Popular actor, Chinedu Ikedieze, aka Aki, had a tough time fielding
questions from school children at the ongoing World Book Capital event
in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State. During the ‘Celebrities Read
to Children’ segment of the event, at the Royal Banquet Hall of Hotel
Presidential on Tuesday, one of the pupils in attendance, a youngster of
about eight years, sent the guests rocking with laughter when he asked,
“Why is Aki so short?”
But barely concealing his embarrassment, Aki patiently explained to the
pupil that he was created that way. “If you look around, you will see
that some people are tall and others are short, even shorter than I am. I
am short because God has created me this way,” he said. Meeting the
actor for the first time, some of the pupils were so excited they
literally pelted him with more questions. They wanted to know his actual
age, if his alter-ego – Osita Iheme aka Pawpaw – was his blood brother
and how he got the pseudonym, Aki.
To the youngster who wanted to know his age, he said, “I am a full
adult. All I can say is that I am above 20 years. I am in my 30s. When I
was as young as you, one of my favourite actors was an American known
as Gary Coleman. He was so short that I used to think he was a boy. I
never knew he was a man.” Regarding his relationship with Pawpaw, Aki
told his young ‘tormentors’ that fate brought them together. “I am from
Abia State and he is a native of Imo State. We never knew each other
before until fate brought us together through Nollywood,” he said.
The actor advised another pupil, who wanted to know how he could become a
Nollywood actor, to get good education first. He said, “The door to
Nollywood is wide open and ready to admit anybody. But you need to go to
school first. If you go to school, you will have a solid foundation.
Most young people that are just going into Nollywood are not aware that
they have to give 70 per cent of their time to education and only 20 per
cent to acting. Education will help you become good actors and
actresses.” Aki concluded his short ‘sermon’ by adding that despite
dividing his time between his studies as a Mass Communications student
of the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu and acting in
Nollywood movies, he had managed to graduate with good grades.
Also, Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor, stunned the audience when she
revealed that she had eight children. She said that while four of them
were her biological children, the rest were adopted. “But I have become
so used to them that I don’t regard them as my adopted children,” she
added, referring to the latter. When asked why she always played the
part of the ‘wicked’ woman in the movies, she replied, “I can’t get
tired of answering this same question all the time. Well, I think it is
because producers and directors discovered that I play such roles very
well. Incidentally my fans seem to enjoy seeing me play the role of a
bad woman,” she said.
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