LOCAL STARS FEATURE IN NIGERIAN FILM
Amanda Du Pont to feature in Nigerian flick. PICTURES:BellaNaija |
LOCAL actors and comedians are lending the craft to the Nollywood in new flick 10 Days in
Skeem Saam star Amanda Du Pont and comediennes Thenjiwe Moseley and Celeste
Ntuli (who also acts in leading soapie Isibaya) have lent their acting stripes to
Nigerian/South African comedy drama film production shot in Sun City,
Johannesburg and Lagos.
Celeste Ntuli and Thenjiwe Moseley. |
Directed by award-winning South Africa-based Nigerian Director Adze Ugah and written by award-winning writer-director Kehinde Ogunlola, the film which is produced by Ayo Makun, Darlington Abuda and Kirsty Galliard is set to hit cinemas in both countries from June 23 this year.
The main cast features of A-list movie
cast from Nigeria such as Richard Mofe-Damijo, Adesua
Etomi, Mercy Johnson, Falz The Bahd Guy, 2Baba Idibia, Gbenro Ajibade, Fathia
Balogun, Uti Nwachukwu, Yvonne Jegede and Alexx Ekubo.
According
to reports by Bella Naija, the movie
is comedy-drama that sees Akpos on another ‘adventure’, this time, to South
Africa, with his girlfriend Bianca, a beauty queen Akpos sacrificed his
livelihood to make successful. After successfully winning a national beauty
pageant, Bianca, ever loyal to Akpos, is now an international celebrity rolling
with society’s ‘high and mighty’. She is, amongst several mouth-watering
corporate endorsements, global ambassador to, and the face of multi-national
cosmetics conglomerate ‘OTAWI’ which is owned by Nigeria’s richest man, Otunba
Ayoola Williams, aka ‘The Old Fox’. This lands Akpos in a predicament as he
tries to figure out if he should give up his love to wealth. - additional reporting by BellaNaija
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