Besluite wat ek gemaak het wat my my loopbaan sou kos. Die grootste fout wat ek gemaak het, was om te dink dat ek beter is as die ou langs my. Ek was vol ego en “pride”, gedink ek het die wereld aan my voete... Todat n mens hard neerval. Gelukkig het ek die kans gekry om myself weer op te tel, te besluit om in die lig te lewe eerder as die donker. Maar dit kom met n prys. Dit kom altyd met n prys. Sodra jy die waarheid kies, raak dinge moeiliker, want die waarheid maak ongemaklik, dit krap oop en uiteindelik maak dit gesond. Staan sterk in jou gesond word, jy gaan mense verloor, mense gaan jou probeer aftrek, mense wil he jy moet misluk, hulle gaan altyd iets te sê he. Bly op jou spoor, want eerlikheid is ewigheid. Praat die waarheid, no matter what, die lewe is kort, don’t allow any distractions. My pa het hiedie great sê ding: “hou jou voete plat op die grond en oë op die ouman daarbo. Dankie Binnelanders en almal wat saam my die pad gestap het. Baie liefde. 😘🙏🏻
A post shared by ReynardtHugo® (@reynardthugo) on May 14, 2018 at 7:29am PDT
But the last 10 years wasn’t just sunshine and roses for the young star. “I had a big ego and was extremely arrogant, I thought I had the world at my feet… Until you fall, hard,” he added to his Instagram post.
He also gave some advice to his younger self; “Keep on track, because honesty is forever. Speak the truth, no matter what. Life is short and do not allow distractions.”
What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago? Let Renaldo Schwarp know.
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