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I Stopped Acting Because I Was Stereotyped As A Bad Boy – Actor Segun Arinze
Nollywood actor, Segun Arinze, has spoken about his journey as a Nollywood actor, in a new interview with a renowned media personality, Chude Jideonwo.
In a recent episode of ‘With Chude’, which was released on Friday, May 24, 2024, Arinze talked about his success in the Nollywood movie titled ‘Silent Night’ (1996), which was the movie that launched him to stardom for the role he played as ‘Black Arrow’. However, he also discussed how playing the role of a ‘bad boy’ damaged his psyche and compelled him to give up acting.
In his words: “There was a time I took a hiatus from acting when people were casting me in that mold of bad boy, bad boy and it began to affect my psyche and all that.”
Segun Arinze also spoke to Chude, for the first, about his divorce from the popular actress, Anne Njemanze. His words: “I stayed out of marriage after the first one collapsed. I stayed out for like 12 years before I remarried.”
Meanwhile, Chude wrote on his X-account, that there was a time Segun Arinze was blacklisted in the Nollywood film industry, but voice-over saved his life.
Chude’s words: “We talk about those terrible years when he was blacklisted by Nollywood, and how voice overs saved his life.”.
More so, he started his acting career in Ilorin and had subsequently been featured in numerous Nollywood movies that include ‘Eye for Eye (1999)’, ‘Karishika 2 (1999)’, ‘Vuga (2000)’, ‘Highway to the Grave (2000)’, and ‘Invasion 1897 (2014)’.
Aside acting movies, Segun Arinze is also a’ Coach in Acting’, whereby sharing his knowledge in the acting profession with the younger generations.
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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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