“I Have Been Acting Before Nollywood Was Formed” — Actor Pete Edochie

Veteran actor Pete Edochie says that he started performing before the Nigerian film industry, known as Nollywood.

The renowned actor said that he made his film debut in 1985 during a recent interview with Afia TV.

Pete Edochie talked about his first movie role, which he played in the Things Fall Apart adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s book.

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“The idea of Nollywood as we know it today did not exist at the time” he continued.

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“I’m senior in the movie industry. I mean, when I did ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1985, there was nothing like Nollywood. By then, Nollywood was slumbering sonorously in the womb of time.”

“It was seven years after that Nollywood came on board with ‘Living In Bondage.’ I went round the world before Nollywood came. By the special grace of God, after I did ‘Things Fall Apart,’ I was celebrated internationally.

“The BCC flew in here [Nigeria] to interview me and tell flew into America to interview Chinua Achebe. And Achebe said, ‘Pete Edochie gave that role an interpretation after my heart.’ Before he died, he was calling me Okonkwo.

“Seven years after Nollywood came and when I retired from broadcasting, I joined Nollywood.”