- Actress Funke Akindele has delivered a lighthearted response to her fellow actor, Jigan BabaOja, who recently aired his grievances on social media regarding movie roles.
- In a playful exchange, the comic actor playfully ribbed Funke, a prominent filmmaker, for leaving him out of the cast in her cinema-bound productions.
Funke Akindele, the renowned actress and filmmaker, has playfully responded to her colleague Jigan Babaoja’s amusing demand to cast him in a movie.
After the success of Funke’s latest series, “She Must Be Obeyed,” Jigan took to Instagram and issued a lighthearted ultimatum, giving Funke just 24 hours to cook up a script about him.
In a recent Instagram video, Jigan, initially speaking in English but later switching to Yoruba, tipped his hat to Funke’s impressive journey in the film industry before demanding a movie role.
“Funke Akindele, I am giving you 24 hours, to write a story about me that will be going to the cinema and get back to me,” Jigan said in parts.
“@funkejenifaakindele you have 24 hours to attend to this letter! Tag her continuously! Eyin goons another case is on ground Na everybody e go touch make una calm down,” the 40-year-old actor captioned the video.
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Commenting on the post, Funke, unable to contain her laughter, playfully labeled Jigan as an absolute nutcase.
“Werey lo jo,” she wrote in Yoruba with laugh emojis.
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In related news, Nollywood actress and filmmaker, Funke Akindele has recounted how she was denied playing major roles during her days as a struggling thespian because people tagged her as “not fine.”
Speaking in the latest episode of the TokeMoments podcast, hosted by Toke Makinwa, Akindele said she lost major roles even in Yoruba indigenous movies because of her physique.
She recalled that actress Iyabo Ojo helped her several times during her altercations with filmmakers who turned her down because of her looks.
The ‘Jenifa Diary’ actress said producers were giving her just minor roles which made her cry.
“I remember people telling me, ‘You are not fine. You don’t have ass. You don’t have boobs. You will not be in this film,” she recalled.
“And, I remember crying. A lot of times I would cry, break down, get into the bathroom and cry.”