{"id":274131,"date":"2011-01-15T02:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=47741"},"modified":"2011-01-15T02:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T02:01:52","slug":"sola-fosudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/15\/sola-fosudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sola Fosudo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sola Fosudo<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nConsummate actor and dramatist, Sola Anthony Fosudo is many things to \tdifferent people. He is also a theatre director, scholar and critic. \tCurrently, he is the Head of Department of Theatre Arts, Lagos State \tUniversity, Ojo. As a versatile artiste, Fosudo has registered his mark \tcreditably on stage and screen.
\nAs a dramatist and theatre practitioner, Fosudo floated Centrestage \t Productions essentially to discover and nurture budding talents. While his \texploits on stage speak loud, the prolific actor has equally made his mark \tin Nollywood having featured in chartbusters like True Confession, Glamour \tGirls I, Rituals, Strange Ordeal, Iyawo Alhaji, to mention but a few.
\nAt various times, Fosudo was trained at the Obafemi Awolowo University, \tIle-Ife and the University of Ibadan where he encountered great scholars who \tprepared him for his pioneering role as a theatre scholar and for \tintroducing Theatre Arts as a course of study at LASU.
\nInterpreting roles<\/strong>
\nWell, the process is not like 1+1=2. To be able to internalise a role and \tplay it convincingly and believably, it is highly essential that you have to \tfirst acquire the acting skill. Then, you must be able to concentrate and be \tin a relaxed mood. When you are relaxed, your composure in front of the \tcamera would be different from that of someone who is not relaxed. An actor \tmust have what we call stage presence.
\nOne of the greatest skills I acquired under Chuck Mike is that of \t spontaneity which is connected with the skill of flexibility. An actor must \tbe very flexible physically and mentally. He or she must be able to swing \tfrom one mood to another. All these are possible through the ability to \texternalise already acquired internalised skills. Essentially, acting is \tsecond nature, hence it must be natural.
\nCoping with young actors on set<\/strong>
\nIt could be very disturbing to find yourself on set with a green horn in \tacting because it takes such new comers a long time for them to deliver \ttheir roles to the satisfaction of the director. While they struggle to \trealise their roles, the experienced actors have to remain on set until \tshooting is completed. If the shooting is supposed to take about thirty \tminutes, you must be ready to spare about two hours of patience. I cope well \twith such situations because I was in that sort of position when I was at \tthe Cultural Centre in Unilag. I had to learn too. I was also in Adio Family \twith Jab Adu with little or no experience. I believe the young shall grow.
\nRelationship with Nollywood stars
\nI don\u2019t have any problem with anybody, I am free with all the actors they are all my friends. We are friends from a distance because nothing really brings us together. We don\u2019t fraternize on family levels but they are all my friends. But I must confess that I am very close to a few of them like Liz Benson. She has visited my family before and I returned the visit but that was a long time ago. Another person that I fraternize with at the family level is Jide Kosoko. Once in a while, he comes to my place and I also pay him visits
\nThe future
\nAll the activities taking place now are only preparing the ground for a great future for the industry. A lot of people are investing money but it will not get to the promised land if all the things that are supposed to be put in place are not put in place. We will continue this unending trial and error approach that we currently practice.
\nFor the industry to grow, we must provide training facilities for training and retraining of old and new talents.We should boast of investors that are ready to invest in the Cinema theatre because that is the only thing that can give us a movie industry. If you take your films to the cinemas you are bound to make more money before you put them in CDs and videos. Finally, we need government support in the same manner OBJ is talking about farming and setting up commissions on AIDS. If the president truly wants to turn around the movie industry, he should begin to make political statements about the industry. Let him call for foreign investors and stop talking about a film village. Rather, he could build one or two structures on a wide expanse of land and hand it over to movie practitioners stakeholders to do the remaining.
\nFilmography: Oh Woman, Political Control, Side Attraction, My Blood Enemy, Grace To Grass, My Faithful Friend, Playing Games, Sympathy, Wasted Years and etc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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