Since his breakout role of Gift Mabuza in Mzansi Magic daily drama The Queen in 2017 and his rise to fame as Karabo KB Molapo in Netflix YA series Blood Water, Thabang Molaba has played a certain type of role the obnoxious, entitled, and badly behaved brat whom local viewers love to hate.
For the fandom, it helps that his delightful charm is so babygirl. Now, his Hollywood breakthrough as Lethabo Khoza in Now You See Me: Now You Dont, as a South African military vet and sidekick to English rose Rosamund Pikes villainous Veronika van der Berg is a career turn, with him breaking away from that typecast.
Locally, it has always been the spoilt brat, rich kid, and Im tired of that, he tells me at the beginning of November, a few days before making his big-screen debut in the US heist film. I want to play the bad guy, villains, gangsters, and drug lords. That kind of stuff, I feel like I would kill it.
