Skelmanthorpe actress Jodi Whittaker wows them in Africa

Jun 23 2009 By Neil Atkinson

White Wedding, described as a South African road movie, saw Whittaker filming in the beautiful countryside around Cape Town and Table Mountain with top African stars Kenneth Nkosi, Rapulana Seiphemo and Zandile Msutwana.

The film follows the loyal, committed and very decent Elvis (Nkosi) as he leaves Johannesburg on Tuesday en route to pick up his best friend and best man Tumi (Seiphemo) in Durban.

Whittaker plays the part of Rose, a young English doctor who fled the altar after discovering her fiancée was serially unfaithful to her and links up with the pair.

Critics described "White Wedding" as an appealing, feel-good movie about love, commitment, intimacy and friendship.

Whittaker is also awaiting the release of Perrier’s Bounty, a comedy drama about Irish gangsters in which she co-stars with Jim Broadbent and Cillian Murphy.

And she was also in the Emerald Isle to film Occi vs The World, alongside Tom Burke and Irish actress Susan Lynch.

The third film, which she has just completed, is The Kid, a gritty thriller set in London and featuring Rupert Friend, James Fox and Bernard Hill.