Nollywood actor, Uzor Arukwe, has accused movie producers of repeatedly providing him “Odogwu” characters, saying he can’t be restricted to one sort of function.
Arukwe made the comment throughout an interview on The Creativitea Podcast, the place he mentioned producers stored asking him to repeat the character as a result of they believed it might assure returns on their funding.
“All the producers in Nollywood now want to kill me with Odogwu character. You can’t put me in a box,” he mentioned.
The actor urged producers to take probabilities on different characters, simply as somebody had taken an opportunity on the function that helped set up his recognition.
“The same way someone took a chance on that character, you can also create another character and give to me,” Arukwe mentioned.
His feedback got here after his supervisor, Mautin Tairu, popularly often known as Mr M, admitted that he had additionally develop into uninterested in the actor’s frequent “igbotic” roles.
