Nollywood actress Maureen Solomon, has been MIA from the film enterprise for 7-years now.
In a new interview with inner Nollywood, she unfolded approximately her absence and her take at the films produced in recent times.
in line with Maureen, Asaba produced films are not exceptional from those proven in the cinemas.
examine her interview below:
It appears marriage has modified you. You look more beautiful, what is the secret?
thank you expensive. to start with, it's far God that has made me stunning. I recognise and i am positive that it’s Him. Secondly, I don’t exit a lot. So, it’s peace of mind, nothing plenty and no mystery without a doubt.
You’re one of the actresses that people loved to observe in those days. Your fans would like to recognize why you've got been off the display screen for see you later?
It’s not a lot silence due to the fact I need it to be so, however the fact that i am targeted greater on the own family the front, which I experience is greater crucial.
For these types of years, i'm thankful for the time that i have spent with my circle of relatives, and keep to spend.
i've devoted my time to my kids for some time now. So, right now, i'm coming lower back to work. My absence all these years has been because of my own family.
there's this hearsay that your husband stopped you from appearing. Is there any atom of truth in that?
As a count of fact, I were given married in 2005 and that i acted until 2011. The last time I did a film turned into in 2011 and my husband by no means stopped me.
So, i ponder why he might prevent me in the middle of the manner. My husband certainly encourages my paintings, even in my going lower back now by means of the grace of God.
it's miles still him that is pushing me and he'll constantly spur me to do greater matters, no longer simply the everyday aspect we know of.
So, he by no means stopped me, i finished myself due to the fact I needed to devote more time to my youngsters.
My last residence female left as at the time I determined to stay domestic and i decided now not to get any other one. I almost had to turn out to be the house lady.
The closing time you featured in a film changed into 2011. What film became that?
sure, I did movies in 2011. One become Uche Elendu’s movie. I co-produced her film, ‘In Too Deep’.
I assume that turned into the closing predominant movie I did. the alternative one, I recall I travelled to Oba to shoot it. i will’t even do not forget the name. those were the final films I did before i ended.
That’s seven years of silence. Don’t you watched it’s too long?
It’s no longer too lengthy. funny sufficient, to some humans, it's far. when I appearance back to after I started out in the industry till now, it seems like it was the day prior to this. Seven years for me is not a long term.
What would you say has modified within the enterprise between while you left and now?
truly talking, a few people might go loopy due to what i'm attempting to say.
The only distinction that i will see is the truth that, we can now visit the cinema. Our films are actually in the cinema, but as a ways as i'm concerned, maximum of the storylines are nonetheless the same.
It hasn’t modified which I would like so much for it to.
Few weeks ago, Rita Dominic made a comment that Nollywood producers rush to the cinemas to expose low first-class movies, and some manufacturers went for her head. Do you consider her opinion?
That became why I stated a whole lot of human beings might not like what i am going to say.
If I must say my mind, quite a few human beings are going to move crazy. nothing has modified within the enterprise; there is not anything distinctive from the movies you watch within the cinema and the movies that they produce in Asaba.
For me, it's miles just the higher and fine gear getting used.
What’s the way forward for exceptional movies?
My husband is my largest critic. So, i will say that it's miles either the creative people are not being given sufficient possibility or the leadership of Nollywood in some way lacks creativity.
We need originality and creativity and i understand that in Nigeria, we have abundance of such human beings, but either that they don’t have the opportunities.
aside from creativity, we nonetheless want humans in the location of sponsorship, and those that will spur us to transport forward. I realize thoroughly that we have a variety of innovative people and quite a few original ideas however we lack the possibility and help to get them out.
speakme approximately creativity, we've got new vegetation of people within the industry now. would you say that producers opt to use these new vegetation of actors?
i will’t certainly say however I recognise that most of these new actors are properly.
but there are nonetheless a number of them that need numerous education. i have heard in some locations that the old actors want to come back again, as they don’t recognize the brand new ones.
