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\nThere is one thing that is incontrovertibly splendid about Sola Sobowale, and that is the fact that she knows her act. On the set of Wale Adenuga Productions\u2019 Superstory\u2019s Oh Father, Oh Daughter, many of her fans loved her while others held her in awe for her wiles and fret.
\nShe is Toyin Tomato, the lustful, reckless seductress who scares pants off men and makes their knees weak with her beauty. She adequately portrays the woman mothers-in law pray their sons never encounter.
\nBut she became an instant success and the toast of many married women who practically dragged their husbands to the television sets to learn the lessons of life according to Toyin Tomato. Her role was not only a study in life it was` well interpreted.
\nSince that singular role, Sola has become a hot property in the movie industry. She\u2019s best qualified as a crossover actress as producers in the Yoruba and English movies equally engage her. When she is not demonstrating her feline agility, she is a mass of contradictions- red in tooth and claw. Her exterior is graceful and placid but inside fire rages. Take her signature role in Tade Ogidan\u2019s Madam Dearest, in which she\u2019s a big sister to Ope Ayeola. She beautifully plays out a supporting role that could not be easily ignored. Ditto Tade\u2019s Dangerous Twins.
\nEven critics and cynics agreed unpredictability makes Sola exciting to watch and gives meeting her with a certain frisson. You really don\u2019t know what she\u2019s going to say, and believe me, with a Nollywood star, that\u2019s not just refreshing, it\u2019s all too rare.
\n\u201cSo, what do you want to know about me again, Biodun, she\u2019d asked when I called her on phone last Monday. Your new work, I said in response to her. \u201cOh, I\u2019m hitting the location next month. It is a story that will blow your mind she\u2019d boasted. \u201cBut right now, I\u2019m busy on location in Ogijo, after Ikorodu on location\u201d
\nBusy as a bee. Even when the movie season breaks, taking a break seems a luxury for Sola who after her teenage twin daughters have returned to school, still get herself busy with Mide, her last born who snuggles up to her. Her aged parents, Pa Joseph Ewatoyi Olagookun, and her mother, Esther, before she passed on, were regular callers at her home.
\nHer challenge in life she\u2019d said in an interview was to ensure they had the best of everything before they pass on. However, the sudden exit of her mother, a retired teacher last year, left a big vacuum in her life and her father\u2019s, a retired principal. \u201cBut life goes on,\u201d she said.
\nNo, doubt a split- image of her father. If Sola had hearkened to the voice of her father, Pa Olagookun, 77, who hails from Ifon, Ondo State, she would have been in the classroom as a tutor. Though her foray into acting has fetched her fame and money, Pa Olagookun had said in an interview with this writer that it was never his career choice for his daughter. \u201cI didn\u2019t like her going into acting much. I wanted her to be an academician. She was a very brilliant child. She was very robust, active and intelligent. One of the attributes she had was sticking to whatever she wanted to do. She was very pertinacious.\u201d
\nThough he would have stuck to bringing his dream to reality for his beautiful daughter, the influence of his brother-in-law changed his position. There were some overriding influences. \u201cTunji Oyelana, my son-in-law and then a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, was a great influence. I think she was really influenced by him and I think she had encouragement from him and with that I couldn\u2019t object.\u201d
\nWith over two decades in the thespian art, Pa Olagookun assessed her daughter. \u201cI\u2019m very happy to see where acting has taken her and I thank God for the progress she\u2019s making.\u201d
\nWith credits in several movies including not less than half a unit that she has produced- Jokotade, Ipinnu, Ewa Abuku and Eyi Gaa her last movie on the shelf was Ayo Mi Da directed by Tade Ogidan two years ago. In Ayo Mi Da\u2019s casting, she did the unusual by not playing the lead role in her movie. She opted for Foluke Daramola.
\nHer choice of Foluke, she said was not fortuitous. \u201cShe deserved it in all practical sense of it. She worked hard at it. Tade really drilled her for the role and I gave kudos to her.\u201d Ayo Mi Da also scored another first with heartthrob actor, Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD) playing a role in a Yoruba movie. Several years ago both of them had acted together in Jagua Nana\u2019s Daughter, a stage production.
\nFor Sola, the journey to showbiz started when she opted out of College of Education to follow her dream by going to Ibadan then the hub of entertainment in Nigeria. Initially enrolled as a Secretary in training at Sight & Sound, Ibadan, Tunji Oyelana, (Sura Di Tailor) who married her elder sister, Kikelomo got her enrolled in the University of Ibadan\u2019s Department of Music.
\nWhen she didn\u2019t get her fulfilment rocking the microphone, she eventually opted for the thespian art. From rested Village Headmaster, to Lola Fani Kayode\u2019s Mirror In The Sun and a couple of stage productions including Femi Osofisan\u2019s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, it was a steady rise for her. She also scored more credits in a long list of Yoruba movies- Asewo To Re Mecca and Eri Okan.
\nBut like she admitted, never has her acting career enjoyed rave reviews, acclaim and boost, as it has received in Super story\u2019s Oh Father, Oh Daughter. It meant different thing to different people. \u201cThere are instances women have walked up to me and told me that my role in Super story has helped them to restore their marriages, especially relationships that have been disturbed or threatened by the second woman. I am happy the role has touched lives and changed many homes for better.\u201d
\nMarried to former corporate executive director of EKO Hospital, Dotun Sobowale, who has since relocated abroad. Sadly, reports in the media suggest Sola is not having the best of the world in her matrimonial home. She has been hounded severally by the media and linked romantically with one or two people, especially veteran actor, Adebayo Salami (Oga Bello).
\nHer response to the media would have been a calculated mum but \u201cI\u2019d rather say that nobody can destroy what God has built. It is stupid for anybody to think I\u2019m dating Oga Bello. It\u2019s hard for anybody to see really who I am all the time and I\u2019m comfortable with all sides of myself.\u201d
\nHer relationship with Oga Bello, she said was mutual and professional and dated back to the production of the film, Eri Okan by Awada KerI keri Group, which he was a leading member.
\nIn spite of the negative press acting has brought to her life, Sola said the profession remains her first choice. \u201c Even if I reincarnate I will love to return as an actress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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