Nollywood producer cum actress, Biodun Stephen has reacted to those condemning movie producers for kissing scenes in Nollywood and attributing it to the crash of marriages among film makers.
Biodun, who spoke in an Instagram video, said actors and their spouses know the demands of the profession and should take responsibility in handling their relationships.
It’s not a producer’s job to save any actor’s marriage, the filmmaker said. It’s not the directors’ fault if there are problems in actors’ marriages after the scenes.
Biodun Stephen said, “Some actors don’t want to do kissing scenes because of personal belief and directors find a way around it while some have no problem with it.
A producer’s job is to protect actors on set and present them respectfully on screen, not to save their marriages, she added.
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“There’s this lady that always has a mouth for Nollywood,” she said. She said something about kissing, Nollywood and the producers. And she said something about the producers taking it easy on the actors kissing because we’re ruining their marriages maybe.
Kissing is not really part of my craft because I want you people to watch my movies with your children but that does not mean that when an opportunity comes for it, I will not embrace it. I’ll embrace it as long as the story demands it.
“Believability is some of what we’re selling actors on the screen. “You’re selling an emotion, you’re selling a chemistry, you want people to believe in this love, so that they can root for it.
“Yeah it can be done without intense kissing but when you are now bringing things like the marriage don’t work.
“I think that the responsibility lies with the actor who has chosen the profession and also with the spouse of that actor who has accepted that my spouse is an actor and therefore things like kissing and rubbing may occur.
“And they must have resigned themselves to it. This is not my responsibility.
“There are actors that will tell you I’m sorry I can’t kiss for religious reasons and there are actors that say I don’t mind kissing.
“As a producer or director, my job is to protect you as actors. my job is to introduce you well to the audience not mailing your person but my job is not to break your home that’s not on me “I didn’t hold a gun to your head to make you work for me.