I’m Unmarried At 48 Because Relationships Feel Like Another Script – Nonso Diobi

Veteran Nollywood actor Nonso Diobi has come out to share the reason why he remains unmarried at 48. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, growing up in the spotlight and living a chunk of his life on television made it very hard for him to relate to the world outside of Nollywood.

Nonso added that even though he has given love and relationships several chances in the past, he has not been able to get it right.

His words, “Let me make it very snappy: a lot of actors and filmmakers find it difficult to differentiate between the real world and the make-believe one. I tried; I have given love and relationships chances.

I’ve tried consistently but what people don’t understand is that I’ve been making efforts to build relationships with people that could lead to marriage but guess what? I realised that there were certain things that I wasn’t doing right. I was seeing the relationships from the perception of scripts that I always write.

Actors act for too long and live in the make-believe world for so long that they practically forget how to live in the real world. The world is a different ballgame from the movies.

I grew up on TV so I don’t know what it means to be a regular guy, I don’t know what regular people know. Everything about me is film and storylines. I’ve lived in people’s realities for so long that I’ve forgotten how to live in my own reality.”

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.