{"id":12437,"date":"2023-02-01T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/01\/funke-akindele-recounts-how-saddest-day-of-her-life-almost-ruined-battle-on-bukka-street\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:13:14","slug":"funke-akindele-recounts-how-saddest-day-of-her-life-almost-ruined-battle-on-bukka-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/01\/funke-akindele-recounts-how-saddest-day-of-her-life-almost-ruined-battle-on-bukka-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Funke Akindele Recounts How Saddest Day Of Her Life Almost Ruined &#8216;Battle On Bukka Street&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Popular Nollywood actress and director, Funke Akindele has revealed how a personal difficulty almost interfered with filming \u2018Battle on Buka Street.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The politician stated that the day was the last day on the film set, and it was supposed to be the happiest day of her career, but it ended up being the saddest day of her life.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, a personal matter made her cry, which almost made her stop the shooting before she summoned the guts to carry it out.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cThe major challenge while shooting Battle on Buka street was the famous market scene, a scene I filmed when I was very sad. It was one of my saddest days on earth, something very personal happened, I broke down heavily and I couldn\u2019t film and I told myself, Funke, challenges will come\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: <\/strong>Funke Akindele\u2019s Ex-Husband, JJC Skillz Returns To Islam<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I braced up, summoned up courage and filmed the scene, I went and fought Mercy, I came back and I was panting, I was tired because I had cried before but we had to just keep shooting and I had started well and needed to end it well too and it was the last day on set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater we still ran, we still had to shout and I still went ahead to pray with the crew and destroy Bukka Street. So, whatever you do, challenges will come, always pray for strength to keep it on cos it won\u2019t always be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Captioning the video with motivating words she said, \u201cNo matter how much one gets beaten down in life, one must always stay strong because like the quote above says, we become the most vulnerable when we cower in fear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we give in to our sadness, it means we have allowed our weakness to overtake us and nothing can be achieved in life with this type of attitude.<\/p>\n<p>-Never be afraid to make mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>-Never stay down when you fall; make sure you rise and keep moving.<\/p>\n<p>-Never be intimidated!<\/p>\n<p>-Always believe in yourself and give no room for doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akindele\u2019s \u2018Battle on Bukka Street\u2019 has gone ahead to break a number of records as it makes its way to being one of the highest-grossing Nigerian films of all time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>));\/**\/<\/script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nollywood actress and director, Funke Akindele has revealed how a personal difficulty almost interfered with filming \u2018Battle on Buka Street.\u2019 The politician stated that the day was the last day on the film set, and it was supposed to be the happiest day of her career, but it ended up being the saddest day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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