By Boluwatiofe Kehinde-Idowu Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli has mirrored on her longstanding skilled relationship with Nollywood filmmaker Kunle Afolayan, courting again to their work on the 2008 movie The Figurine. In a put up shared through Instagram on Tuesday, Oboli revealed that watching Afolayan work on the set of The Figurine……
By Boluwatiofe Kehinde-Idowu
Nollywood actress Omoni Oboli has mirrored on her longstanding skilled relationship with Nollywood filmmaker Kunle Afolayan, courting again to their work on the 2008 movie The Figurine.
In a put up shared through Instagram on Tuesday, Oboli revealed that watching Afolayan work on the set of The Figurine impressed her ambition to turn into a director.
“When I was on the set of The Figurine, I was always behind the camera with Kunle, like you would think I was his sister. I was always behind him,” she mentioned.
“The truth is, that was one of the things that made me want to be a director so bad. Watching him do his work with so much zeal and enthusiasm, diligence, I was like, you know what, ‘I wanna do this.’ I kept saying it right beside him,” she added.
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Oboli additionally praised Afolayan for recognising the potential of a location in KAP Film Village, describing his resolution to make use of the surroundings as a signal of artistic imaginative and prescient.
“I walked into this place, and I was like, oh my days. I was saying to them, I said, so wait, it must have been a bush when you came in, and he saw this forest and said, ‘I can work with this.’ I said it takes a certain kind of audacity to think like that, so well done,” she mentioned.
Responding to her reward, Afolayan mentioned, “Thank you, darling.”
Oboli additional famous that many individuals didn’t understand how far again their skilled relationship went.
“A lot of people don’t know that we go way back,” she mentioned, with Afolayan agreeing.
In the video that Afolayan additionally collaborated with Oboli on Instagram, he mentioned, “My journey with Omoni Oboli started in 2008 with The Figurine ‘Araromire’ and we are still here,” he wrote. “I am very proud of your achievement so far. Keep winning.”
