Moving To Nigeria Is The Craziest Thing I Have Done - Yewande Osamein

[Music] you are right now the one that is um very very interesting right now on the screen um now we we everyone would have thought you are probably the um guest of the week because you are also on tinel we just saying right but it's not you no yes I know it's not you it's not me you're not that important right now H artist today is an actor television presenter voiceover artist or what they call voice actors you one day is here with us thank you for thank you for having me look at that smile I'm hearing some voices I I'm hearing some voice I'm sure that that voice is going to come how have you been he was with love very well considering the situation what what situation what situation what situation oh everything cost now everything cost in Niger it like there but yes yes very well very well you're also a skilled musician dancer and and how how is that going you want to give us a dance I'm just saying uh yes um um I'm trained for stage so um I'm I'm a creative artist I'm a Performing Artist and with that you have to be able to do everything well you it's there's an advantage when you can sing dance act so yes do you have that moment also where you just go crazy like what we saw from the rap about just did creatives are like that yes creatives can wake up and it could be something that comes to you whilst you're asleep creatives are like that you know we we we get giv all kinds of Inspirations at odd odd times what's the craziest that you have done the craziest thing I've done is moved to Nigeria after being born and bred in the UK my entire life and just moved to oh to school oh no it's um I I've been the only one so that tells me that it's a bit crazy but how have you found it though um there's something about um Lagos that will it's it's it equips you it shapes you um you you find yourself it's like you're you're thrown into a fire and you just have to kind of just just just firm you know and just find your way around things so I it's been yeah I've I've been shaped I can say I've been shaped sh sh still sh anding it yes yes yes I'm liking it that's why I'm still here well you you you you went out of your way to study creative arts so you're not one of those veterinary medicine graduates no I've always known that this was for me yes I've always known always as far back as when as far back as I would say I made the decision at age 14 but in Secondary School was the one thing I excelled at like I did extremely well in it was the only class that didn't bore me drama was the only CL well that and religious studies actually but um English too but drama it was always my primary school teacher actually called me drama queen and that was my name and everybody would call me a drama queen which which drama is this one uh that is the theory of breakfast uh we just wrapped up on African magic it's an African magic um original so theory of breakfast the theory of breakfast so breakfast I'm not sure if you've heard a Vera Boy song Don everybody good job bre so um we say breakfast as mean it means you've been you've been served when when your heart is broken yeah you've been served you've been served breakfast so in this show it was heartbreak yeah love triangles um just showing the different aspect um um not it's yes it's a drama yes yes it's a series it's a series but it's We've Ended it now so hopefully there'll be a season two not sure but yes it was just so many of us just chopping breakfast as they say so they gave me alakat yes that that was my wedding day W he didn't show up he oh um yeah we didn't even get as far as the altar we didn't get to the altar he served me hot breakfast yes me alakat so and um yes that's me and she played my on screen cousin Mo she's she's phenomenal she's really lovely so she also chopped her own breakfast in she yes AB bab yes and how how what's the what's the Lessing in in that particular one um this in theory of breakfast um it's relatable everybody can relate there's there's somebody everybody can relate to well actually has you and CH breakfast I'm not sure I'm not sure if I've really experienced what she experienced but we've all had um yeah we've all experienced love and all the things that come with love so it's very relatable yes and it'll teach you what to do when you when you to to know when somebody's about to serve you breakfast you yeah now you you you've always known you wanted to do this that you do going professional will be a different ball game right um in like asid education you mean from yes because um with education your um you you I think for creatives They Don't Really warn for students are how hard it is when um you know you're thrown into the deep end and to chase your dreams because it's just a very small percentage that actually do get to make it after school so um it is it is very very does it challenging determination and also I know that sounds so cliche but it really does take determination because wanting to be an actor means sometimes being out of work sometimes you you have nothing going on but you just have to be determined look for more work and you might be seeing people that you went to school with doing extremely well but you just have to just just just hold it down and just just wait for that one big opportunity so you've done stage yes now you're doing film you know filmis um what's the difference what's which one is which one do you feel more stage I I'd love to what's wrong with all these people Everyone of you guys prefers stage I'll be very honest um there's something about stage that you don't experience on film but there's something with film that you can experience on stage but with Stage it's stag is is life there's no stop even your mistake becomes a performance on St yes yes we've had times where somebody has missed their line or missed their Quee or their movement yes a movement and you it's collaborative it's a collaborative effort you have to step in and just not let the audience know so stages film you can easily cut and share EXP I was I was playing a role of the Holy Ghost in one movie in one stage performance oh wow and my colleague was playing the devil oh wow I missed my movement and the devil came to move the Holy Ghost not the other way around oh my god oh not the was in the so but then there's another interesting thing you you you you've we've seen you in an urban um series breakfast uh theory of breakfast but then you you've also been an epic yellow day what's the tell us the difference what what do the difference do to you coming from the UK from the UK um I've always been a lover of the eura culture so I won't say it was um strange to me I grew up watching a lot of um and I grew up in C so it's a eura church so I grew up in a eura church I um grew up watching yba movies and a lot of those epic EUR movies you know I'm assuming you watched I actually don't know that one oh gosh I'd have to look for it on YouTube going maybe I did I don't remember the name but um so I grew up watching European movies and then to be a part to actually be in front of the camera and work on an epic was an absolute dream come true with fuma Ransom cie so um it's it's not all in eura it's not all in eura speak English my mom says I speak like an evil person but I do with a man okay so so you speak it with an accent I speak with an evil accent to your mother according to my mother according to my mother but yes it was that's that's just the um the difference was I just couldn't believe I had finally gotten the moment to be part of an epic part of a eura story and um it was yeah just how did it feel thrilling thrilling thrilling inspiring um before I moved to Nigeria I