The veteran actor reflected on the good old days acting comparing it to the modern day acting. Actors act with a lot of realness in movies in the past as compared to modern day movies, he noted.
In an interview with Hip TV, Wale Ojo took viewers through a nostalgic journey mentioning some of the actors that delivered their roles to perfection in the past. “The stories were really exciting and the acting was great,” he added.
Read portions of the interview below;
“When I used to watch the old Nollywood, those were the stories that used to excite me. Those are Ramsey Noah’s flicks, Rita Dominic, Pete Edochie, Omotola Jalade, Genevieve Nnaji. The stories were really good. The acting was great.
“I know that things had moved on, but in this age of artificial intelligence, perhaps, they [morden day actors] have taken on more of artificial acting rather than realness which was there [old Nollywood], and which you actually find more in Yoruba movies, by the way. “I remember watching Hubert Ogundes, Jide Kosoko, Baba Suwe, Papilolo. These were real hard core veterans at that time.
Things have changed and they must change. Things have changed for the better and some things have also changed for the worse. And I can understand this feeling of nostalgia for wanting to go back to the old Nollywood. The wonderful thing would be to marry that old Nollywood now with new Nollywood so that it is a marriage that would please our audiences.”
Wale Ojo started his acting career from childhood appearing in TV shows. He graduated from TV shows to making appearances in UK and Nigerian movies. In 2012, he won the award for Best Actor at the Nigerian Entertainment Awards for his role in ‘Phone Swap’.
