How Nollywood ‘Bad Boy’ Stereotype Affected Me – Segun Arinze

Hamilton Nwosa
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Seasoned actor Segun Arinze has explained reason why he took a break from acting. In an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, Arinze spoke about how being stereotyped as a ‘bad boy’ made him bow out of acting.

Arinze discussed his success in the Nollywood film, “Silent Night’ (1996), which helped him become well-known for his depiction of Black Arrow.

But he also talked about how portraying him as a bad guy in movies broke his mental health and made him give up acting.

“There was a time I took a hiatus from acting when people were casting in that mold of bad boy, bad boy and it began to affect my psyche and all that,” Arinze said.

He also spoke to Chude for the first about his divorce from the popular actress, Anne Njemanze. “I stayed out of marriage after the first one collapsed. I stayed out for like 12 years before I remarried,” he said.

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