
There’s no one who is conversant with Nollywood movies that won’t
remember this controversial movie ‘Dirty Secrets’ played by stars –
Jibola Dabo, Tonto Dikeh, Late Muna Obiekwe and a few others.
Jibola Dabo who acted the character of a has come out, in a recent
interview with Punch, to say that he hates the role he had to play in
the movie. He claimed that the scenes were too raw as there was no
proper editing.
Dabo also revealed that Late Muna Obiekwe was a heavy smoker/drunk who
smoked and drank like he didn’t remember had liver in his system.
Read excerpts from the interview:
Which movie would you say has been your most challenging?
I hate to advertise for any movie and I believe every movie I have been a
part of has been challenging in several ways. However, the movie that I
had to put extra effort is also the movie I hate the most, ‘Secrets.’ I
played a role that is totally different from who I am in reality. I
hate the character I played and for me to do it well, I had to become
the character. I had to hate myself while doing so. It was bad. After
the movie, I had to keep telling myself that the character I portrayed
was not who I am.
Have you watched the movie?
I don’t want to see it. I have been asked if I could play such a role
again and I told them ‘yes’ but only if I have access to the
post-production stage. There are some things that should have been
edited in the movie that were not removed. There are some things an
actor would do to make his acting real that should be edited but they
released the movie like that. It was so raw and it was terrible for them
to put everything out there.
You acted alongside the late Muna Obiekwe in the movie you’re talking about…
I felt sad
about it. But the young man had been sad for a while because he had been
careless about his health. He drank too much alcohol and he didn’t
remember that he had a liver. He was also a chain smoker, but of course,
there are also people that do it and live longer. I was saddened that
we had lost another star because he was a great actor.
Continue to RIP Muna.
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