Nollywood’s pride, Genevieve Nnaji may have had the privilege of
working with a crop of Hollywood’s A-list actors on the set of
Chimamanda Adiche’s Half of A Yellow Sun yet-to-be-released film
directed by Niyi Bandele but not the pleasure of seeing her role when it
comes to cinemas. Genevieve’s scenes weren’t expressly important to the
story, a reliable source that has seen the movie told E24-7MAGAZINE. “I
figured that because of Ms Nnaji’s way of acting, her character dragged
the storyline, so it was cut out during editing. Obviously, if she was
good enough like Onyeka Onwenu, she would have been given a major role
in the film.
“Her minor role was compensation to Nollywood. So, the film producers
might be apologetic for cutting out her parts, as she should not try to
go to the cinemas to see the film with her family members, else she
will give herself heartache.”
It was a very intense exercise for the post-production team; in fact,
they ended up cutting out some characters from the book to beat time in
order to stay focus and professional. Test audiences, we gathered did
not like those scenes.
According to the source, the director realized some footage may not
be needed and unfortunately many of those scenes involved the Tango with
Me star actress, such that if she appears on screen at all, it will be
in a significantly reduced capacity from what her role was in the
script.
Yes, you may get to see her in a party scene. This development, no
doubt will be shocking to her fans and observers of the industry because
of her status and influence but it is a usual occurrence in other
climes to cut actors out of finished films.
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