Nollywood actress, Amanda Ebeye in an interview tells why she does more of soap operas than Nollywood movies.
You
became popular in the television series, Clinic Matters; is there any
difference between you and the character you portrayed in the soap?
Yes,
it’s a world of difference between the character, Abigail and I.
Abigail is known to be very nosy, she is two-faced and has issues and
controversy surrounding her. She also gossips a lot. I talk but not to
the detriment of other people. I was only portraying a character to the
best of my understanding at that time.
But do you gossip, and are you temperamental in real life as you act in the soap opera?
Yes.
I could be a little bit temperamental but not a big time gossip like
Nurse Abigail. I talk too but who doesn’t? I can never scandalise, lie
or bring people down; never. On several occasions I’ve had a lot of
people say, maybe when I get upset, I yell. They assume I am just as
Nurse Abigail in reality. It is very funny because whatever I portray
is what I would have done if I was truly that character. It is not who I
am. If I was a gossip, a liar, a prostitute, a pilot; it is all in my
head, it is my imagination, my creation and not who I am in real life.
But when people talk like that, I feel honoured because I feel I gave
the character my best shot.
Why do you do more of soaps than movies?
There
was a time I stopped doing movies and concentrated on soap operas. That
was between 2009 and 2011. And since 2011, I have been doing strictly
movies apart from Bella’s Place that is owned by Royal Roots.
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