Charles Inojie, one of Nigeria’s actors and movie director, has lamented the loss of his colleague, Mr Ibu, describing it as an “irreplaceable loss” to the Nigerian film industry.
He emphasized that simply casting the late comic actor was adequate to transform a film into a hit, underscoring that he is irreplaceable in Nollywood.
Speaking in a recent interview with Channels TV, Inojie said,
“There’s sometimes you lose a person in an industry and you say, well, so or so the person would replace him. But Mr Ibu is irreplaceable. Mr Ibu spears with every part of his body.
He is probably one of the few people in Africa who would sit without saying anything would communicate a million messages with his facial expressions, body language and gestures without verbalising just one word of dramatic dialogue. That doesn’t come cheap. We are going to miss that.
“You have John [Okafor], you have a blockbuster”.
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