Popular comedian Julius Agwu has opened up about his return to the Nigerian movie industry. This comes after the entertainer took a long break, and fans have been reacting.
Revealing that he feels fulfilled returning to the work he enjoys, Agwu stated that he is happy to be back in business despite the technological changes that have reshaped filmmaking and content distribution over the years.
Julius added that he does not take every acting job he is offered because he has a reputation to protect.
His words, “I feel great being back to what I love doing and among great talented colleagues. On the changes I have seen, obviously, the technology for making movies has changed. It has improved. Change is inevitable. As I was coming here a man wanted me to buy his music CD. I was like, What age is this man living in? Nobody plays DVDs anymore, let alone CDs. I don’t think I have seen a DVD player in a long time now. Those are changes.
There was a time when it was only the Nigerian Television Authority on TV back when I started in the movie industry, but now, there are several televisionn stations. Then, you must buy a movie VHR to watch movies but now, everybody has a phone and you can watch everything just by clicking. Now there’s ROK TV, unlike back then when it was only DSTV that could screen your movies.
Now YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon are here. You can even have your own TV platform tomorrow. Technology has advanced and we are all global now. There are changes everywhere.”
On his choice of roles, “Not all movie roles. I select the movies I want to star in. I love acting. I love every aspect of the entertainment industry. Not that I am making too much money from the industry, but because it’s my field of endeavour with a lot of passion. I read Theater at the University of Port Harcourt.
Theater Arts involve everything in entertainment. I don’t do acting just to make ends meet. I do acting for the love of acting and the passion. The movie roles are the ones looking for me now, not the other way round. They give me movie roles based on who I am in the industry.
I am a grandfather when it comes to comedy. In fact, I am an ancestor when it comes to comedy. They call me Master in the industry, that’s because I have paid my dues in comedy. When I attend comedy shows, they remix my jokes.
They change the names but the originality is mine. Some of the things I say as jokes are proper things that happen, but people find them very funny. I could be saying what happened to me on my way to somewhere and people are laughing, rolling on the floor with laughter. So the hilarious part is natural. It’s in the blood.”
WOW.
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