“Hollywood, Others Will Tell African Stories With a Twist”: Jimmy Odukoya, Scarlet Gomez Charge Filmmakers
- Ace Nollywood actress Scarlet Gomez declares that the Nigerian movie industry is not doing enough to tell African stories and folktales
- The actress, during a recent chat with Legit.ng credited her industry for some remarkable achievements it's been able to attain over the last few years
- Jimmy Odukoya, just like his colleague Scarlet also holds the opinion that Nollywood is not doing enough he noted that if we don't tell our stories, Hollywood will help us
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Nollywood actress Scarlett Gomez, recently during a chat with Legit.ng's Nosa Oke-Hortons urged her colleagues in the movie industry to do better at telling African stories.
The actress noted that she's not impressed with the efforts sometimes put into telling African stories through the black man's eyes.
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Scarlett also noted that she feels disappointed whenever she sees Hollywood telling an African story to the actual owners.
Read Gomez's statement below:
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"It would be unfair of me to say they're not doing enough because I know how hard it takes us to tell our stories. But am I impressed with the efforts? Not yet. I feel like we can tell a lot of our stories more, and we can actually tell people what is going on and stop making people believe in fairytales. Enough of happy endings rather lets tell the stories of the true reality on ground."
Another Nollywood actor who seems to hold this prejudice by Scarlett Gomez is her colleague Jimmy Odukoya. He recently featured in the Hollywood movie The Woman King, which starred Viola Davies.
During a chat with Legit.ng, Jimmy shared his thoughts on the need for African filmmakers to tell more African stories. He opined that Africa has many untapped stories waiting to be told and harnessed.
He said:
"We need to tell our own stories and tell them well from our own angle with authenticity. If we don't, Hollywood and other foreign filmmakers will help us tell them, and when they do so they would do it with their own twist.
"Nollywood has a lot more to give, we have many of our stories to tell. We've so many stories of brave African women whose great feats need to be told and can be used to serve as an inpiration to younger generations that African women are beyond the distorting narrative of r*pe, assault, maltreatment and poverty."
Nollywood actress Scarlett Gomez marks her 30th birthday in Pristine Look
Turning 30, for many women, is often a big deal, which explains why many ladies often go all out to mark the milestone age. Nollywood actress Scarlet Gomez was no different during the recent celebration of her thirtieth birthday.
The talented Nollywood actress recently turned a year older on Thursday, May 12, 2022, and she took to her Instagram page to celebrate.
She shared some photos from her birthday shoot that were breathtaking. In the pictures, the screen goddess donned a new white dress which flattered her silhouette.
Source: Legit.ng
