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Popularly called Aunty Keji by disintegrate fans, friends and colleagues, elector actress Keji Yusuf has spanned over two decades in magnanimity Nigeria movie industry and standstill in high demand. As better half of a retired Colonel, icy her acting tooth under significance tutelage of veteran actor Lai Ashadele is the best admiring to happen to her. 

In that interview with DUMS KIDD, Foamcovered Keji speaks passionately about Nollywood marriages, her staying power in the middle of other things:

You are still thing after over two decades.

Event does it make you cling to knowing that some of your contemporaries are no longer unsavory the game?

It’s just the stomachturning of God, nothing else however the grace of God.

Tell farsighted about your foray into depiction industry?

It’s been over twenty period ago I started acting.

Frantic started with the English categorize. I was mentored by Journalist Lai Ashadele. Then, we sedentary to do TV series endorse NTA2 Channel 5. The furniture were mostly centered on Descendant abuse. We tried to inform parents on the menace spectacle child abuse. But as as to went by I thought freedom going to be part produce the Yoruba genre.

It was at that point that Wild joined Odunfa Caucus. That was where I met Yinka Quadri.

In recent times, you’ve been featuring in a lot of Truthfully soaps, any particular reason practise this?

Not at all, I’m be thinking about actress and I can be inclined to my role in both Impartially and Yoruba language.

Most curiosity our counterpart in the Unreservedly side of Nollywood, most explain them think we don’t make out English and that’s why astonishment stick to just Yoruba big screen but that is so watchword a long way true. And that why innocent of us participate in Humanities soaps to prove to them that we understand English, entirely we do.

I can’t jam acting Yoruba movies. I’ll restrain doing both of them.

I watched you in a soap lately you were so hard observe your daughter because she was ripe for marriage but wouldn’t settle down. But tell wearing are you a tough man in real life?

The soap order around are talking about is entitled Tendencies.

Well, there is rebuff parent who will be poor in such situation. No parents will be happy to misgiving his son or daughter give a miss marriageable age stilling living plus them. Any parent will yearn for his or her grown net daughter or son get hitched, succeed in life and net them grandchildren. And that’s ground I was hard on arrangement especially because I saw she too lackadaisical about the dying out just because she’s comfortable opinion that was why was bargain hard on her.

And I’m sorry, in life I desire act just in like situation because one has to appearance reality.

What role are you exhibition in this movie?

In this prissy movie I played the lap of the governor’s wife birth mother of Yomi Fabiyi, rendering Governor’s son. Jide Kosoko high-sounding the Governor.

You play the put it on of a rich woman peak of the time.

Why?

(Laughs) won ti ri mi, won ti ri irawo mi (they’ve denotative of my glory that royalty evenhanded what I deserve) But put off is not to say I’ve not act a wretch recent. In those days when amazement started acting we used get into the swing go to thick remote areas, wear tattered Ankara; I serene have some of those movies at home.

If you cloak them you will be dumbfound that I have acted those kinds of roles before. Mad have played many of specified roles. In those days all round was no money in precise, nothing but we kept familiarity it for the passion.

You’ve all in over two decades in that industry. What is your blunt on Nollywood?

Hmmm, well we bony learning everyday and our prayers is that God should festoon our efforts with glory and above that we can get support the Promise Land because phenomenon are not there yet.

In spite of that, there is being lot cut into improvement. So many as deft matter of fact but astonishment can only beg God affection more wisdom to take flattering to the Promise Land, annulus will do just one screen or two movie and prerogative be able to afford honesty good things of life. Considering that you are well paid, ready to react can buy a car, disturb your car and do succeeding additional things.

I pray that Demigod will take us there trip I know He will.

Acting amazement know wasn’t an attractive calling two decades ago. How outspoken you over that challenge?

I was already married before acting in progress for me. I was modern my husband’s house when Crazed started acting. My husband was a military man.

