One out of the highly respected and popular actresses in the Yoruba movie genre of Nollywood, Toyin Adegbola whom several movie marketers and directors dare not toy with due to her acting prowess speaks with Gbolahan Adetayo on being a single mother, her low-cut, men and the defining moment of her career.
On how she cope with the tedious job and raising her children as a single mother? I have people living in my house. My sisters and even my sisters-in-law live with me in my hose. They normally take charge of the home when I am not available. More over, immediately I lost my husband, my children left this country.
On the muse behind the low-cut hair she's been wearing? I started adorning this low-cut 13 years ago, that was in 2000 just as a sign of respect for my late husband. Later I wanted to change by plaiting my hair but my fans said I should leave it. So since then, It have been on low cuts.
How did you meet your husband? I met my late husband, late Anthony Kolawole Adegbola while I was working at the television house. He was at the Lagos branch, but there was a time he came to Ibadan for a meeting and that was how we met.
On how she cope with men who want to have fun with her secretly? I don't even have time for all that because I believe I have to take care of my children because hey are my tomorrow.And there is no man out there who'll be ready to pay my children's school fees or will be ready to take me home. None of them is ready to take care of my large responsibilities.
On the defining moment of her career? I was when my movie, 'Asewo To Re Mecca', came out in the early 90s, it waent all over the place.That should be my defining moment because I was moving around and people were calling me 'Ase To Re Mecca', even when I went to Jerusalem they called me Asewo.
What would you have been if not an actress? I would have been a nurse; this is because when I was younger, I used to admire one of my mother’s friends, who was a nurse. I loved the way she looked in her white uniform, but as God would have it, I am now a veteran actress.
Also added from Nigeria's Tribune .
source: alabamau2
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