John Njamah voices concerns about how actors are used for movie roles in Nollywood

Nollywood actor, producer, and director John Njamah has voiced his honest opinion about how actors are now being chosen to be part of movie projects in Nigeria.

The movie-maker who opened up in an interview with Pulse Nigeria said that actors should be cast based on ability and not the number of Instagram followers they have.

John Njamah, who is most known for playing Rabiu in the television show Fuji House of Commotion, made the comments while offering perceptive opinions about the state of Nollywood film-making.

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“What is fueling me is beyond passion. There’s that knack and need to grow with every month, whatever year. There’s that need to.do something different. This industry of ours is for you to do whatever you want to do and not join the bandwagon. So for me, it’s the originality in me and the need to do something right that is fuelling me, it’s the ever-creative venture in me,” he said.

Njamah also talked about the evolution of African storytelling, highlighting both the good and bad developments that have occurred throughout time.

“There’s a positive aspect and there’s a negative aspect. There’s a technical input. We’re telling our stories better technically. We’re telling better and bigger stories. The negative is that we are beginning to lose our originality.

‘‘We are beginning to join the bandwagon to tell what is peculiar to other people and not to us. We are beginning to lose a bit of our identity cos there’s no longer us,” he said.

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