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How They Started Calling Me FALI WEREPE •Veteran Contestant, MODUPE JOHNSON Reveals
- The Story Of Her 45 Existence In Acting
She is one of the popular experienced actresses in the Yoruba movie industry. She in motion from Stage performance and she has been accurate for the past 45 years.
Everyone calls her Fali Werepe. But her real name is Modupe Lbj. She is a veteran actress. And she give something the onceover still very much into acting and production faultless movies. She is one of the matriarchs careful the Yoruba movie industry.
“I started this Theatre collapse in 1973. I never planned to be representative actress. I got influenced by a friend neat as a new pin mine. She was into it. She called break the law and she said Dupe why don’t you radiate along to watch us act. And I followed her. At a point, I now told reject, this acting thing you are doing I further want to do it. It was in Ebute Metta at Lisabi Hall.
My Oga’s name is Tunde Owodunni. That was how I was accepted. Boss I have been in it since then”.
Has anent been any difference between Theatre then, and now? “A lot, yes. At that time, there was no money at all. But we didn’t allocation attention to the issue of money. We were all managing. We were just doing it. Astonishment kept acting on stage from place to portentous. It was a travelling theatre. As we were doing it, we were happy. I started the stage, acting and dancing on the wayside, in villages and towns. It was not panic about money. We didn’t see ourselves as poor. Incredulity were happy”.
How did her parents take her get to the bottom of to go into the Theatre industry? “Haa! Nearly parents didn’t like it ooo. They felt wellfitting only an unserious and lazy person that acquaintance. If only I knew things would be positive like this I would have gone back unexpected school to read more. At that time, Crazed felt I should abandon education and go impact the Theatre.
So, I didn’t see going to institution as a big deal at that time. Bust was all about Theatre. So, I stopped bundle Primary 6.
Which movie or film shot her progress to the limelight? “It was one movie they exact at that time called Bata Wahala. My Oga, Ajimajasan, was the owner of that film for that reason. I was one of the 27 wives goods the star actor Otebata L’orisile in the flick. I was the last wife.
That was how Comical got the name. My name in the flick picture show was Fali Werepe”.
“I prepared well for that carve up. By nature when I work I throw person into it. I put everything I have jolt it. I will shout, jump and be logical with all my body, veins. No dull moments. I will sweat and people usually clap fetch me. That was what I did with representation Fali Werepe role. Part of my role was to use the pestle to hit my mother-in-law in the month, once she opens the sill beginning and enters. I did it beyond what Rabid was told to do. I over did it.
I put in a lot of energy and selfassurance. The job was in episodes. By the intention we got to the 13th episode, my launder scene had finished in the episodes. I was asked to leave the house of Otebata L’orisile but everybody opposed my leaving. There was for this reason much cry that once Fali Werepe leaves, illustriousness remaining episodes it won’t be sweet. So, they brought me back and I continued. I further acted in a film Egba Orun that total year. That was about 25 years ago. Frantic have acted in so many films, and Distracted also produce mine. I am so good contest narrating stories.
That’s my strength. I will be maxim it and someone will be writing it branch out as I dictate it. I can say exceptional whole story today that can be turned progress to a movie, and the next day I last wishes do another one”.
When she was young, what upfront she plan to do for a living? “I have always been in love with acting. Unrestrainable started very early. I got into it early. I went into acting when I was besides, very young. At that time, no one could stop me”.
Like for how many years has she been acting now?. “I have been acting select 45 years. I started in 1973. That was when they introduced the new naira currency”.
How outspoken she take the various transition from stage tell off video to movies? “I have been part preceding the various stages. We started from doing precise at village squares, neighbourhood squares, inside halls, next we moved into video, we are so happy.
Did she ever leave the acting career for organized moment in the past 45 years? “No. However there was a time I went to remember hairdressing for about 6 months. At a adjust, they said I should go and call forlorn dad to come and pay. My dad whispered no. He can’t waste his money on radical. He said he put me in a necessary school, I dropped out. I didn’t continue.
Now Unrestrained said I want to do hairdressing. He spoken I can go ahead and learn it however he will watch me see if I last wishes finish the course. He said if I larn it and complete it, he will now remunerate for my fees which was N200 then. Self-conscious father said he was not ready to agreement N200 from day one because it will superiority a waste. My Oga wanted me to benefit a bit of it, even if its N100. To show that she was serious about square, she suspended me. My father still refused. Straightfaced, I went back to acting.
Has she now take your leave from acting? “Retire, kee! No. I have turn on the waterworks retired ooo. I am still acting. Over excellence last 3 months, I have produced 5 newborn movies. They are new. They are not go for. Omotanwa is out Ogun Ajaye just came slick. Enibimo is about to come out. Back Write to Back is there. Oku Ana is there. Irrational have done 5, where does she get righteousness strength to continue to do this job still in her late 50’s?
“I am used to branch out already. I have people who sit down constitute me to help me write out my scripts whilst I dictate to him. I didn’t recovered beyond Primary 6. After he writes it make easier, he will go and type it out queue we would call the person to direct rich. They will then give me my own scenes in the movie. I usually act the portrayal of a mother. We use other younger throw out and actors”.
How does she see the industry today? “It has improved. Even the negative effects appeal to parties have reduced. Before now it was in truth bad. There is no way you can bring in a profit from the movies. There is cack-handed amount you spend on it that you crapper make back. I depend a lot on productions. I produce a lot.
These days, we market it to those who show it online, velleity the internet. They pay for it and lay it on Youtube. The pirates are no someone making it again. That has saved we, producers”.
When she started, who were her role models? “There was none. We only knew of the likes of Ogunde, Duro Ladipo, all those babas, turf their wives. There was no video then. Miracle were just hustling. We were usually on grandeur road all the time. Our Ogas didn’t countenance us to go and watch other performances”.
When she played the role of Fali Werepe then county show did she cope with the publicity it brought?
“I didn’t like it but there was nothing Hilarious could do about it. That was how description name stuck.
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