Hollywood actor,
Hakeem Kae Kazim, has revealed that he turned down several Nollywood
scripts as such scripts did not match his standard. In an interview
with HipHopWorld, the British-Nigerian, who played George Rutaganda in
the Academy Award-nominated movie, Hotel Rwanda, also disclosed how
director, Obi Emelonye, wooed him over to Nollywood with the script of
Last Flight To Abuja.
“I did the TV series called 24, up in Los
Angeles, United States, then one Nigerian director I had met at some
film festivals said to me, ‘Nobody knows you are Nigerian in Nigeria’.
“I
was shocked and he said, ‘You have to come home and do something’. Then
a year and a half later, he presented a script, Inale. It was my first
experience coming back into Nigeria and working in Nollywood. And then
he said will I come and do his movie; it was Last Flight To Abuja.
Again, the reason why I did it was because he was the director and one
that is trying to move the Nollywood film experience to a higher level
so I wanted to help him do that and so I came back and did Last Flight
To Abuja, which was an interesting filming experience,” Mr. Kae-Kazim
said.
He also noted the discrimination of black actors in Hollywood.
“Yes,
there is discrimination in one sort of sense but the major fact is that
in Hollywood, whites are the majority there. They are doing their own
work and are just telling their own stories from their perspective and
most times they just have a person of colour they want to put in as they
deem fit. And I think it’s up to us to be able to tell our own stories.
The most important thing is for the African race both in Hollywood and
Nollywood to put together their resources to provide infrastructure and
to start a process of telling their own stories so that the stories come
from them and by them,” he said.
Mr. Kae-Kazim described his
experience with Nollywood superstars, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and
Genevieve Nnaji, as good. He talked about how great it was for him to
have come and experienced some of Nigerian talents and hopefully
influence the talent and help raise everybody’s game.
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