Actor Kalu Ikeagwu has recalled how a kissing scene with actress Ini Edo left him sweating nervously while watching the movie with his mother.
The 53-year-old shared the experience in an interview with The Nation, saying the scene caught him off guard when his mother asked to see one of his films.
“Before anything else, I read the script. From what I learned in school, whatever movie you do is supposed to inform, educate, and entertain at the same time,” he said.
“I didn’t really take it that seriously until one day, I think, when my mom came to visit me. When I was seeing her off at the airport, she saw some people who were like: ‘Ah, can I take a picture? Can I sign an autograph?’
“I never really told them what I was doing. So she was like: ‘Ah, this acting you went to do, it’s as if something is coming out of it. When next you’re coming to visit, bring one of your movies so we can watch.’”
According to him, the moment turned awkward when the kissing scene appeared.
“When I went to visit next, my brothers were there and everything. During the movie, it got to a point where I had a scene with Ini Edo, and we had to kiss. I completely forgot that scene was there because I had looked for the safest movie I could find.
“As the scene was about to start, I was like: ‘Oh, this scene is coming!’ Sweat was running down from my armpits, and I just started retreating,” he said.
Kalu added that the experience taught him to only feature in films his mother could watch.
Kalu and Ini Edo both appeared in the 2006 romantic drama Games Men Play.
