In
recent times and weeks, fans familiar with the Nollywood terrain have
decried the rate at which some movie producers and directors have
allowed their female characters to interprete their roles which involves
them showing their oranges.
Most
of these roles fall under those movie makers who try to use a village
settings to tell their stories and in wanting to make it look real, they
decided to make their female character go the extra mile of showing off
their oranges and these many have criticized in various ways.
For actress cum producer, Blessing Effiom Egbe, said there are various ways by which such parts can be done without just throwing it at the audience like that.
She
believes that as a professional film maker who needs things to be done
the right way, they need to first put the personality involved in the
role into consideration before deciding how the script will be
interpreted without creating unhealthy perception among the audience.
Airing
her opinion with Nigeriafilms.com on nudity in Nollywood movies, she
says, “It depends on the role, if I am working with an actor and she
needs to deliver a film where I need to see some skin, I will make sure I
see that skin but in making sure we see the skin, we do not make it
vulgar, we don’t dehumanize who she is, I let everybody go off set and
it will be just me and the cinematographer so that she is comfortable.
There are so many ways we can blur the b00bs from showing but anybody
that decides to be fully naked is doing it because they want to do it
because there are so many ways they can do it, they can wear a full body
suit that actually makes you it look real.”
She
further noted that although the village setting of showing off skin or
parts of the skin is a long traditional way but in modern day society of
telling stories, she will not support such ideas neither will she
accept such role as an actress.
Blessing
stressed that a film maker that insist it should be done that way is
only allowing it on his own will, but warned that despite the loss of
moral sanity in the society, movie makers needs to caution themselves
with what they plan to dish out.
“For the
village scene where people actually dance around, its epic you know,
that is how they use to dress in the past. If a film maker decides to go
that way and decides to have women jumping around with their b00bs then
it’s the film maker’s choice but I wouldn’t do that anyway because it
is a bit too much for me rather I will find other ways of showing skin
than just popping it on people’s face. I don’t know if Nigeria has
gotten there yet because we know a lot of crazy things are happening,
the moral standards in Nigeria is dead and gone, a lot of p0rno-graphy
happening but it shouldn’t allow film makers to go crazy as well, let’s
try and be a bit discipline,” she added.
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