My Intimate Scenes With Iyabo Ojo Were Respectful – Tayo Faniran

Tayo Faniran

Nollywood actor Tayo Faniran has opened up about filming romantic scenes with actress Iyabo Ojo in her movie “Labake Olododo.” He recently had his say during an interview with Oyinmomo TV, and fans have been reacting.

Asked about their romantic scene and how the chemistry between them appeared too real, Faniran replied that even though Iyabo Ojo is an attractive woman, their relationship on set was respectful and professional.

Tayo added that he was uncomfortable while shooting intimate scenes with Shaffy Bello because it happened earlier in his acting career.

His words, “Iyabo Ojo is a beautiful woman. There’s hardly any man who won’t attest to the fact that she’s pleasing to the eye. The relationship between us is respectful. We’re just doing our jobs.

I remember when I worked with Shaffy Bello on Tinsel, then her children just got back from the UK. I was supposed to be really intimate with her, but I wasn’t as professional as I am now. I was not comfortable because her grown children were there watching.”

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.