I Don’t Blame Men Who Say They Can’t Date An Actress – Sandra Okunzuwa

Nollywood actress Sandra Okunzuwa has opened up about the emotional challenges movie stars face while filming romantic scenes. She recently had her say during an interview on the BTS Reality Show, and fans have been reacting.

Revealing that kissing roles once contributed to the end of her relationship, Sandra explained that many people wrongly assume actors enjoy intimate scenes on set, whereas the reality is often uncomfortable and emotionally draining.

Stressing that she cannot blame those who say they cannot date actresses, Okunzuwa recalled how her former boyfriend confronted her after receiving a video clip of her kissing another actor on a movie set.

Her words, “If you have twenty people watching you while kissing in the movie, it is impossible to enjoy it. We do not enjoy it, we do not get in the mood.

If it is something we can scrap out completely and still make viewers enjoy it, I would be happy with it.

These things affect our personal relationships. For instance, I had to leave a relationship because of this.

He called me and told me that he was just sent a video of me kissing this actor on set. It is hard; it is not easy.

I do not blame people who say they cannot date actresses because it is not everyone who can take certain things.”

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.