You’re A Fraud If You Don’t Fully Commit To Your Character As An Actor – Femi Branch

Nollywood actor Femi Branch has come out to blast actors who show up the same way in every role they are offered in movies. He recently had his say during an interview with HIPTV, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, Nollywood actors who never do enough to physically or emotionally transform into the characters they are playing are nothing but fraudsters.

He added that any professional movie star who is guilty of that is intentionally cheating their audience and stealing a living.

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His words, “You have someone that calls himself an actor and he has just one look in every film. I’m sorry dude, you’re not professional. You’re a fraud.

The audience has to keep convincing themselves that it’s not you—they’re doing your job for you. You’re giving them stress!

If you have to go bald, you go bald. If you have to carry warts on your face, you carry warts! Your body doesn’t belong to you—it belongs to the craft.

That’s why you’ll never see such actors in serious projects. Producers and directors know how to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Who cares about your good looks? People are paying for the characters they can relate with—not your selfies.”

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.