I don’t know if that is a praise or some thing else, i have heard people say that to me a lot. We don’t have locations in which new actors can certainly pass and teach.
And on the issue of them being favored with the aid of the producers, i'm able to’t surely say, however I know it has continually been a norm inside the enterprise for producers to move for the person who the face will promote market greater. So, if they think that the brand new faces sell market extra, perhaps this is why, however I realize to a massive quantity that, manufacturers don’t name humans because they're superb.
might you also attribute this to the expenses they pay to the new ones compared to the antique ones?
To be honest, I assume there are some antique ones that won’t thoughts something costs they may be paying to the brand new ones.
I realize an entire lot of human beings could say there are no jobs, like the antique ones will say there aren't any jobs coming their manner. So, I don’t suppose it’s the expenses however the faces that promote films.
there may be this rumour that people in the industry use devilish power or what they name ‘juju’ on others. Is that real?
Are you kidding me? I haven't any idea. like you heard, i've also heard however my own prayer is that I don’t stumble upon anyone that does that.
but i ponder why they could must do this, the enterprise is so massive, it is able to incorporate absolutely everyone. So, why might they need the ones fetish and devilish things? Is it for more paintings? you may’t also be on three one of a kind places at a time.
How did you come into the industry within the first region?
i have continually wanted to act. In my nursery school days, the foremost programme I took part became dancing.
Then from my number one to secondary school, there was no drama that I didn’t partake. My mom has always recognised that to be a part of me.
So, after I watched films, i would be like, ‘mummy I need to behave’ and she would always snigger. My mom become operating with the Union bank then and she always says that Pete Edochie become certainly one of their customers.
So, in my thoughts, i would say ‘will this girl ever introduce me to him?’ but I in no way knew how to tell her. Then, there has been at the moment that everybody in my residence traveled apart from my elder sister.
I came again and he or she wasn’t at domestic, but a person advised me in which she went. I went there to collect the residence key however once I got there, they have been having an audition.
They had been asking some human beings to behave this way and others that way. the person that was directing was Lancelot Odua Imasuen. And he stated, ‘you this way’. I forgot the important thing that I went to accumulate and joined the queue.
the following day, my sister came domestic and stated that my call got here out. And that become it; that became how I did my first movie, ‘opportunity’.
From there, I persevered. I started out in the enterprise early sufficient, I got into the industry while i used to be 17 going on 18 and in December 2005, I got married.
How a lot had been you paid for that film?
N2,000 and i played six scenes, and it became a large deal for me. It became my 2nd time to earn cash.
before that time, I had worked as a receptionist somewhere; the manger chased me to my house, I assume he desired to woo me, and after that one month, I accrued my N4,500 salary and ran away.
What’s the worst issue you have ever heard approximately your self?
The simplest issue that I heard that introduced me to tears became rapidly after my first film.
It turned into a story in a newspaper. i'm able to’t don't forget the exact identify, something like ‘Maureen Solomon on the rumpus aspect’, that become whilst i was relationship one of the actors.
They said that a guy had a fight with a director over me. but there was no fight absolutely. It become when we had been doing ‘wide Revenge’, in which I had my first lead position.
i used to be supposed to play the younger model of a person and my boyfriend at that time stated no.
It created small rancour but it wasn’t like a fight however the paper turned the tale the other way up. That changed into when my mother sat me down and counseled me to use cuticle to cowl my ears if i really like my job.
To make a comeback, it has emerge as a fashion for actors to supply their personal movies. What are you running on right now?
It’s truely no longer a horrific idea. i am simply tilting in the direction of that aspect. i've a variety of scripts but i am truely looking forward to the proper second.
As you may see, film isn't always the handiest thing I do now, i've delved into different things as properly.
On acting, if I see an excellent script i'm able to definitely take it. funny sufficient, most of these whilst that i've been at home, scripts got here every now and then however it’s not what I wanted to do as a comeback.
Come on, i've been out of the display for some time, I imply if i'm coming returned, it need to be some thing tight, although it’s now not my own movie, it have to be something tight.
speakme about my own movie, actually, however one location i am sincerely searching at is directing.
