Nollywood actress Imade Osawaru said she could play any kind of challenging role in a movie but playing dead and lying in a casket is not one of them.
She noted in a chat with The Nation that playing stereotype roles was out of her play book, after coming through the ranks in acting.
Osaruwa, a Public Administration graduate of the University of Benin and international chef said: “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.
She added that the motivation to choose her own role drove her into producing movies.
“When I started off as an actor and 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 continue like this, I will 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.”
