Aki
Award-winning Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ihedieze, aka Aki, seems determined to take his career a notch higher than ever. For this reason, he has become quite choosy about making future appearances in the movies.
It was a changed Aki that told our correspondent, in a brief telephone interview on Tuesday, that gone were the days when he used to appear in a movie because he wanted to keep being visible or relevant in Nollywood.
“Those days when I settled for anything just to be visible are over. Now I go for good quality films. I have reached a point where I cannot settle for anything less. For me, this is the best way forward,” he said.
Just like he mentioned during a recent interview published in an online entertainment blog, Aki said he had just taken part in the shooting of a TV sitcom for MNET, an exotic blend of comedy and family drama titled The Johnsons.
Sounding ecstatic, the popular actor and recipient of the Member of the Federal Republic award in 2010 said the drama series, which was shot in about 25 episodes, would hit the lighted screen in the first week of May.
Although he did not say if his alter-ego, Osita Iheme, was a member of the cast of The Johnsons, Aki seemed assured that the sitcom would ‘steal the show’ from other TV soap operas currently running on MNET channels and draw a lot of attention from the viewers.
Tired of toeing the lines of some producers and directors in Nollywood, the actor has been dreaming up his own pet projects lately. One of them has to do with a plan to change the face of Nollywood in the near future by embarking on a large scale production of films in Igbo language. He expects similar productions in other Nigerian languages to follow his example in due course.
To those movie fans who might be wondering why he has been ‘missing in action’, Aki, who confessed lately that he was inspired by American actor, Gary Coleman, has been preoccupied with repositioning his career.
Apart from featuring in The Johnsons, he plans to work on a new movie with a leading Nollywood producer soon and hopes that it will be accepted as a criterion for measuring quality in due course.
Award-winning Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ihedieze, aka Aki, seems determined to take his career a notch higher than ever. For this reason, he has become quite choosy about making future appearances in the movies.
It was a changed Aki that told our correspondent, in a brief telephone interview on Tuesday, that gone were the days when he used to appear in a movie because he wanted to keep being visible or relevant in Nollywood.
“Those days when I settled for anything just to be visible are over. Now I go for good quality films. I have reached a point where I cannot settle for anything less. For me, this is the best way forward,” he said.
Just like he mentioned during a recent interview published in an online entertainment blog, Aki said he had just taken part in the shooting of a TV sitcom for MNET, an exotic blend of comedy and family drama titled The Johnsons.
Sounding ecstatic, the popular actor and recipient of the Member of the Federal Republic award in 2010 said the drama series, which was shot in about 25 episodes, would hit the lighted screen in the first week of May.
Although he did not say if his alter-ego, Osita Iheme, was a member of the cast of The Johnsons, Aki seemed assured that the sitcom would ‘steal the show’ from other TV soap operas currently running on MNET channels and draw a lot of attention from the viewers.
Tired of toeing the lines of some producers and directors in Nollywood, the actor has been dreaming up his own pet projects lately. One of them has to do with a plan to change the face of Nollywood in the near future by embarking on a large scale production of films in Igbo language. He expects similar productions in other Nigerian languages to follow his example in due course.
To those movie fans who might be wondering why he has been ‘missing in action’, Aki, who confessed lately that he was inspired by American actor, Gary Coleman, has been preoccupied with repositioning his career.
Apart from featuring in The Johnsons, he plans to work on a new movie with a leading Nollywood producer soon and hopes that it will be accepted as a criterion for measuring quality in due course.
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