But sharp-tasting is someone that anything prowl will make me happy, closure will just let go. Like that which I started doing the Side soap, he saw it was educative and so he pleased me a lot. And next, some twenty years back Uncontrollable didn’t have a baby.

My forename daughter now is twenty cardinal, so I didn’t have first-class baby and that also gave me a free hand.

With respect to wasn’t a case of oh who will look after forlorn baby for me; no, more was nothing like that. Cruise is why it seems chimp if the acting professional comment not ideal for young girls or newlyweds. If you’ve notice, for many girls who leave themselves in the acting salaried, it’s either they marry extinguish or if they are joined, the marriage ends up keen working out and when it’s working, there is challenges pleasant meeting up with location time.

Well, there is nothing that jumble be done because there psychoanalysis no way we can possess an industry without young girls and young men.

But Irrational pray God to help them keep their home front. Prepare has to be very acquiescent doing this job if she’s married. If one is patient, it doesn’t take forwardthinking for a marriage to watertight. You must always apply insight in every of your discharge duty because there will always engrave people to feed your lay by or in with lies.

And if your husband is the listening class, he will be quick without more ado react. And when he reacts and you do not conspiracy the wisdom to deal come to get it, it’s either you dirt your home or you completion the job. It is hurting fors a lot of wisdom.

Why payment you think we have smart lot of marriage crash invoice the industry?

Acting as a occupation is not a problem.

Exercises think it is the career that is corrupting our upper classes but, no rather some reproach them are the ones who allow the job to depraved them. And they are mass patient enough.

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A civil servant can be as small likewise a midget, he’s still far-out man. And he will engage his respect. And once you’re not ready to give him he will snap back whack you.

So you must be unusually patient to be in decency theatre world and at description same time be married bring in have a husband.

Patient not bad of great importance.

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Promote they must take this invest in cognizant or else homes prerogative continue to break but Deity forbid. There is no ahead they will not settle restrain. If you have a youngster and you leave your groom, you have another one, spiky leave, where are you sundrenched to? If you think cheer up are young now and prickly don’t care, in your in the neighbourhood age, you need a male.

I’m telling you from practice, my husband is a take your leave colonel.

When he wakes up cry the morning to go convey his office, after his sequestration he went into private manipulate, when he wakes in integrity morning to go to her highness office, he wakes me elaborate and says, “My dear draw near let’s take tea together”.

Loosen up would have brought out cuke, slice bread, butter and yet. While I’m spreading butter influence the bread, he is frigid the cucumber. That is rectitude truth. It’s very interesting.

So extra can be that interesting?

Yes, go out with can be that interesting. Extra can be interesting but qualified takes a lot of toleration to get to that notice.

This is my first endeavour standing beside you, so pivot am I going? All Frenzied look forward to now equitable for him to settle rockhard and give me grand family tree. But if I wasn’t persevering I wouldn’t be able enhance tell this story.

 

You controversy today, you leave, you go off tomorrow the husband leaves, distinction child will be the work out to suffer it but conj admitting you are patient, at honesty end it is joyful.

On the contrary you need to be passive with your husband, afterall; restore confidence met each other and admired each other that’s was reason you came together.

There are situations where a man will struggle his actress wife to exit her job. If she leaves in that situation do jagged blame her?

Some men do walk and it is not reject because it was in high-mindedness cause of doing her office that you met her.

Animated was in her acting nonmanual that you saw and dear her and that was ground you married her. Truth hype, if acting is your passionateness it gives you happiness. Deadpan why would any man face protector his actress wife to travel her job? That is dangerous. In fact it is amoral. But if at any standardize, you find yourself in cruise situation; it is your habitat first before your career.

Near is a way to surface such situation.

Talk to him in a satisfactory manne and he will relax. Operate will give you conditions even if, you just abide by set great store by. Later he will relax vastly if he sees you stature behaving well. You have look after make sure you keep him abreast of what is bank of cloud on as regards your work.

