Anita Joseph is a talented Nollywood
actress known mostly for her controversial
nature. The actress has over the years
grown a thick skin to criticisms and wants
people to know that she’s in the movie
industry to be an actress in the true sense of
the word.
She has the ability excel in any role she is
assigned and she has been a good source of
entertainment for many fans.
In this encounter with Showtime celebrity
Anita opens up on her music and movie
career viv-a-vis other issues:
What have you been up to?
Work work work… Movies and music but I’m
still recording
How many movies have you done so far?
The one that just came out is Akpabio, the
Calabar Boy. Then, there’s Hips Don’t
Lie, Festival of Village Girls, Wannabe Girls,
Who runs the Village, Twins Blood, and lots
of others. I can’t really count.
What is your style of music?
I do Hip-hop, I do slow songs, blues, I do
every kind of music
Which songs have you released this year?
I’ve done Long Time and Go Gaga
Have you featured any artiste in your songs?
In ‘Nyem Something’ I featured Flavour. The
video came out two years ago
You and Afrocandy were recently seen
together, are you guys doing a movie?
Yes, we are. We’ve not done the job yet. She
just did an audition and I was invited over
to help in the casting. We did an audition at
Excellence Hotel so I went there to help her
cast and I’m part of the movie too
Is it a porn movie?
God forbid. It’s an African movie. Afrocandy
does other movies too. The one she’s going
to do soon is an epic movie like a village
kind of movie. Then the other one is another
kind of movie, we call it Glamour.
Glamour is the one you have many rich
people but the epic is the village one. It’s
not a porn movie, don’t mind what people
are saying. I assure you it is not porn. Anita
cannot do porn. You know why I can’t do
porn? Because the money will finish but the
movie won’t go.
It’s not something I would like to do.
Everybody in life has what he or she wants
to do. I don’t care what anybody does.
Some people say you’re friends with
Afrocandy and all that, So What?
Do you believe Nigerians are hypocritical
about sex?
Oh yes they are, some of them do worse
things behind closed doors. So don’t judge
me. I do what I want to do but I can’t do
porn. Anita is crazy, Anita is this, Anita is
that, but I can’t do porn. There are some
kinds of things I can’t do. If I’m doing
business with Afrocandy, it’s movie business
not porn and it’s my business. Nobody has
the right to tell me I shouldn’t do it because
she’s this, she’s that. That’s their
business.
Can you do sex in a movie?
No, I can’t
Not even kissing?
That’s a normal thing. There’s a way we do
kissing in the movie industry, we don’t really
do the real kissing but there’s a way we do
it. It’s acting.
There was a movie I saw you,where Nkem
Owoh was touching your boobs, what movie
was that?
That movie was The Gamblers. In the script,
they said he was supposed to touch my
breasts; we have to make it real so I gave
him my breast to touch and that thing blew
people’s minds. That was the whole idea, he
touched it for real.
Have you done any other stuff like that?
I do lots of stuffs like that. It doesn’t matter;
it’s the kind of job I do, so it depends. It
depends on what the script says, sometimes
you just have to pretend to be there. Its
pretense, Acting is all about pretense.
Which actor do you have chemistry working
with?
I have chemistry working with everybody but
there are some people you work better with,
lots of them. If I start mentioning the
names, you won’t leave here
What do you consider the sexiest part of
your body?
Everywhere is sexy because everybody has
what trips him or her. Some like the boobs,
some like the back, some like my legs, I’ve
seen somebody that loves my palm. My
fingers are very sexy
You say you love tattoos, how many tattoos
do you have?
I used to love tattoos. But I don’t do tattoos
anymore and I’m trying to remove them. I’m
not a tattoo freak anymore; I’ve grown out
of that. In fact the tattoos on my body are
mistakes. I advise people not to do tattoos.
Tattoos are addictive. If you do one you
want to do another, at the end of the day
you’ll start regretting them. I don’t love my
tattoos anymore. I wish I can clean them
out.
Where is the most hidden place you’ve done
a tattoo?
No hidden place, the most hidden one is the
one on my waist and on my boobs
What do you find attractive in a man?
I love men that are simple. I don’t like men
that are too loud, I love it simple
When did you get into music?
