For award winning actor, Tope Tedela, working on the set of soon-to-be realeased flick, Surulere (Patience Pays), remains one of the most exciting and memorable experiences of his career so far.
Tedela, who bagged the Best Actor award at the Best of Nollywood Awards as well as the Most Promising Actor award at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2004, said that everything including the story, stellar cast, directing and the role he played in the movie all came together to him as awesome.
“I played the role of Kyle-Stevens Adedoyin who is also a metrosexual that makes life a bit difficult for Arinze, the protagonist and his boss brilliantly portrayed by Seun Ajayi and Gregory Ojefua respectively. I based the character partly on someone I know, created a history/biography for this character that helped me understand the person. I spent some time working on the physicality of the character. I made some character choices that were discussed with the director and bam! Kyle was born,” he explains.
The University of Lagos Mass Communications graduate said that he learned a lot from being part of the movie. “One thing that still rings in my head is: you never know what experiences a person has been through and if you discover some things about a person it will change the myopic lens through which you might have previously viewed them,” he said, adding, “viewers would love the movie because it does a fine job of combining high entertainment value and leaving audiences with a lot to think about”
Surulere (Patience Pays) is a romantic comedy about a frustrated young man whose chance meeting with beautiful Omosigho causes him to explore a fraudulent, get rich quick way out of his financial troubles.
Set in Lagos and directed by Mildred Okwo for The Audrey Silva Company, the movie stars Seun Ajayi, Beverly Naya, Enyinna Nwigwe, Kemi “Lala” Akindoju, and Gregory Ojefua among other talented actors. Jointly produced by Rita Dominic and Mildred Okwo, the movie will hit the cinemas in the middle of February.