Veteran Nollywood actor RMD has opened up about turning 65. He recently had his say during an interview on the Morayo Brown show, and fans have been reacting.
Revealing that he considers every day a gift, RMD disclosed that he feels grateful on a daily basis because his parents never lived to see 60.
The legendary moviestar added that his disciplined eating habits and regular exercise help him look younger than his age.
His words, “I’m happy to be alive. I’m happy to be a Nigerian at this moment. I’m happy to see that I am living at a time when more people are self-employed than ever in the world.
I mean, I could have worn buba and shoko. Like, why? My first child is 43. Till today, if he still looks at me when I dress up and we will just hiss, I’m not giving up now.
When you find the work of your hand, God just blesses it. Most of us who don’t feel blessed is because we haven’t actually landed the work of our hand.
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.
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