In his autobiography Is dit jý? veteran actor Ian Roberts writes about his career that spans from Cape Town to Los Angeles; from Shakespearean theatre productions to the Oscar-winning film TsotsiHis life story is a masterclass in the art of acting. He has played the bulldog Sloet Steenkamp in Arende and Boet in the popular Castrol commercials, and in the peak of the Afrikaans television and film industry he worked with legendary directors like Manie van Rensburg and Dirk de Villiers. This brilliant storyteller, with a wicked sense of humour, talks to poet Danie Marais and lets the cat out of the bag about what really happens behind the scenes on film sets.