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Veteran actress,
Joke Silva has attributed youthful appearance to her continuous zeal to work.
Often described as
agelessly beautiful, Joke Silva, revealed the secret to her youthful looks
at age 55.
The veteran Nollywood actress attributed her youthful beauty
to the fact that she keeps working.
The multiple award - winning filmmaker who has been busy
with the production of a stage play, ‘Heartbeat the musical,’ made the
disclosure during a chat with a
national newspaper.
She said: “I look this young because I keep
working. There are still some things I want to do that have not been achieved.
For instance, I have not seen a play run in Nigeria for a year not to talk of
20 years. That has to happen. It is part of my unfulfilled desires or
unfinished business in the industry. Also, I hope we can get a proper and
standard school for the performing arts and film running. Yes, we are doing it
but not at the scale I would want it to be”.
Adding to the fact that there are some unfulfilled desires
she harbours, Silva also revealed that she is yet to give up on stageplays in
Nigeria as she believes they are still very viable in the country.
She said: “Stage
plays cannot be pirated and there are lots of talented people who love the
stage. They express themselves beautifully well at the theatre either in front
of the stage or behind the scenes as they make theatre happen. For me, if it is
possible to create work for them, why not?
"Like every other
Nigerian groaning under the pain caused by the economic recession, even the
A-list actress is not left out. She confessed that she is feeling the brunt of
recession and she gave instances.
“The recession has
also affected me because if not for recession, I probably would have got the
kind of funding I need for this play. Most of the money for this play has come
from our pocket. This is my work, play for me means work”.
Joke who is happily married to veteran act, Olu Jacobs, has successfully produced
22 stage plays although she disclosed that things were not always rosy.
She disclosed that no one turned up for the first stage play
produced by herself and Jacobs but things are very different now.
The filmmaker is popular for her screen and stage works like
"Violated," "Hear Word," "Widows Cot,"
"Letters to a Stranger" among others.
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