to be extraordinary. I love it,” Edi
responds gleefully.
Like most students of colour, Edi
was focused on joining the school
basketball team and making a
career out of it. After all he had the
perfect height and stature to shine
and impress potential scouts that
would lead him into the big teams.
Unfortunately, a knee injury changed
the course of his dream forcing him
to join an acting course which he then
considered “easy to pass”.
“That’s when my life changed (after
the knee injury). I wanted a class that
would lift my spirits, so I heard about
this class called acting, and I went into
this class and it fed into my spirit,” Edi
reminisces how he landed into acting.
While in acting class, the star got to
read literature and star in course work
plays such as Othello, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Two Trains Running and
the Twelfth Night. Soon enough, Edi
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