Veteran actor, Richard Mofe
Damijo, has revealed that although he has shared movie sets with his colleague,
Sola Sobowale, for over three decades and they have portrayed the roles of
married couples, he is yet to kiss the actress.
The actor noted that it surprises
him that despite all these years, they have never locked lips in front of a
camera.
RMD, as he is fondly called, made
this statement while he and Sobowale asked each other questions to promote the
recently released series, The Return of the King.
A snippet of the interview was
shared by Sobowale on her verified Instagram page.
Detailing the first time they met
in 1984, RMD told Sobowale, “We met about 37 years ago, in 1984, Surulere, at
Tade Ogidan’s place. We have played husband and wife several times and it hit
me the other day that I have never kissed you in a movie.
Hopefully, we will get to kiss as
Reverend Ifeanyi and the king; I want to be able to kiss the king.”
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Taking a trip down memory lane,
as he replied to Sobowale who asked him why he decided to become a thespian,
RMD noted that it had always been his childhood dream to become an actor.
He said, “I think for me, it has
been something I have always done from when I was a child. I played a lot when
I was a child. In Warri, we called it ‘playing mama and papa’, which, in English,
we call playing ‘house’.
“I went on to act a lot in my
primary school. In secondary school, I was in the debate team and dramatic
society. In my HSC, I was the president of the dramatic society. So, two things
had happened to me all through my secondary school days — I was very athletic
and I was a dramatic person. That is it.
“When it was time to fill my JAMB
form, the theatre was the most natural thing for me to do. What I find amazing
in the life of an actor is the fact that once you catch the bug, you do not
want to go out of it.”
Still holding on to the dream of
kissing his colleague, RMD stated that in the next 10 years, he hopes to still
be relevant in the movie industry and, by that time, he ought to have kissed
Sobowale on a movie set.
Richard Mofe Damijo graduated from the Faculty of Arts with a Bachelors in Theatre Arts from the University of Benin. He has since gone on to become one of the most recognisable faces in the Nigerian movie industry.
He has been featured in new Netflix series 'The return of the King', a sequel to 2019 Box Office record breaking movie King of Boys.
The veteran actor and Sola Sobowale have featured in some of the most memorable productions ever made released from Nollywood.
The Return of the King is currently leading the Nollywood charts on Netflix.
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