While speaking in an exclusive interview with Saturday Tribune, Nollywood actress, Patience Ozokwor, opened up on her widely known role as a wicked mother, wife and mother-in-law.
“If I am wicked, it is because you love it. I
always want to make you happy,” she said
as she talked about some of her movie roles.
Speaking further she said; “Sometimes, I cry
when I watch some of the characters I had
played in movies at home. I just thanked
God it wasn’t the real me that was involved,
but a character.
“Nearly all the movies where I played wicked
roles made me cry because I remember
what that character had done to somebody.
“I do these jobs to the best of ability
because I want to sit down at home, watch
and cry over what I’m doing to people.
“Two of the roles that caused me the most
tears were: one role where I seized the
feeding bottle of a month-old-baby and
threw it away.
“I wept profusely after that scene that the
director had to stop shooting until I was
able to control myself. If someone had done
it in real life, I would have exposed the
fellow to the world to see.
“There was another one where I went to
take my sister’s daughter from the village,
what I did to the girl, if any human being
can do it to a fellow human being, I don’t
know what God would do to that person in
turn. I met her in the kitchen, beat her so
much that she fell down the stairs, rolled
down and died from broken head and pains
all over.
“I’d been playing wicked roles but those
two movies are exceptionally horrible. I
doubt that any human being would do that
to anyone.”
On the morality of her roles, she said;
“When I play the role of a bad woman, I see
myself at that instance as a mirror through
which I want society to see and appreciate
the fact that it is not good to be bad.
“This is the reason I do it with so much
passion that it becomes almost believable. I
also see such roles as an opportunity to
minister to lost and wicked souls that
jealousy, hatred, envy and all the likes can
only bring one to ruins.”
