{"id":274158,"date":"2011-01-15T03:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=47801"},"modified":"2011-01-15T03:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T03:15:30","slug":"victor-osuagwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/15\/victor-osuagwu\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Osuagwu"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Victor Osuagwu<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThere is never a dull moment \twith comedian and actor, Victor Osuagwu. With him, one has to hold one\u2019s \tribs tightly, or they would fall off! Osuagwu\u2019s every word\u00a0 and actions are \ttailor made to make people laugh.<\/strong>
\nI came to the film industry in 1997, The first film I featured was Evil \tPassion 2. I produced it in 1994 while I was in school when the UNIBEN \tstrike kept everyone at home. We call it PP (private practice) finding a way \tto get (extra) money. In that 1994, the strike kept everyone in Lagos so we \thad to look for a way to survive and we have to meet one of our old school \tmates Sydney Idiala who was the one in charge of that particular production. \tHe was producing and coordinating the production for KBN production. We were \tdoing the auditioning for the Evil Passion 2, I think that was the first job \tI did.
\nDo you have any formal training in the arts?<\/strong>
\nI studied Theater Arts in the University of Port-Harcourt. I have always \tknown that I have the talent because it is a bubble. It bubbles inside me it \tis just for me to let it manifest. I started in the church from my \tchildhood. I attend Anglican church so there is usually this anniversary \tthat comes every year and there are usually competition on drama, dance and \tsome other things to make the day. I am always involve in this but my church \tcomes first. I continued in it till my University level. Also, all that I \twas taught in the University was in line with what I am doing.
\nNow that actors and actresses are launching musical careers, do you have \tplans in that dierction too?<\/strong>
\nWhen I come out with my own kind of songs it is going to be bombastic, like \tmy friend Nkem Owoh. This was why I told you that entertainment is too wide. \tWhen you are not doing other things, you can be doing other things also. \tInfact, I have almost ninety something tracks, if\u00a0 you want me to sing one \tfor you, I will.\u00a0 It could be funny, out of place but then it is part of \tentertainment. I might not be doing it to make money, but I want people to \tenjoy the other part of the (entertainment) world.
\nDo you also produce?<\/strong>
\nYes,the movie Love in High Place, I am the producer of that film.
\nHow long have you been married?<\/strong>
\nIt has been a long time. I don\u2019t even know exactly the time because my \tpresent wife now, we courted for a very long time. We started our friendship \tright from 1990, we were seeing ourselves as husband and wife not even \tboyfriend and girlfriend. I met her while I was still in the University and \tshe was in SS1. I have been watching her since she was a little girl. I saw \tthe homeliness in her and I told her that I am not going to go out with her \tbut that I want her to be my wife. But then, she was still playing the \tgirls\u2019 stuff and I was still playing my normal school thing. I left her to \tgrow because I know what I wanted.
\nWhat prompted you into opening a restaurant?<\/strong>
\nI like food and believe that a lot of people outside there people are \t hungry. They need a place to eat. You see, one of my slogan is the \u2018native \tpot\u2019. To be candid with you, it has always been a part of me. I wanted to \thave a business, a restaurant,\u00a0 a saloon or two other things that have to do \twith hospitality business. As I was working, money was coming in; I was at \tthe same time looking for a good location for it. As event unfolded, I saw \tthis place and I rented it for the restaurant.
\nHow has the Restaurant business and why the name Angels Kitchen?<\/strong>
\nIt is lucrative because when there is fuel strike people must eat, even when \tthere is an impeachment, people must chop. To tell you the truth, I came \tinto this business because of the love I have for it. It is from my\u00a0 \tdaughter\u2019s name Angel. I just love that name, I gave her Angel. It just \tflows when you call that name Angel\u2019s Kitchen.
\nBack to the industry, why don\u2019t we have Nigerian films winning awards \tinternationally?<\/strong>
\nWe are still living in ignorance, because only a few people know what is \thappening outside here.\u00a0 A lot of us have gone to film festivals. I do not \tknow the result but I know that each time a Nigerian film appears in any \tcompetition, there is always a controversy. The controversy have been, how \tdid this people make their films because a Nigerian will stand up and tell \tthem that this particular job was done in seven days with only one camera. \tOyibo man wey dey there go think say we are mad. A film takes the white man \talmost a year to do and we do our own only in five to seven days with only \tone camera. It is amazing. I have a lot of confidence in this industry but \twe only have to take it easy.
\nAre you saying artistes are not doing enough?<\/strong>
\nI love Nigerian artistes. I am not particular about anyone. Do you know why \tI love Nigerian artistes, they are talented. The problem with them is that \twe are still doing buying and selling. By the time we break in the home \tvideo as a business, you will know where we are going. We have talented \tpeople, is it in music? Eighty -five percent of music played on radio are \tNigerian music even on televisions. We are celebrated outside the shores of \tthis country in Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana and Europe, we are celebrated. \tPeople appreciate our work.
\nAre new talents being given enough space to express themselves?<\/strong>
\nThe system in Nigeria has been using old ones instead of the upcoming ones. \tIn government today, they keep going back to the old stuff. They believe \tthat the young ones cannot make it because even if you give to the young \tones, they will just chop money. The old ones dey chop but they know how to \thide am. All this old ones they use, there is nothing again in their head, I \tam just telling you the truth. The brain has gone weak. There should be \ttraining the new comers. It is also very wrong when they say that they are \tstill using the old ones because they are using new people and new faces \tcome up everyday. Story sells a work but you can also watch a work because \tthe character you love is involved in it. The marketers know the strategy \tthey use in getting their money back. They cannot spend 5million without \t getting it back, so they know the market strategies to get their money. As \tan actor, you are contracted to act a particular role and what happens to \tthe market is their business. The truth is that, we keep preaching that the \tnew one should come.
\nThe way forward for the industry?<\/strong>
\nOne of the greatest problem is the sponsorship of the home video. For\u00a0 years \twe have nobody expect the marketers who have been putting their money into \tsponsorship. By the time government brings in their money, there will be \tmuch progress. We thank God that this industry have put food on so many \tpeople\u2019s table today. Some of us are millionaires today. There is a \tbreakthrough. It is a very big opportunity for employment. If government \tinvests in the industry, there will be much money to employ more people \tinside the industry. So we are asking government and corporate bodies to \tcome in. It should not be only for the marketers only because they have been \ttrying and you can\u2019t forget them in the development of the film industry.
\nIf you are not an actor what would you have been?<\/strong>
\nI could have become an architect. It was my first love when I was in \t secondary school because I passed through technical school, that was my \tfirst dream. My friends looked at me and said Victor, any thing you just do, \tpeople will laugh. What do you do? You have to channel yourself to that \tthing and each time you want to do otherwise, you find out that something is \tpushing you to that thing you are meant to be.
\nWhat is your philosophy of life?<\/strong>
\nMan na mumu. Do not ask me why because I cannot tell you. To be candid with \tyou, Man na proper mumu.
\nFilmography: Adam Goes To School, Agaba, Awilo Sharp Sharp, Church Committee, Fools, Fork Up, He Goat, Headmaster, Ijeuwa The Boxer, Lion Finger, Love In High Places, Million-Million, No Shaking, Oke Belgium, One Dollar, Our Daily Bread, Safe Journey, Shakara, Slow Poison, The Man, Thrift Collector, Touch And Follow, Trouble Maker, Uncle Wayward, Vineyard, Men On The Run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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