was so sure I'd be doing so many charitable works and helping others and then you kind of get mixed you get into the mix the rat race and you're thinking of yourself and I forgot about all those aspirations I had to to help others so this movie was so important and um kind of like there was a I was re it was reignited all those you know I want to help others and advocate for other people so um that's what it did for me it did for me to not just think of myself to remember you know what's what my thoughts or what my plans were before very inspiring very very inspiring fil and and I dare say provocative as well because um even when we were speaking with B Le Austin Peters last week one of the things that we discovered is that we don't even know our stories we don't young people don't know the Nigerian stor we don't how does that how does how do you feel about how does that make you feel it's it's saddening and I was just telling someone that even as parents we don't do enough for our children to I'm not say parent but um parents um My Generation we don't do enough for our children to know our cuz sometimes we don't even know ourselves I I went to I I went to un like for a year and I remember remember the name form ROM Cy it was the name of a clothes in unilag and I didn't know I just said oh oh I said that must be Fella's Mom full St you know full stop and that was that and to know that she was this is you in the series right yes yes this is umti this is us oh no this is yeah this is yeah this on set yesel so yeah so not knowing that she's was way more than that she was an activist she was a teacher she was a woman and and a half and a half so if I don't know that and um I'm here in Nigeria imagine people outside of Nigeria so it's important this story travels across Nigeria and outside of Nigeria as well to know that we have historical figures like this you know we have historic figures we have people that we can look up to so it's so important that story to is crucial what role did you play in the series Mrs Koka Mrs Koka who is um she was part of the elite women from lari put together a group of women um the the Bela Women's Club before she changed it into a bataa women's Union where you know they were advocating for low-income women people who are not so educated so I was Mrs Koka yeah she she went to Cambridge darling yeah she was in brid she was Prim proper so she didn't believe in F subti idea of helping the masses so it be it was shocking to her how do you want us to mix with them so um she she did not yes yes she did not buy the idea she yeah she spoke up against at F what are you doing this is us that's them so that's a bit my character so she's not like me not like me so say the character was a challenge I'm not a snob yes so you you've been in the industry for like how long now oo should I say Prof I I I'll say professionally in Niger I'll say let me say for Nigeria 2017 okay 2017 um I moved to I moved back cuz you know I went to and I ran away it was hard it was very very hard so when I finished education we talk about that after yes so I moved back in 2017 there was um NYC and then I just was trying to juggle doing a 9 to5 in film as well as breaking into you know Nollywood so I would say 2017 I was able to do a few gigs here and there then after Co I just like let's let do it culture shock oh so many but I I would say I was prepared like cuz I had done school here so nothing really shocked me after it's it's different when you're doing it alone you know but um yeah there culture talk every day so you're done school here I mean what does that mean I I I un like yeah just the one year just the one year that was it was enough to kind of prepare me for what was to come so I did the year what are these culture shocks so that we can know what to show for others I think if I had to choose one one thing that I would say that it's um to be honest I'll would say it's just you have to learn to adapt and learn to blend you have to learn to blend wherever whatever situation you find yourself in or whatever group you find yourself in a you have to learn to blend have to learn to just a nice way of dodging my question so what next I don't want to put anybody in trouble so so what what what should we be expecting from you Anda um doing more for others doing more for others I'm a Storyteller and um I have been creating small content here and there so I want to create my own stories um so definitely doing more on on my part creating and um building others um I also have a storytelling platform um which encourages children to read and develop a culture for reading um African stories by African authors so I have that so I'm going definitely going to do more with that um and yes just telling more stories I think I've been I've been behind the camera I do want to continue doing more behind the camera writing okay now um there are many people who want to go into get into the industry and they have a hard time because they've heard all kinds of things you have to you know what's that produce talk to the producers oh in a particular way talk to the directors in a particular way what would you advise and how would you advise any young woman or young man out there to get into the industry to be bold to be bold and um know that you enough because I think of a lot of what I faced trying to get into Nollywood was doubts in your head not being sure not knowing how to navigate so if you're bold and you believe in what you have you'll be able to approach people you know with everything you have so be more be very bold be intentional and to collaborate you know they say if you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together so collaborate don't be afraid to collaborate don't be afraid to to um walk with people yes so I would I would advise it's it's faster that way do you do you get to prepare in any any specific way for your roles um training yeah there are a lot of um skills and things I have picked from my training okay um aside from college i i attended identity drama school so there are a lot of things that we did there that I still sometimes you know just exercises warmups all those things just to help you just Center yourself and yes yes there something you didn't tell us earlier what the how did Mommy and Daddy receive the fact that you that I was that I wanted to come here right that you wanted to do Dollywood oh always been supported they've never kicked against that luckily enough so it's when you wanted to come home when I want to come was a problem they over there it's when I wanted to leave the UK and school here that it was a problem school um because I've been given an opportunity to study abroad and um you know finish from University and then come home my mother kind of felt like I was going is backwards I was yeah so it wasn't it wasn't easy it wasn't easy at all I think my father was the understanding one actually then it wasn't easy found it wasn't too bad was it well I ran away after a year so we'll leave that discussion I'm back now a niece of mine who hadn't been for 5 six years came and was supposed to spend 10 days ended up spending 6 weeks she went back last week and she said to me I'm coming back in September oh yes we will you you be welome tell us to come for I really appreciate it is an actor television presenter skilled musician and Dancer you know don't worry then next time she's going to dance thank you so much for your ATT thank you thank you we're going to let you off this time and not make you sing yes and dance that's fine I owe your performance next time [Music]

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Length: 19min 27sec (1167 seconds)

Published: Sat May 18 2024