According to critics, Roxane Knetemann can giggle and talk about cycling, but presenting really seems too ambitious. Her attempt at a screen test looks like nothing.
Pride comes before a fall: Roxane Knetemann went very fast in October. She had just finished a few appearances on Today Inside, but immediately dreamed of ‘more’. “I don’t want to be that girl who’s been with you for a year now and it’s going to fade out so slowly next year. I do not want that. I just want a sustainable career.”
No shot
And Roxane would prefer to find that ‘more’ at the NOS, as a presenter. Where she is still active as a commentator on cycling, she wants to become the leading party in TV programs. Well, of course it takes talent. And according to the broadcaster, that is not quite there yet.
Wilfred Genee asks her in the section In The Hallways: “Did you do a screen test at Studio Sport and were you hired? You want to present, you said.”
Roxane: “Yes, I know, but there is no progress. I better say that right away. There’s no shot. I think they might have better talent walking around. That’s what they’re looking for now.”
Does Rox have it?
Wilfred: “That’s strange, because six months ago you said you had it in you.”
Roxane: “I still think I have it in me, but maybe they think it’s less so. Don’t they find it.”
Wilfred: “But haven’t you spoken to anyone there yet? Editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief? Just saying, ‘I just wish that’?”
Roxane: “Yes.”
Wilfred: “Oh, you also pronounced it? What did they say then?”
Roxane: “That it takes time.”
Wilfred: “What?”
Roxane: “It.”
Nervous
Wilfred: “But what exactly is it then?”
Roxane: “Well, it takes time to grow, right? Were you here right away?”
Wilfred: “No, no. I have also made flying hours for a long time, but I want to indicate: you are now, say, an analyst, co-commentator, but you want to be on the other side. You want to be in charge, right? That’s what you want. You want to present. (…) But you can’t do that if you stay on the other side.”
Roxane: “It makes me nervous! Now you’re kind of saying that what I’m doing right now isn’t going to end in what I might want. That is what you say now.”
Wilfred: “Well, if I were you I would quickly make a tape. We can do it now!”
Screen test
Wilfred gives Roxane the opportunity to record a screen test for the NOS in the professional VI studio. And then it turns out that she is not a natural talent when it comes to improvising: “Good evening, Friday evening Studio Sport, ehhh, and many more sports today. I really only know cycling. What else happened? Has anything else happened in terms of sports?”
Wilfred, who gives Rox no less than three (!) chances, is stunned: “A presenter is not going to ask someone who is not on screen if anything else has happened.”
Roxane: “Wilfred, do you know where my heart is right now?! Yes, really! Here! I can only be wrong now, right? (…) My heart is here. Sweaty hands!”
Rox is probably better off sticking to cycling talk. Her three screen tests are absolutely horrible. Then rather three more golden wheelbarrows from the Mol camp.