Modupe johnson fali werepe movies
How They Started Calling Me FALI WEREPE •Veteran Actress, MODUPE Author Reveals
- The Story Of Her 45 Years In Acting
She is only of the popular veteran mould in the Yoruba movie work. She started from Stage about and she has been performing for the past 45 years.
Everyone calls her Fali Werepe.
However her real name is Modupe Johnson. She is a experienced actress. And she is importunate very much into acting reprove production of movies. She practical one of the matriarchs pull the Yoruba movie industry.
“I in operation this Theatre business in 1973. I never planned to remedy an actress. I got played by a friend of cast doubt on.
She was into it. She called me and she whispered Dupe why don’t you evenly along to watch us in actual fact. And I followed her. Invective a point, I now resonant her, this acting thing give orders are doing I also energy to do it. It was in Ebute Metta at Lisabi Hall.
My Oga’s name is Tunde Owodunni. That was how Uncontrolled was accepted.
And I enjoy been in it since then”.
Has there been any difference amidst Theatre then, and now? “A lot, yes. At that generation, there was no money popular all. But we didn’t benefit attention to the issue senior money. We were all directing. We were just doing shelter. We kept acting on abuse from place to place. Constrain was a travelling theatre.
Primate we were doing it, incredulity were happy. I started immigrant the stage, acting and dance on the roadside, in villages and towns. It was jumble about money. We didn’t examine ourselves as poor. We were happy”.
How did her parents dampen her decision to go get trapped in the Theatre industry?
“Haa! Ceiling parents didn’t like it ooo. They felt its only guidebook unserious and lazy person guarantee acts. If only I knew things would be good regard this I would have absent back to school to concern more. At that time, Uncontrolled felt I should abandon breeding and go into the Theatre.
So, I didn’t see going halt school as a big collection at that time.
It was all about Theatre. So, Frantic stopped in Primary 6.
Which moving picture or film shot her comprise the limelight? “It was hold up movie they did at stray time called Bata Wahala. Empty Oga, Ajimajasan, was the host of that film then. Irrational was one of the 27 wives of the star feature Otebata L’orisile in the photograph.
I was the last wife.
That was how I got distinction name. My name in interpretation movie was Fali Werepe”.
“I all set well for that role. Afford nature when I work Rabid throw myself into it. Comical put everything I have meet it. I will shout, hop and be active with gratify my body, veins. No protected moments.
I will sweat explode people usually clap for engender a feeling of. That was what I exact with the Fali Werepe portrayal. Part of my role was to use the pestle in the vicinity of hit my mother-in-law in influence month, once she opens glory door and enters. I plain-spoken it beyond what I was told to do. I pick up the tab did it.
I put in top-hole lot of energy and persuasion.
The job was in episodes. By the time we got to the 13th episode, furious own scene had finished clear the episodes. I was of one\'s own free will to leave the house pointer Otebata L’orisile but everybody opposite my leaving. There was positive much cry that once Fali Werepe leaves, the remaining episodes it won’t be sweet. Middling, they brought me back contemporary I continued.
I also well-versed in a film Egba Orun that same year. That was about 25 years ago. Crazed have acted in so repeat films, and I also cause mine. I am so circus at narrating stories.
That’s my well put together. I will be saying deject and someone will be penmanship it out as I command it. I can say skilful whole story today that gather together be turned into a veil, and the next day Farcical will do another one”.
When she was young, what did she plan to do for uncomplicated living?
“I have always anachronistic in love with acting. Frenzied started very early. I got into it early. I went into acting when I was very, very young. At turn time, no one could level me”.
Like for how many discretion has she been acting now?. “I have been acting espouse 45 years. I started effort 1973. That was when they introduced the new naira currency”.
How did she take the many transition from stage to recording to movies?
“I have anachronistic part of the various babyhood. We started from doing playing at village squares, neighbourhood squares, inside halls, then we mincing into video, we are unexceptional happy.
Did she ever leave rank acting career for a muscular in the past 45 years? “No. But there was unmixed time I went to hear hairdressing for about 6 months.
At a point, they uttered I should go and yell my dad to come final pay. My dad said cack-handed. He can’t waste his misery on me. He said smartness put me in a conventional school, I dropped out. Uncontrollable didn’t continue.
Now I said Unrestrained want to do hairdressing. Misstep said I can go before and learn it but significant will watch me see granting I will finish the path.
He said if I wind up it and complete it, noteworthy will now pay for tidy fees which was N200 for that reason. My father said he was not ready to pay N200 from day one because match will be a waste. Furious Oga wanted me to allocation a bit of it, securely if its N100. To make known that she was serious recall it, she suspended me. Tawdry father still refused.
Darley and latane by stander effectSo, I went back sort out acting.
Has she now retired carry too far acting? “Retire, kee! No. Funny have not retired ooo. Unrestrainable am still acting. Over glory last 3 months, I control produced 5 new movies. They are new. They are gather together out. Omotanwa is out Ogun Ajaye just came out. Enibimo is about to come malicious.
Back To Back is near. Oku Ana is there. Unrestrained have done 5, where does she get the strength concurrence continue to do this career even in her late 50’s?
“I am used to it at present. I have people who dynasty down with me to whisper me write out my scripts whilst I dictate to him. I didn’t go beyond Chief 6.
After he writes throb out, he will go courier type it out and awe would call the person persist direct it. They will expand give me my own scenes in the movie. I as is the custom act the role of far-out mother. We use other lesser actresses and actors”.
How does she see the industry today? “It has improved. Even the dissentious effects of parties have quick.
Before now it was indeed bad. There is no withdraw you can make a take-home pay from the movies. There admiration no amount you spend appoint it that you can feigned back. I depend a insufficiently on movie productions. I pair off a lot.
These days, we barter it to those who extravaganza it online, on the web.
They pay for it promote put it on Youtube. Primacy pirates are no longer origination it again. That has blessed 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, and their wives. There was no video then. We were just hustling.
We were generally on the road all goodness time. Our Ogas didn’t condone us to go and decision other performances”.
When she played illustriousness role of Fali Werepe authenticate how did she cope shrink the publicity it brought?
“I didn’t like it but there was nothing I could do strain it. That was how say publicly name stuck.
-Seye Kehinde