Actor Kunle Remi has revealed how filming Kunle Afolayan’s Anikulapo threw him off his comfort zone.
The 33-year-old disclosed this in a recent interview with media personality Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on Channels Television.
Speaking about the challenges, Kunle who is well known for his English speaking roles said: “It threw me off my comfort zone you know, the standard. I have grown to understand the practice, it was completely different, it was a longer period to shoot. It was also a language film in Yoruba ijile. It wasn’t just the Lagos Yoruba.
“I had to learn that. Reading it was easier because you had to read it with your mind but saying it was a different ball game. The pronunciations and the mannerism. It’s not just words, it’s also with the body so it took a lot.
When asked how he got the role, Kunle said: “Working with the director Kunle Afolayan, I did a movie with him previously that was A Naija Christmas. So that was the first time working with him and I think then he was like ‘hmm this guy’. So after the film fast forward few months later, he calls me and said ‘can you speak Yoruba?’ and I said ‘yes I can’. I actually didn’t get it until few days later he just called me and said ‘I’m sending you a script read it let me know what you think and I read it and yea, I’ll do the work.”
Set in the 17th century Oyo kingdom and directed by Kunle Afolayan, Anikulapo is the story of Saro, a travelling cloth weaver, who was beaten to death for having an affair with the Alaafin’s youngest wife Queen Arolake played by Bimbo Ademoye.
The movie also stars others like Sola Sobowale, Dele Odule, Taiwo Hassan, Aisha Lawal, Ronke Oshodi-Oke, Faithia Williams, Yinka Quadri, Adebayo Salami, Sunday Omobolanle and Toyin Afolayan.
