Lasun Alagbe
Talented actress, Imade Osawaru, has spoken about some of the different roles she has played and the roles she would never play in movies .
According to her, she has never played the role of a mad person.
Imade in a recent interview with The Nation, revealed that she cannot play a role of a dead or mad woman in a film.
According to her, she cannot play such roles in movies because it scares her a lot.
“I think I have played enough roles except that of a mad woman or dead person. I cannot play the role of lying inside a casket. It is scary,” she said.
The University of Benin’s Public Administration graduate and accomplished chef said she decided to become a producer after being stereotyped.
“When I started off, I began as an actor. If you are working for some people, they would want to stereotype you for some certain roles. All the roles they were giving me were seductive roles, a girl trying to snatch someone’s boyfriend or husband. In that role, I must be romantically attracted to people.
I thought to myself that if I continued like this, I would only be getting this kind of role which I don’t want because I can play other roles even better. That was my motivation to go into producing my own movies. That was how I started producing so that I can give myself challenging roles. And since I started producing and because they saw what I can do, they started giving me other roles.
Now I can play the role of a mother, sister, wife and so on.”
