{"id":131865,"date":"2023-12-16T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/16\/funke-akindele-is-a-mad-woman-at-film-making-my-respect-for-her-has-doubled-yvonne-jegede\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:30:53","slug":"funke-akindele-is-a-mad-woman-at-film-making-my-respect-for-her-has-doubled-yvonne-jegede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/16\/funke-akindele-is-a-mad-woman-at-film-making-my-respect-for-her-has-doubled-yvonne-jegede\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Funke Akindele Is A \u2018Mad\u2019 Woman At Film Making&#8221;, My Respect For Her Has Doubled \u2013 Yvonne Jegede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Popular Nollywood actress, Yvonne Jegede, has narrated her experience of working with her colleague, Funke Akindele, on the recently released movie, \u2018A Tribe Called Judah\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne led this out during an interview on Friday, added that working with Funke on the new movie, took her to a new level of understanding about film making.<\/p>\n<p>She also described Funke as an \u2018insane\u2019 filmmaker who perfectly holds every part of the production while on a movie set.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne noted that she has no plan to emulate Funke Akindele\u2019s feats in the cinemas because it is too capital-intensive, and she doesn\u2019t have that type of money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0Why I Left Twitter After Losing Election \u2013 Funke Akindele<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt was a great and awesome experience working on this project. It was something different from what I had been doing, and I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see her on TV, you would think, oh, she loves to have fun, play around, dance and be goofy. Haaaa! that\u2019s a lie o she\u2019s a mad woman (screamed).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a very serious person when she\u2019s onset. And I think that made my respect for her go really high. Now, I can\u2019t even call her Funke to her face I have to call her big sis because my respect for her has doubled. She\u2019s an insane filmmaker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\">\n<div class=\"c-ad \">\n<p>\u201cEvery department she holds down is done to perfection. And I think this is because she over-prepares before she comes on set, so she knows every single thing, every department is inside her brain. 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