Comedian Teju Babyface has said he does not consider himself a “great actor,” noting that filmmakers such as Tade Ogidan and the late Amaka Igwe put him in the spotlight probably through the unseen hands of the divine.
Notably, the funnyman stars in the 1998 Nollywood thriller Diamond Ring directed by Tade Ogidan. The movie also stars Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sola Sobowale and Bukky Ajayi among others.
Speaking with QEDNG publisher Olumide Iyanda recently, Teju Babyface said he owed his brief success in acting to filmmakers who just saw in him a personality and physique fit for movies.
He said, “We must always thank life for the resistance and the good part. The same way that I couldn’t break down what the resistance was years back is the same way that I couldn’t have broken down the luck that brought me to Diamond Ring. It was nothing that I did. I was just in Theatre 15 and Tade Ogidan was looking to cast somebody in a role.
“They told him there was a theatre group in the University of Lagos and that he should go look at them. The moment he saw me, regardless of whether I could act or not, Tade Ogidan made up his mind that he was going to make me act. He said I had the looks, he said I was the one for whom he wrote this script.
“So I like to tell people that I’m not a great actor. Whatever you watched in Diamond Ring that you loved 100 percent of the credit should be laid at the feet of the master director Tade Ogidan.”
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