Nollywood actor Lateef Adedimeji has opened up about his marriage to Mo Bimpe. He recently had his say during an interview with Morayo Afolabi Brown, and fans have been reacting.
Admitting that he previously vowed never to marry someone from the industry, Lateef confessed that God clearly had other plans for him.
The moviestar added that Mo Bimpe’s religion was not a turn-off for him because peace of mind and compatibility matter far more to him.
His words, “I would always say that I would never marry in the industry, or marry an industry person.
But most of the time, you just talk, and God will be looking at you like, ‘No, not it,’
They will not accept a Muslim in my household, Are you sure? Let me go and see your father.
The first religion is your conscience and is your peace of mind. Every other thing comes after then.
She is a very intelligent person, and she is a very stern person. ‘This is it, that is it,’
You can be very beautiful and nothing upstairs. Then there’s no point.
That means you won’t move me forward. I need somebody to push me and to keep pushing me forward, and that she did.”
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.
