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Popular actress, Jaiye Kuti, has been applauded for her interpretation of roles on the silver screen. Mostly appearing in Yoruba movies, Kuti usually acts the part of a tough woman. However, as daring as she may appear on camera, the actress says there is a limit to what she can do because of her marital status.
In a chat with Sunday Scoop, she stated that though she was ready to give her all to her craft, there were some lines she could not cross. She said, “For now, there is nothing I cannot do (in movies) but the limit is if I have to act some serious romantic movies where I have to exchange wet kisses and I would have to pull off my clothes for a man to sleep on me, I cannot go to that extent. There is a limit to how much we have to kiss or touch one another because the reality is I am somebody’s wife and the co-actor is probably somebody’s husband.”
The no-nonsense actress also chided actresses that often took their fights to social media. She stated, “I think it is immature for some of them. There have been times that we called some of these people together and talked to them. We have also raised the issue at our (industry) meetings and we told everyone (present) that anytime anyone has issues against their colleague, the best place to deal with it is not on social media. Putting such issues on the Internet can be very ridiculous and it is telling badly on all celebrities. It is not just the people involved that would bear the brunt; it is also affecting some of us that know nothing about those issues. It is not that people don’t insult or fight me too but I have just decided to keep calm. I guess many of them cannot stand someone abusing them, so they decide to talk back. But that is not the best way to express oneself.”
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Shedding light on her current projects, Kuti said, “I am currently working on five (productions) and by next year, I would release them one after the other. Some of the people I worked with on those projects are Odunlade Adekola, Faithia Balogun, Seun Akindele, Antar Laniyan and Olu Ogunmola.”
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