{"id":273218,"date":"2011-01-08T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45683"},"modified":"2011-01-08T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:03:29","slug":"men-cant-kill-my-dream-uche-mac-auley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/men-cant-kill-my-dream-uche-mac-auley\/","title":{"rendered":"Men can’t kill my dream \u2013 Uche Mac-auley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uche Mac-auley<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nUche Mac-Auley is a top Nollywood actress. She is a graduate of English from Delta State University. This indigene of Delta State, who divorced her first husband \u2013 Osotule,in this interview with ODUNAYO OREYENI, talks about her second shot at matrimony, her new movie titled: \u2018In a Lifetime\u2019, her plans for the industry and the heavy price she is paying for fame.
\nWhere did you grow up?
\nMy name is Uche Mac-Auley. I was born in Delta State. I went to school in Delta State I only came to Lagos for my Youth service.
\nI went to Delta State University and I read English Language. I went to different primary schools, because my parents were teachers. They were being posted from one place to the other, so I attended like four different primary schools, but I finished at Osoro Primary School. I did my secondary school at Anglican Girls Grammar School, Osoro, and Idia College before I later went to Delta State University. I\u2019m the first of five children, two boys, three girls. My mum is late, my dad is still alive and he\u2019s retired from teaching, and he\u2019s back to the village. My father was a principal; he\u2019s Mr. Gabriel Mobuogwu, and my mum, Mrs. Clementina Modupe Mobuogwu, was a vice-principal before she died.
\nSo your mum is a Yoruba?
\nShe\u2019s not Yoruba, my mum was born here in Lagos and a lot of her siblings. Most of them have Yoruba names, but we are not affiliated to Yorubas at all.
\nWhere did Osotule come from?
\nOsotule was my marital name. I know it\u2019s not a secret that I was divorced; I broke up with the other one and I\u2019m re-married.
\nHow is life as an actress?
\nIt\u2019s fun; it\u2019s a lot of work and what a lot of people think out there that being an actress, you only need to have a pretty face and an empty brain to be an actress, but it\u2019s a lot more than that. Life as an actress can also be a bit tasking because I\u2019m a very private person, but because the career I chose comes with a lot of exposure, a lot of publicity, your life is no longer the same; you belong to the public. Sometimes it gets a bit overpowering, sometimes I just want to be left alone, sometimes I don\u2019t want to be seen, I just want to walk into a room and nobody notices that I\u2019m there. I want to wear anything I want to wear. Sometimes I feel if I could really walk on the street and eat and nobody will notice that it\u2019s me (if I would hardly do that), it will be fun. So my privacy is totally murdered, but it also has its really good side because people will know you, it opens doors. Where ordinarily you may not be able to walk into, but because somebody recognizes you, people are willing to help, it\u2019s a major plus to it, the disadvantage is very minor.
\nHow have you been able to cope with fame?
\nI\u2019m beginning to live with it, because I\u2019ve finally come to realise that I really don\u2019t have a choice on this matter. When I chose to become an actress, I didn\u2019t see the fame that will come with it. I love to act, I\u2019ve acted all my life. So it was something I naturally will do. I just don\u2019t think it will come with that kind of fame, but like somebody rightly said, I think that was when it dawned on me. The person said, \u201cIf you are somebody and you make a success of anything, you\u2019ve become famous, your name will be known, you will probably even be asked to speak. And according to the person that we are public speakers, unless you do not excel in what you do because when you do it, your name will be known.\u201d Definitely I don\u2019t want to be a nobody, I guess it\u2019s okay and I really should be grateful to God for fame that has come with it.
\nHow did you begin in the acting industry?
\nProfessionally, I started from my youth service, I served here in Lagos, after working my redeployment back to Lagos because I hated where I was posted to before. And then I joined the Drama group of the NYSC and things started coming in. NTA had something to do and wanted us to do some soaps, which is the \u2018Destiny\u2019. It was as if they heard about me, they heard that I was redeployed from where I worked my way back to Lagos. It was a story of a youth corps member, who hated where she was posted to and wanted to be posted to the city. It was titled \u2018Selfless Service\u2019. That was the very first one and after that I did \u2018Checkmate\u2019. One of the people who was with us then introduced me to it when they had a casting for \u2018Checkmate\u2019. I played a role of Nkemji. So, basically it started from \u2018Checkmate\u2019 and other production. Here we are today.
\nIn \u2018Checkmate\u2019 you acted Nkemji, and that brought you to the limelight, what was your experience like?
\nThat was the role which brought me to the notice of the public. I still considered my role \u2018Nkemji\u2019 in Amaka Igwe\u2019s \u2018Checkmate\u2019 as one of the best experiences I have had in the industry so far, because it was a role telling away from me. The character I actually auditioned for was supposed to be a university girl, but when the casting came up and I was given the role of a village girl, I was a bit disappointed, I was very upset. And I thought to myself, do I look anywhere close to a village girl, why would she be giving me a role like that. But I thought about it, when the first script came out, I read it and it became very interesting, and for the first few minutes I opened my mouth to say the first line, it was an experience that I\u2019ve never had before because everybody there, the director, the producer, the camera people backstage, I made them laugh, and it continued like that. And what interests me most then is that I cannot walk into an estate without the whole estate turning upside down, the whole estate will just be screaming like \u201cNkemji, I really wan go village\u201d. It was an experience and till date people still call me Nkemji. I looked back and I thought that I was able to play a role like that, it was fun and I really wish I can play something like that again.