It has usually been my ardour but for some reasons, i ended up in the front of the digicam. Now, I think i'm extra balanced to chase that dream. i'm now not announcing that i am not going to act however will do greater of producing and directing.
What would you want to be remembered for inside the industry?
i've visible loads within the enterprise, most of the tales that we play for humans to watch are surely our very own lifestyles.
I wanted to submit something on facebook the alternative day however I fast wiped it off, due to the fact I recognize humans could come for my head.
i was watching a movie the other day and it dawned on me that we do these dramas regular but we don’t analyze from them. We do movies approximately broken homes but we don’t research from them, it's far always our houses which might be breaking.
It doesn’t make feel. We tell the testimonies but we don’t examine from them. So, I trust and i'm praying to God that my coming lower back to the industry is to exchange lives and now not simply looking for the cash.
If it's miles for the reputation, I don’t think i will get extra famous than i am now, I don’t recognise how well-known i'm besides.
My coming returned to the enterprise is strictly to alternate lives, now not just the human beings which are watching but additionally the people that i am working with. that's what i am hoping for because an entire lot of times, I don’t recognise if we're blind, we do matters however we don’t examine ourselves.
however, the script interpreter revealed that while growing up, her massive boobs made her sense atypical among her peers. “It genuinely did. but after a while, I were given to realize it’s simply a blessing and no longer abnormality. it is a blessing to me now (smiles).”
talking further, Idika said that she has a completely forgiving and romantic persona. “I’m a very romantic person. i can’t attest for myself, but I’m very certain I’ve were given some impossible to resist charms.
I simply do the exceptional within my capability to take care of my man. however if I seize him cheating on me, I’ll stroll out, go somewhere quiet and consider my next circulate, maybe over a drink.
however, if later he’s remorseful, of route I’ll take him again. That he cheated doesn’t certainly mean he doesn’t love me enough, but if cheating turns into his life-style, I’m so commencing,” she confident.
In a new interview with inner Nollywood, she unfolded approximately her absence and her take at the films produced in recent times.
in line with Maureen, Asaba produced films are not exceptional from those proven in the cinemas.
examine her interview below:
It appears marriage has modified you. You look more beautiful, what is the secret?
thank you expensive. to start with, it's far God that has made me stunning. I recognise and i am positive that it’s Him. Secondly, I don’t exit a lot. So, it’s peace of mind, nothing plenty and no mystery without a doubt.
You’re one of the actresses that people loved to observe in those days. Your fans would like to recognize why you've got been off the display screen for see you later?
It’s not a lot silence due to the fact I need it to be so, however the fact that i am targeted greater on the own family the front, which I experience is greater crucial.
For these types of years, i'm thankful for the time that i have spent with my circle of relatives, and keep to spend.
i've devoted my time to my kids for some time now. So, right now, i'm coming lower back to work. My absence all these years has been because of my own family.
there's this hearsay that your husband stopped you from appearing. Is there any atom of truth in that?
As a count of fact, I were given married in 2005 and that i acted until 2011. The last time I did a film turned into in 2011 and my husband by no means stopped me.
So, i ponder why he might prevent me in the middle of the manner. My husband certainly encourages my paintings, even in my going lower back now by means of the grace of God.
it's miles still him that is pushing me and he'll constantly spur me to do greater matters, no longer simply the everyday aspect we know of.
So, he by no means stopped me, i finished myself due to the fact I needed to devote more time to my youngsters.
My last residence female left as at the time I determined to stay domestic and i decided now not to get any other one. I almost had to turn out to be the house lady.
The closing time you featured in a film changed into 2011. What film became that?
sure, I did movies in 2011. One become Uche Elendu’s movie. I co-produced her film, ‘In Too Deep’.
I assume that turned into the closing predominant movie I did. the alternative one, I recall I travelled to Oba to shoot it. i will’t even do not forget the name. those were the final films I did before i ended.
