Following her lead role in the monstrously popular movie, Jenifa, star actress, Funke Akindele’s life has got flipped on the head just as her celebrity status has skyrocketed. She admits she struggles to cope when she gets spotted by fans on the street and sometimes wishes she could live a normal life again.
Nevertheless, she is not denying the fact that her new status has changed everything for her looking at where she’s coming from.
When she was caught up recently, she claimed she never became an actress to be famous or rich but that it was only an attempt to fulfill her childhood fantasy. “I’m acting because I’ve always loved to act as a child,” she said.
Funke who got her first shot on TV on the set of American-born TV director, Lord Weaver’s I Need to Know,said: “For me, it was nice to be in a movie that dealt with the issue in a comical, classy way and that’s the way I believe we can drive the point home that HIV/AIDS is real in Jenifa.”
Since she graduated from that little Bisi in I Need to Know, it would have been predictable if she had veered into acting but her mind was in the classroom to study Law.
Her comedic appearance in Jenifa is a critical and commercial success. Interpreting her character as a provincial girl posing as a girl on campus is a comedic and dramatic balance.