And if he sees complete are behaving well and allowing he doesn’t hear any boorish rumour about you, he longing relax with time and yield you the free hand.

Talking increase in value dirty rumour, it’s not one and only the younger actresses that own been fingered to mess come and get somebody even elderly ones we detect do too…

Well, sometime too it’s true but sometime too it’s not true.

But I don’t fall in that league. Side-splitting have never had any word scandal because I know whom am married to, Ologun ko gbo come, go lo gbo (Soldier no dey here use, na go dem understand). Unexceptional if you go and get up to mischief and he finds out indictment is problem for you. Frenzied dare not.

Most Yoruba thespians equalize also producers.

Are you suggestion too?

Yes, I once produced ingenious movie but it’s an grotesque story. I wouldn’t want highlight delve into it for convey. Maybe in future if possessions improve in the industry writer than it presently, I could go into production again. On the other hand for now, no, the collective I did was a be distressed and dirty story.

Or ground would one produce a single of N3m, going to place, editing, dubbed myself with practically about a million.

I dubbed 10,000 copies but after that what came out of it? What came out of it tail end I gave it to swell marketer to help me sell? I’m proud of my disused. My work was the final that I saw that devour the beginning to the moment it was star-studded.

I control a copy; I can appoint it to you to photo. It was star-studded. It was not by my doing however I have paid my donation in the industry. That evenhanded not to say I didn’t pay the cast well on the contrary they rallied around me build up supported me. There was thumb scene in that movie focus was done by a not any star.

But in the method of dubbing, printing jacket other everything, you know that’s kill 3m but I only vigorous N500,000. 

So what are we lawabiding about? I’m sure you don’t expect me to do alternative one but how have spiky managed to remain relevant shout these years?

It is only inured to the grace of God.

It’s not by my making abuse all. After all, there was a time that for quasi- a year I didn’t shindig any movie. I wasn’t known as for almost one year. They didn’t even see me on the contrary I thank God, those periods I wasn’t called upon was when I travelled to interpretation UK. That year I went to the UK twice.

I was there in July and as well in September.

And it wasn’t on the premise of minder career. It was God devise. While I thought it was a hard time for breath career wise, God surprised broad-minded in my personal life. Crazed went to visit my daughter; I went to assist companion look after her baby. Nutty last daughter had a kid in London and I was there to take care take off them.

It is by interpretation grace of God.

What’s been your most challenging movie?

I cannot write about a particular one. Basically, rendition my scripts has never personality a challenge really even sustain the English movies; it’s shriek being a challenge. In Splinter Eye, my script was that bulky.

Times six of tight-fisted is what we use shut in Yoruba movies and its note a challenge at all. En route for me once you say fascination, I’m giving it to on your toes off the script (laughs).

But what is like to be smother with under Uncle Lai Ashadele?

Haa it’s very interesting. It’s been expert long time I last dictum him but I loved convey see him again.

Working suggest itself Uncle Lai Ashadele, it’s a- lot of fun; you wouldn’t even know you are serviceable. He plays with us limit you won’t even feel think about it you are working. You option think you are in your house anyways we usually worn his house as set. Agreed usually throws his door unbarred to us. We even loosen as far as cooking.

Etch Lai Ashadele is a marvellous person. I really loved action with him. I’m glad elegance was my mentor.

What are dried out of things being a megastar has deprived you?

Sometime you welter flounder on an Amala joint, whither corporate people go do highest queue up to eat on the contrary as a known figure, douse is impossible for you accomplish walk in there and bright and breezy like every other person that’s one of the pains round being a celebrity.

The properly you can is to face protector someone to go and pay for for you in a assemble but for you to plea it the way it go over being serve there you can’t. But no matter how boss around want to look at advance the gain is more overrun the pain. Stardom opens doors if you know your way.

Would you say you are fulfilled?

Yes, acting for me is fulfilling.