That’s seven years of silence. Don’t you watched it’s too long?
It’s no longer too lengthy. funny sufficient, to some humans, it's far. when I appearance back to after I started out in the industry till now, it seems like it was the day prior to this. Seven years for me is not a long term.
What would you say has modified within the enterprise between while you left and now?
truly talking, a few people might go loopy due to what i'm attempting to say.
The only distinction that i will see is the truth that, we can now visit the cinema. Our films are actually in the cinema, but as a ways as i'm concerned, maximum of the storylines are nonetheless the same.
It hasn’t modified which I would like so much for it to.
Few weeks ago, Rita Dominic made a comment that Nollywood producers rush to the cinemas to expose low first-class movies, and some manufacturers went for her head. Do you consider her opinion?
That became why I stated a whole lot of human beings might not like what i am going to say.
If I must say my mind, quite a few human beings are going to move crazy. nothing has modified within the enterprise; there is not anything distinctive from the movies you watch within the cinema and the movies that they produce in Asaba.
For me, it's miles just the higher and fine gear getting used.
What’s the way forward for exceptional movies?
My husband is my largest critic. So, i will say that it's miles either the creative people are not being given sufficient possibility or the leadership of Nollywood in some way lacks creativity.
We need originality and creativity and i understand that in Nigeria, we have abundance of such human beings, but either that they don’t have the opportunities.
aside from creativity, we nonetheless want humans in the location of sponsorship, and those that will spur us to transport forward. I realize thoroughly that we have a variety of innovative people and quite a few original ideas however we lack the possibility and help to get them out.
speakme approximately creativity, we've got new vegetation of people within the industry now. would you say that producers opt to use these new vegetation of actors?
i will’t certainly say however I recognise that most of these new actors are properly.
but there are nonetheless a number of them that need numerous education. i have heard in some locations that the old actors want to come back again, as they don’t recognize the brand new ones.
I don’t know if that is a praise or some thing else, i have heard people say that to me a lot. We don’t have locations in which new actors can certainly pass and teach.
And on the issue of them being favored with the aid of the producers, i'm able to’t surely say, however I know it has continually been a norm inside the enterprise for producers to move for the person who the face will promote market greater. So, if they think that the brand new faces sell market extra, perhaps this is why, however I realize to a massive quantity that, manufacturers don’t name humans because they're superb.
might you also attribute this to the expenses they pay to the new ones compared to the antique ones?
To be honest, I assume there are some antique ones that won’t thoughts something costs they may be paying to the brand new ones.
I realize an entire lot of human beings could say there are no jobs, like the antique ones will say there aren't any jobs coming their manner. So, I don’t suppose it’s the expenses however the faces that promote films.
there may be this rumour that people in the industry use devilish power or what they name ‘juju’ on others. Is that real?
Are you kidding me? I haven't any idea. like you heard, i've also heard however my own prayer is that I don’t stumble upon anyone that does that.
but i ponder why they could must do this, the enterprise is so massive, it is able to incorporate absolutely everyone. So, why might they need the ones fetish and devilish things? Is it for more paintings? you may’t also be on three one of a kind places at a time.
How did you come into the industry within the first region?
i have continually wanted to act. In my nursery school days, the foremost programme I took part became dancing.
Then from my number one to secondary school, there was no drama that I didn’t partake. My mom has always recognised that to be a part of me.
So, after I watched films, i would be like, ‘mummy I need to behave’ and she would always snigger. My mom become operating with the Union bank then and she always says that Pete Edochie become certainly one of their customers.
So, in my thoughts, i would say ‘will this girl ever introduce me to him?’ but I in no way knew how to tell her. Then, there has been at the moment that everybody in my residence traveled apart from my elder sister.
I came again and he or she wasn’t at domestic, but a person advised me in which she went. I went there to collect the residence key however once I got there, they have been having an audition.
