I Don’t Interact With Daniel Etim-Effiong Outside Work – Bolaji Ogunmola

Bolaji Ogunmola

Nollywood actress and filmmaker Bolaji Ogunmola has expressed frustration over comments about her kissing scenes online. This comes after a social media user criticised her on-screen chemistry with co-star Daniel, describing it as excessive and suggesting it could lead to real-life romantic feelings.

Reacting, Ogunmola hinted that she might step aside from social media to concentrate on her work because she is tired of people reducing her projects to just kissing scenes.

The moviestar concluded by emphasising her professionalism, stressing that she doesn’t even interact with Daniel Etim-Effiong outside work.

Her words, “You are an absolute retard!! You watched to tweet stupidity, and it shows. What is the entire film about, you nitwit!! You want to reduce my entire work to kissing. You are an absolute fool, and all of you are thinking like that. What foolish item? We don’t even talk outside of work!. You think because you lack boundaries and have no respect for yourself, everyone acts and carries themselves like that, you absolute fool.

I don’t care what happened to any other actor… some of us have plenty of dignity and self-respect. Your opinion about things is a direct representation of who you are and what you stand for. Things I have learned: so many people aren’t professionals, and people lack strong boundaries and are cheats themselves if the situation enables them.

The bloom after isn’t just another romance film. It’s about a woman finding herself after giving everything to a cause she believed in. We know an inara, there’s an inara on our street, in your office. Please share the film with them and remind them they are worthy.”

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.