Super
actress, Genevieve Nnaji who has done hundreds of movies said
Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the biggest movies she has done. In
an interactive session with journalists she said;
“Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the biggest films I have done so far, but definitely not the most challenging role I have played in movies. I have done a lot more challenging roles in Nollywood”
Genevieve
Nnaji played the role of Miss. Adebayo in the movie. She said it was
safer for her because she didn’t have to experience the horrors of the
war but hopes that in future if a different story is told about the
civil war she will love play to the role of an Igbo woman where she
would express what it meant to be an Igbo woman at that era. Continue...
Half
of a Yellow Sun is an adaptation of Chimamanda Adiche’s bestselling and
award-winning novel with the same title. The movie was produced with
over 10 million Dollars (1.7 Billion Naira) and has a superb cast of
stars, starring OSCAR nominee and BAFTA award winner, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Genevieve Nnaji, veteran singer Onyeka Onwenu, Thandie Newton, Anika
Rose Noni, OC Ukeje, Zack Orji, Wale Ojo, Gloria Young, Tina Mba, , Joseph Mawle, John Boyega amongst others.
According to a press release signed by Bigsam media, the movie has been released in the UK and would be released in Nigeria this Friday on the 25th
of April. And for the first time an African movie would be released in
the mainstream US Cinema, Middle East, New Zealand, Australia and
Portugal. It is also the first movie to show at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
The
movie was directed by UK-based Nigerian playwright, Biyi Bandele and
produced by winner of three BAFTAs and an OSCAR, Andrea Calderwood and
Yewande Sadiku, an investment banker.
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