They had been asking some human beings to behave this way and others that way. the person that was directing was Lancelot Odua Imasuen. And he stated, ‘you this way’. I forgot the important thing that I went to accumulate and joined the queue.
the following day, my sister came domestic and stated that my call got here out. And that become it; that became how I did my first movie, ‘opportunity’.
From there, I persevered. I started out in the enterprise early sufficient, I got into the industry while i used to be 17 going on 18 and in December 2005, I got married.
How a lot had been you paid for that film?
N2,000 and i played six scenes, and it became a large deal for me. It became my 2nd time to earn cash.
before that time, I had worked as a receptionist somewhere; the manger chased me to my house, I assume he desired to woo me, and after that one month, I accrued my N4,500 salary and ran away.
What’s the worst issue you have ever heard approximately your self?
The simplest issue that I heard that introduced me to tears became rapidly after my first film.
It turned into a story in a newspaper. i'm able to’t don't forget the exact identify, something like ‘Maureen Solomon on the rumpus aspect’, that become whilst i was relationship one of the actors.
They said that a guy had a fight with a director over me. but there was no fight absolutely. It become when we had been doing ‘wide Revenge’, in which I had my first lead position.
i used to be supposed to play the younger model of a person and my boyfriend at that time stated no.
It created small rancour but it wasn’t like a fight however the paper turned the tale the other way up. That changed into when my mother sat me down and counseled me to use cuticle to cowl my ears if i really like my job.
To make a comeback, it has emerge as a fashion for actors to supply their personal movies. What are you running on right now?
It’s truely no longer a horrific idea. i am simply tilting in the direction of that aspect. i've a variety of scripts but i am truely looking forward to the proper second.
As you may see, film isn't always the handiest thing I do now, i've delved into different things as properly.
On acting, if I see an excellent script i'm able to definitely take it. funny sufficient, most of these whilst that i've been at home, scripts got here every now and then however it’s not what I wanted to do as a comeback.
Come on, i've been out of the display for some time, I imply if i'm coming returned, it need to be some thing tight, although it’s now not my own movie, it have to be something tight.
speakme about my own movie, actually, however one location i am sincerely searching at is directing.
It has usually been my ardour but for some reasons, i ended up in the front of the digicam. Now, I think i'm extra balanced to chase that dream. i'm now not announcing that i am not going to act however will do greater of producing and directing.
What would you want to be remembered for inside the industry?
i've visible loads within the enterprise, most of the tales that we play for humans to watch are surely our very own lifestyles.
I wanted to submit something on facebook the alternative day however I fast wiped it off, due to the fact I recognize humans could come for my head.
i was watching a movie the other day and it dawned on me that we do these dramas regular but we don’t analyze from them. We do movies approximately broken homes but we don’t research from them, it's far always our houses which might be breaking.
It doesn’t make feel. We tell the testimonies but we don’t examine from them. So, I trust and i'm praying to God that my coming lower back to the industry is to exchange lives and now not simply looking for the cash.
If it's miles for the reputation, I don’t think i will get extra famous than i am now, I don’t recognise how well-known i'm besides.
My coming returned to the enterprise is strictly to alternate lives, now not just the human beings which are watching but additionally the people that i am working with. that's what i am hoping for because an entire lot of times, I don’t recognise if we're blind, we do matters however we don’t examine ourselves.
however, the script interpreter revealed that while growing up, her massive boobs made her sense atypical among her peers. “It genuinely did. but after a while, I were given to realize it’s simply a blessing and no longer abnormality. it is a blessing to me now (smiles).”
talking further, Idika said that she has a completely forgiving and romantic persona. “I’m a very romantic person. i can’t attest for myself, but I’m very certain I’ve were given some impossible to resist charms.
I simply do the exceptional within my capability to take care of my man. however if I seize him cheating on me, I’ll stroll out, go somewhere quiet and consider my next circulate, maybe over a drink.
however, if later he’s remorseful, of route I’ll take him again. That he cheated doesn’t certainly mean he doesn’t love me enough, but if cheating turns into his life-style, I’m so commencing,” she confident.
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