Actress Bimbo Thomas has explained why she stopped accepting acting roles, saying she wanted to avoid being stereotyped.
In an interview, Bimbo said she felt producers were trying to restrict her to a particular character.
“I felt they wanted to box me, they wanted to put me in a corner,” she said.
Bimbo added that she can easily switch between roles and should not be seen in just one light.
“One minute I’m speaking phonetically, the next I do ghetto and so on,” she said.
She also stressed that although she can perform in pidgin English roles, it is not her natural way of speaking.
“I wasn’t born in the barracks, so pidgin isn’t my thing,” she explained.
Bimbo Thomas is widely recognised for her performance in Omo Ghetto and its sequel Omo Ghetto: The Saga.
She has also appeared in several Yoruba and English movies.
The actress, who studied creative arts at the university of Lagos, has been active in the film industry for over a decade.
