By Blessed Jatt
Renowned Nollywood actress and evangelist, Eucharia Anunobi says her new life in Christ does not stop her from acting.
Renowned Nollywood actress and evangelist, Eucharia Anunobi says her new life in Christ does not stop her from acting.
The movie icon, who said she
repented 19 years ago, told the Sun she will accept any movie roles given to
her anytime, including the role of a prostitute.
The Imo state-born said, “While you
are seeing me as a movie legend, all the years you have been seeing ‘act all
the actable’. I am still acting because I have not left my talent. This is my
own definition of being born again. Born again means you have realised and
discovered that you were living a life of sin, but now, you want to live a life
that would please God.
“As an evangelist, I will still
accept scripts like Ashawo (Prostitute). If they give me the one of Ashawo, I
will do. But then, I’m not going to smoke, because I don’t smoke in real life,
and I’m not going to drink. I can simulate, for instance, like in drinking, but
then, I might not wear clothes that will reveal parts of my body.
“I can still act the role of an
armed robber,” Eucharia, currently serving as an evangelist at a church in
Egbeda, Lagos state said, recalling a movie she played with Patience Ozorkwo
(aka Mama G), where they robbed a bank and fully armed with AK-47.
Continuing, the ‘Abuja Connection’
act talked about how her colleagues relate with her after she became born
again.
She said, “I remember years ago when
I gave my life to God, my colleagues were laughing at me. ‘Your mates are busy
doing aristo, your mates are busy seeing governors, your mates are busy going
to the clubs in Victoria Island, Ikeja, and everywhere, you sey na church you
wan go’.
“They used to say that ‘something is
wrong with Eucharia’. ‘Can you imagine with all her degrees, and doctorate in
waiting, na to go church?’ But today, by the grace of God, where I sit they
can’t sit; where I go they can’t go. I sit with governors and presidents not
for aristo, and not for someone to take me to a corner of a room to sleep with
me.
“I am not among the superstars they
would say, ‘that one get good shape, go corner her for hotel for me’ and they
come and meet you only in the night. They don’t need to take me to any corner
of the room through Personal Assistant.
“They call me to the lobby of the
governor or president’s chapel to pray and declare the word of God Almighty.
And when I am done, they shake my hands and say, ‘lay hands on me,” the
51-year-old movie star added.
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