Genevieve Nnaji Cannot Soar Beyond Her Present Height – Charles Novia

Charles Novia Blatantly Compares Omotola
And Genevieve's Acting Skills

Popular Nollywood critic, Charles Novia is here
again.
Charles Novia
The Nollywood actor and director, who is known for
airing his blunt stance on issues among celebrities,
politicians and issues in Nigeria has taken to His
Facebook page to congratulate Omotola for her
National Award honour which she received yesterday.

While doing so, the movie producer and opinionated
writer Charles Novia compared Omotola and
Genevieve’s acting skills, saying Omotola has more
depth in acting than Genevieve.
Read below and see if you agree with him.
Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is known to many. Her
acting prowess is arguably in a class by itself and
her being nominated as one of the world’s 100 most
influential persons by TIME magazine a couple of
years back must have paved the way for her present
national recognition by the Federal Government.
Frankly speaking, I personally think she has more
depth in acting than her ‘rival’ Genevieve Nnaji. I
have worked with both of them in the past and also
studied their acting styles. Omotola has the gift of
role immersion.
She gives everything into her characters. There is an
organic style of interpretation she is gifted with. Very
few actors have that. She Is not a Method Actor,
mind you but she has delivered roles which many
method actors would give her a standing ovation for.
Genevieve Nnaji, on the other hand, is a fantastic
actress and a trend – setting one too who was first
honoured by Mr President a couple of years ago. But
she lacks the intrinsic ability to evolve artistically
beyond her present heights in her career. That is my
opinion.

There is an underlying stereotype in her interpretation
of her roles in many of her movies; a linear aloofness
and veiled disdain at the thought of being pushed
further down the exploratory lane. Of course she has
an uncanny screen presence which generally veils her
artistic shortcomings when it comes to acting and
between her and her rivals, she comes tops on the
fan base list.
However, with an attitude which seems to say she
has nothing more to prove, even the fans would
become restless if new artistic exploits are not
offered from her to which they can beat their chests.
And for fans of both actresses, this is a professional
review of their acting abilities and not an attempt to
rekindle old rivalries. Somehow, this post on the
National Honours dove tailed into their artistry. All
well and good.
It would be recalled that just recently, the
controversial Nollywood movie producer, who is
known for being very outspoken and always sharing
his opinion about almost every trending issue,
reacted to the mavins ‘Dorobucci’ video, listing 10
things wrong with the video.

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