JAKARTA - Young actor Kiesha Alvaro was cast as the main character named Shaka in the latest feature film directed by Starvision, Shaka Oh Shaka. Kiesha's return to this production house apparently brought its own burden and challenges for him.
"Back to the house that raised me, namely to my father (Chand Parwez), after a year my father really likes to challenge his children. He was given this role and responsibility," said Kiesha in a press conference for Shaka Oh Shaka in Central Jakarta, Wednesday, April 8.
In order to delve into his role, Kiesha immediately bought the novel adapted from the film. However, this actually brought up his biggest fear.
"My first biggest fear was when I read the novel, the character was so handsome. Not that, the character is so handsome!" he said honestly, which was greeted with laughter from the other cast.
Kiesha's burden increased when she had to build chemistry with her co-star, Arla Ailani, who played the character Ocell. Arla's closed nature at the beginning of the reading made Kiesha have to think hard.
"Honestly, at the beginning of Arla, he really stuck to the script, just talking about work, all kinds of things, then he went home. The second day was the same, the third day was the same," said Kiesha.
"Finally I tried to find out what it was that could make him more open, more willing to talk. So it's weird, suddenly Korean TikTok dance," he added.
Responding to this, Arla Ailani defended himself. He admitted that it took a process for him to be able to open up to new people.
"It's called introverted Mas, there was a process first. I'm really sorry," replied Arla laughing.
Funny, even though now they are familiar and filming has been completed, the two of them did not follow each other on Instagram social media.
"I asked Kiesha, 'Cak, we don't follow each other, do we?' Then I didn't know what the topic was? 'People use your IG timer on social media, you only have an hour a day, what do you want me to follow?'," said Arla, imitating Kiesha's words.
In addition to Kiesha Alvaro, the film Shaka Oh Shaka will also be played by Artika Sari Devi, Teuku Ryzki, Amel Carla, Joshua Suherman, to Adzana Asheel. The film is scheduled to begin airing on May 7.
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