I Always Seek Consent Before Touching Bambam On Set – Uzor Arukwe

Uzor Arukwe

Nollywood actor Uzor Arukwe has addressed rumours linking him romantically with colleague Bambam. This comes amid speculation about her marriage to Teddy A, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he first met the actress on the set of their film “Love In Every Word”, and he regularly asks for consent before any physical contact with colleagues, especially when the co-actor is married.

Addressing reports that he slept with Bambam and wrecked her marriage, Uzor clarified that the reports are not true.

His words, “I met BamBam for the first time when we shot that movie and before filming, I was always ask my co-lead actor if it is okay to touch them in a certain way, especially the married ones because I don’t want them to have problems at home.

But People Started Saying We Slept Together And Were Dating, Which Was Completely False.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.