'Smoke & Mirrors' actor Khaye Sibisi reflects on his character in the show

Umlazi-born actor Khaye Sibisi is known as Tim in e.tv's Smoke & Mirrors and has also featured in Muvhango, Empini and My Brother’s Keeper.

Speaking to TshisaLIVE, the 34-year-old said: “This character is a funny character, but with a motivation or lesson in it because Tim has a wife and children, therefore he's a family man. Sipho [his friend] is alone. Tim sometimes doesn't want to disappoint his friend and that is why umthola esenkingeni angazi naye ungene kanjani [he finds himself in trouble but doesn't know how he got into it], hence Tim finds himself in trouble because of Sipho.

“The challenges I've found in the acting industry include where you are not getting paid on time. Sometimes you find yourself replacing another actor, which is very challenging because sometimes you don't even know how to play the character because he has already established the character in his own way, and now you need to add a bit of spice to make it alive.”

Besides acting, Khaye does music, though he took a break from it to focus on his acting talent.

“The reason for taking a break was I never got a breakthrough in music. So I decided to focus on my other talent which is acting. One day I guess I'll release music. I haven't released any yet because I'm trying to get the right platform for myself or to put my name on the map through acting, then after some time I can start my music thing.”