In an interview with Fashion 360, Bimbo Akintola talks about her character as Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the length she went to give a true representation of the doctor and how it has positively impacted her.
Read excerpts from her interview below;
Everybody is asking that same question and I understand it because even I asked myself that question when I got the script. This is a real life person, this is someone who lived, who had a life. She has a son and is still there, Bankole. She was married, she worked with people, she knew people. She had a family, she had a mom and her mom is still here. And I thought to myself, how do you play this person?
So the first thing I did was to ask the director, can I see videos of her. The reply was hmmm (shaking her head) meaning no. Then I started to panic because you want to give a representation that is true to the person especially with what is done because she is someone that we must honour.
No videos, so the next thing was talk to people. And that’s what happened. I talk to a lot of people, I spoke with her son, I spoke with her friends, I spoke with families and they all (you know Nigeria; we never speak badly of the dead. Everybody that died was a good person but usually if the person wasn’t a saint, she doesn’t have stories to back it up). Everybody had something they had to share with me. Something that she had done that they just thought it was important for me to know.
Someone told me she always had keys in her lab coat, and that she has a smile any point in time. Everyone told me how she was a mom to everyone. She was highly principled and those where the things I played. I didn’t have her mannerisms because I couldn’t tell because I didn’t see. I just played it out. I played her character. Everything I heard about her was what I played.
There was a warmth. Everyone that talked about her talked with so much warmth and I said ok, this is the warmth that is inside and that’s what I did.
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