I started music professionally four years
back but I’ve not released an album yet.
I’ve not really been serious with my music
because the movies took over but I’ve
released two videos, Time No Dey and Nyem
something
Are you currently in a relationship?
I’m single and not searching
Have you ever done a movie outside Nigeria?
Yes, I have, in South Africa. I did the movie
last year but it’s not out yet
How do you handle your male admirers?
They’re not easy to handle but I handle
them well enough. In this kind of job, you
have to be strong and bold because if you’re
not, they’ll just mess you up. So, I handle
them perfectly. I try not to be insulting in as
much as some of them are very unbearable.
Those that are unbearable, you just try and
be subtle and manage them with a good
smile.
What of your critics?
I love my critics because if they don’t
criticise me, I won’t get better
Do you take to their advice?
I do listen but some of them don’t make
sense. Some of them are beef, maybe it’s
somebody that doesn’t like you, you didn’t
do anything to the person but the person
doesn’t just like you. They did it to Jesus
Christ.
He didn’t do anything to them but some
people hated him, so it happens.
Sometimes when you read some things you
know that it’s just beef. You might not know
the person but the person is beefing you. I
don’t care about what they say. What I
care about is I take from the ones that are
good, I try to amend what is not right but
the ones that I know that I’m doing right, I
don’t bother
What is the craziest thing a fan has ever
done when he saw you?
Hitting my bum. Someone has seen me in
Shoprite before, hit my bum and ran away.
There was nothing I could do. There was a
movie I did Open and Close. I was a
nymphomaniac in that movie, I had sex with
everybody around me because it was the
story. The guy said that thing you did in
Open and Close, can you just do it to me?
He started whining in Shoprite, mimicking
everything I did in the movie, the way I was
doing. I just turned to leave and the next
thing he did was to tap my ass. I wanted to
pursue him but I wore heels so I couldn’t
pursue him.
If it were before, I would have chased him all
the way. Another day someone called me
and started moaning ‘Anita you’re killing
me, Anita whine for me’, I said hello, he said
‘Oh please, it’s me please you don’t
understand’. It was one of my pictures he
saw. He uses my pictures to work on himself
and he told me. Mostly he uses private
numbers to call me so I wouldn’t be able to
call back. That ‘s why I sometimes don’t
pick private numbers.
What is the craziest thing you have done to
a fan ?
There was this crazy guy that got my
number from somewhere. This guy sends me
message everyday of my life, everyday.
Telling me how he loves me and how he
wants to marry me, till date. At a point I
had to call him and invited him over. I mean
this guy has been sending me messages for
more than two years straight, everyday.
My sisters, everybody in my house knows
about it. One day I decided to invite him
over but when I came out to receive him, he
was nowhere to be found. He later called
that he could not face me.
What is the worst scandal of your life?
There was a time I was in South Africa, they
wrote something about me that an Alhaji
and I were getting married in America. It
wasn’t true, I was in South Africa and they
said I was in America. Then I was working in
South Africa. They said that I went to his
office and his wife saw me in the office and
embarrassed me. They said me and the wife
got into a fight, that people had to come to
separate us. I had a relationship and I was
very heartbroken. I’ve had lots of them like
that. Some people actually believed that
story but there was a mix up. That story
shattered me at the time.
Why did you refuse a marriage proposal from
your boyfriend
A man cannot just come out and tell me to
stop what I’m doing because he wants to
marry me. I’m not desperate for marriage.
Marriage will come when it will come. My
man will come when it’s the right time for
him to appear. When my husband comes, he
won’t tell me to stop what I’m doing. My
husband would be my fan and love what I’m
doing, my husband would encourage me.
Your boyfriend was telling you to leave
acting for him?
Yes, and become a complete housewife. I’m
an Anambra girl, we don’t do like that.
We’re hardworking women. That’s the kind
of blood I’m born with; I can’t just leave
what I’m doing. Marriage is not a do or die
affair
What about dating Senators, Governors and
Politicians, is it true or false?
I have friends all over. It doesn’t necessarily
mean you’re dating the person but you know
how the world is, if they see you with
someone or you’re friends with someone,
they conclude you’re dating the person.
What more should people expect from you?
Lots of new things, it would be a surprise
package.
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