Behind the scene | 6 April 2007 16:30 CET

I LOVE TALL, HANDSOME MEN--BISI IBIDAPO OBE--

Source: www.nollywoodgists.com

Bisi Ibidapo Obe, one of Nollywood's hottest faces in the Yoruba genre, has found fame and to an extent fortune.She took a lead role in Yemisi Jaiyeola's OJO IBI in 2002 and has continued to grow steadily ever since. She's now a qualified theatre practitioner after her graduation from Yinka Quadri lead “Odunfa Caucus".

In this interview with Nollywoodgists.com, Bisi revealed some things that people don't know about her.

Bisi Ibidapo Obe is a nice girl from Osun State, the third in the family of three boys and three girls. Very accommodating and caring, she has a heart for people and is God fearing. "This is my fourteenth year in the industry, to be precise, and there have been great years with lots of challenges that cannot be recollected but I thank God for everything."

"The issue of sleeping with each other does happen every where. If you are attracted to a director or a producer, there is nothing bad in it, you are both adults it's your choice" she states. But Bisi personally has never experienced it, more so she adds "I am from the ODUNFA Caucus, we are a disciplined set of people."

"We have different Caucuses but the Odunfa Caucus is good, it helps the association to know about you, your welfare and they can easily give an account of us as artists.

"Ojo Ibi by Yemisi Jaiyeola and Olabisis Omologbalogba are the movies that gave me fame, but I've done quite a number of movies, which I can't even remember. I Bisi Ibidapo Obe is different from Bisi Omologbalogba, I am a very straight forward and caring person, while Bisi Omologbalogba is a wayward girl who suffered greatly because of her terrible lifestyle.

I had five awards some were given to me by students, the fifth was from ANTP. I also got one abroad (Dublin to be precise) for which I felt honoured and I love the one from Dublin. I was amazed by the way the audience responded, the recognition was overwhelming."

"There is so much jealousy, envy, discrimination and the will to destroy someone to get to the top. Everyone wants to outdo the other, they've forgotten that we are all gifted differently all this breaks my heart. We are supposed to love one another, my prayer is that the industry should get better than the way it is. I am young in the industry, but lets hope our leaders do it right, besides all this, I love the industry for its creativity."

"I, Bisi Ibidapo Obe, my trust is in God Almighty that those Yoruba actresses who use fetishes to get jobs know them selves and that is why I don't have any best friends in the industry but outside the industry. Opeyemi Ayeola is a very good actress and a talented one, she is a friend but we are not too close.

I have a good and cordial relationship with the English actors, we say hello to each other. Though our language is different, we do feature them in yoruba movies but most of the time they don't invite us for their movies. It's okay, we are still together and one. Besides shooting I have a shop, sell stuffs also, I relax at home watching movies."

"I love being an actress. My structure is a man that is God-fearing, cool-headed, handsome, tall and neat. I detest a man that is talkative, dirty, lazy, without the fear of God. A man that is not educated, I can't pull along with such man. I wouldn't have become a thief nor a prostitute if had not become an actress but I would have been a great businesswoman"

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