My Dad Doesn’t Want To Believe I’m An Actor – Uzor Arukwe

Uzor Arukwe

Popular Nollywood actor Uzor Arukwe has opened up about his family’s reaction to his career choice. He recently had his say while speaking during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, his father is still unwilling to accept that he is an actor, and his mum took some time to accept his career path due to her husband’s reservations.

Uzor added that prior to his success in the industry, he was jobless and broke after being fired from his previous job.

His words, “My father doesn’t know that I’m an actor; he has heard, but he doesn’t want to believe. My mum was slow to adapt because of her husband, but she later came around.

I was fired… this is actually the first time I’m saying it publicly. Something happened in my department and I had to take the fall as the leader. That was the only job I had between when I was fired and when I got another job.

At that point, I was broke. I had no money.”

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.