\nWhat motivated you in playing your role as an actress?
\nI just try as much as possible to live in the character I\u2019m supposed to be portraying, and I try as much as possible to allow the character progress. I try to forget me.
\nSome actors, especially the upcoming ones believe you cannot become a star without having a godfather. Who is your godfather?
\nI really don\u2019t know where they are getting that information from, because like I said before, a lot of people believe that being an actress is just to have a pretty face and then you jump in front of the camera, but how far can your pretty face take you? If you are talented, you don\u2019t need a godfather. Yes you may need one or two persons to introduce you, but you don\u2019t even need that for crying out loud! If you know and believe in yourself that you have the talent to act, look around, there are auditions everywhere, go for an audition. If you really have it in you, a serious minded producer and a casting director will notice you. So you don\u2019t need to have a godfather, you don\u2019t need to take off your cloth, you don\u2019t have to spread your legs, you don\u2019t even have to go begging anybody for a role.
\nWhat is your assessment of Nollywood?
\nI will not say I have the solution or I\u2019m the messiah of Nollywood, or there is something special that I want to do that will transform the industry. But what I will like to say is that, the reason we are where we are today is because majority of us are not even ready to unite. Yes we are talented, but we are not thinking of the future, they are always interested in today, what can I get as at now. I hardly watch home videos, but majority of the ones that I\u2019ve seen, you will see that everybody is involved, we haven\u2019t done our home work well. We really just want to get the money, get the idea today and get it spread, go to location the next day, two to three days time you are done with shooting and in a week the poster is out and then you are selling. A product like that cannot go very far. An American actor once said that Nigeria does not have movie industry. I was at a forum in South Africa and somebody there also said that South Africans hardly watch Nigerian movies, that they are not interested in them. That they look very much like what they have in their television stations, and they have a lot of television series. We are still crawling and we really have to go back to our drawing board; let us learn the craft because there is craft to every process of film making and we don\u2019t even have to start to create a brand new process to it. The white have done it for us, we can learn from them. It\u2019s just to take the blueprint of what they\u2019ve already created and build on it. Let it still be a Nollywood production. Majority of us even though you give us a hundred million dollars, we will still not do anything.
\nYou are from Delta, and sometimes you feature in Yoruba movie, why is that?
\nI don\u2019t even speak a word of Yoruba. People think because I took part in Tunde Kelani\u2019s film, \u2018Thunder Bolt\u2019, that I do speak, but no I don\u2019t. And the word of Yoruba that I spoke, they said it to me and I rehearsed it over and over again before I was able to speak it. And then, regarding me not being a part of most of home videos and all that. Yes I\u2019ve come to love the film because it comes in very handy and I excel at what I do. But I don\u2019t think I want my face everywhere. I don\u2019t think I want to be called in the sense that I don\u2019t want to be in every stable movie that is done.
\nWhy?
\nBecause I want to excel in what will assist me, in what people will see and say \u2018Well Done Uche\u2019, in what the people will watch and want to learn my craft of acting. I don\u2019t want to be in every single movie. When they call me, I tell them no! I don\u2019t want to be a part of it. Apart from your script being good, your director also has to be good. In the world nowadays, the director has to be it, the producer has to know what he\u2019s doing, and the editor who is going to work on it at the end of the day has to be sure of what he\u2019s doing. If you are working with a great director and a brilliant producer, you will know that what they will come out with at the end of the day, they will do justice to whatever they are to do.
\nWhy don\u2019t we get to see you on screen this days?
\nThe reason for that is I\u2019m actually back and I got tired of everything. The roles that I was getting, there was nothing exciting about them, nothing challenging, the scripts were not exciting, because by the time you read the title of the script, you\u2019ve already known the entire story; you\u2019ll know the conclusion, so I lost interest and then words started spreading and I needed a break from Nollywood that \u2018okay Uche has stopped acting, her husband has stopped her from acting.
\nDid your husband actually stop you from acting?
\nHow can he stop me from acting. How can I marry a man who would be a stumbling block to my dream, it\u2019s not possible; it\u2019s unthinkable.
\nIf he did not stop you from acting, what then went wrong with your first marriage?
\nAlright you are fishing for a story that I actually don\u2019t want to get into at all, and that\u2019s happened so many years ago, even before the press got to know that I was no longer there, it was over a year. So I don\u2019t really want to go into such details at all, because he\u2019s actually happily married as well, and I\u2019m also happily married.
\nWhat about your new hubby?
\nHis name is Solomon Mac-Auley, an actor, director. He\u2019s my husband and business partner.
\nWhich film are you working on presently?
\nIt\u2019s called \u2018In a Lifetime\u2019. I wrote it recently and Solomon is directing it, that\u2019s my husband. We are shooting some in Lagos. The story is something close to my heart, and I can\u2019t really wait for it to get out there. I wanted to do something that people could pick something out from. I don\u2019t want what people will just watch and after they got up they will forget it. I want a good production that will touch life, something that will transform lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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