Popular Nollywood actress, Joke Silva, has revealed what filmmakers in Nigeria can learn from famous American actor and moviemaker, Tyler Perry.
While sharing her thoughts on the growth of Nollywood during a recent youth development forum tagged, ‘The Roundtable Lekki’, the thespian said Nigerian filmmakers should learn from Tyler Perry by investing in studios.
She noted that for Nollywood to create standard movies, there was a need to establish more studios and sound stages.
She said: “We need to build our studios and sound stages, just like American filmmaker, Tyler Perry, has done. He built one of the biggest sound stages in the world. The thing with sound stages is that there are usually facades. I once shot a movie in France, but all the interior shots were taken in London, United Kingdom. All we did in France were the exterior shots to give the ambience of that country. Sound stages give one control. It allows one to make movies at one’s desired pace.
“We shoot in apartments these days. But I won’t allow movies to be shot in my home; it won’t happen. I know the number of people that are brought into a shoot. There may be two people in a scene, but to shoot it, there will probably be about 20 people there. That means 20 people will put their hands on my wall, block the loo, and do other things.”
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