Evita and niece Charlize wow LA

At the Glorya Kaufman Hall, Evita announced: “We South Africans are known to do well all over the world. And especially here in Los Angeles. And I am thrilled that my little niece is here tonight,
having done very well in California. Skattie? Waar is jy?”

And Charlize Theron walked out on stage, embraced tannie with a big hug and kiss and the audience went wild. The conversation between them was fast, funny and full of Evita-isms.

“You must admit, meisie, that I was right to tell your mother to bring you here to LA, and not let you take that job with PACT ballet in Pretoria,” Evita said.

Photographic inspiration

“Ja-nee, tannie,” agreed the Oscar-winning superstar. “It's all thanks to you.” And also to that 1980s photo of Evita that Charlize used as her inspiration for the character in Monster!

Evita was also interested to know if Charlize would be acting in the forthcoming film of Nelson Mandela's The Long Walk to Freedom.

“I'll be playing you, Tannie Evita,” she said. The two famous boeremeisies also touched on Charlize's Outreach programme to schools in KZN and Tannie Evita's Darling Trust.

Pieter-Dirk Uys was also working at UCLA as guest professor and performance mentor to a group of 21 students on how to use humour to fight fear. The Los Angeles Times critic summed it all up:
“Uys dons false eyelashes and presidents listen.”