Anita Joseph is a talented Nollywood actress known
mostly for her controversial nature. The actress has
over the years grown a thick skin to criticisms and
wants people to know that she’s in the movie industry
to be an actress in the true sense of the word.
She has the ability excel in any role she is assigned
and she has been a good source of entertainment for
many fans.
In this encounter with Showtime celebrity Anita opens
up on her music and movie career viv-a-vis other
issues:
What have you
been up to?
Work work work…
Movies and music
but I’m still
recording
How many movies
have you done so
far?
The one that just
came out is
Akpabio, the
Calabar Boy.
Then, there’s Hips
Don’t Lie, Festival
of Village Girls,
Wannabe Girls,
Who runs the Village, Twins Blood, and lots of others. I
can’t really count.
What is your style of music?
I do Hip-hop, I do slow songs, blues, I do every kind of
music
Which songs have you released this year?
I’ve done Long Time and Go Gaga
Have you featured any artiste in your songs?
In ‘Nyem Something’ I featured Flavour. The video
came out two years ago
You and Afrocandy were recently seen together, are you
guys doing a movie?
Yes, we are. We’ve not done the job yet. She just did
an audition and I was invited over to help in the
casting. We did an audition at Excellence Hotel so I
went there to help her cast and I’m part of the movie
too
Is it a porn movie?
God forbid. It’s an African movie. Afrocandy does other
movies too. The one she’s going to do soon is an epic
movie like a village kind of movie. Then the other one
is another kind of movie, we call it Glamour.
Glamour is the one you have many rich people but the
epic is the village one. It’s not a porn movie, don’t
mind what people are saying. I assure you it is not
porn. Anita cannot do porn. You know why I can’t do
porn? Because the money will finish but the movie
won’t go.
It’s not something I would like to do. Everybody in life
has what he or she wants to do. I don’t care what
anybody does. Some people say you’re friends with
Afrocandy and all that, So What?
Do you believe Nigerians are hypocritical about sex?
Oh yes they are, some of them do worse things behind
closed doors. So don’t judge me. I do what I want to
do but I can’t do porn. Anita is crazy, Anita is this,
Anita is that, but I can’t do porn. There are some kinds
of things I can’t do. If I’m doing business with
Afrocandy, it’s movie business not porn and it’s my
business. Nobody has the right to tell me I shouldn’t
do it because she’s this, she’s that. That’s their
business.
Can you do sex in a movie?
No, I can’t
Not even kissing?
That’s a normal thing. There’s a way we do kissing in
the movie industry, we don’t really do the real kissing
but there’s a way we do it. It’s acting.
There was a movie I saw you,where Nkem Owoh was
touching your boobs, what movie was that?
That movie was The Gamblers. In the script, they said
he was supposed to touch my breasts; we have to
make it real so I gave him my breast to touch and that
thing blew people’s minds. That was the whole idea, he
touched it for real.
Have you done any other stuff like that?
I do lots of stuffs like that. It doesn’t matter; it’s the
kind of job I do, so it depends. It depends on what the
script says, sometimes you just have to pretend to be
there. Its pretense, Acting is all about pretense.
Which actor do you have chemistry working with?
I have chemistry working with everybody but there are
some people you work better with, lots of them. If I
start mentioning the names, you won’t leave here
What do you consider the sexiest part of your body?
Everywhere is sexy because everybody has what trips
him or her. Some like the boobs, some like the back,
some like my legs, I’ve seen somebody that loves my
palm. My fingers are very sexy
You say you love tattoos, how many tattoos do you
have?
I used to love tattoos. But I don’t do tattoos anymore
and I’m trying to remove them. I’m not a tattoo freak
anymore; I’ve grown out of that. In fact the tattoos on
my body are mistakes. I advise people not to do
tattoos. Tattoos are addictive. If you do one you want
to do another, at the end of the day you’ll start
regretting them. I don’t love my tattoos anymore. I
wish I can clean them out.
Where is the most hidden place you’ve done a tattoo?
No hidden place, the most hidden one is the one on my
waist and on my boobs
What do you find attractive in a man?
I love men that are simple. I don’t like men that are too
loud, I love it simple
When did you get into music?
I started music professionally four years back but I’ve
not released an album yet. I’ve not really been serious
with my music because the movies took over but I’ve
released two videos, Time No Dey and Nyem something
Are you currently in a relationship?
I’m single and not searching
Have you ever done a movie outside Nigeria?
Yes, I have, in South Africa. I did the movie last year
but it’s not out yet
How do you
handle your
male
admirers?
They’re not
easy to
handle but I
handle them
well enough.
In this kind
of job, you
have to be
strong and
bold
because if
you’re not,
they’ll just
mess you
up. So, I
handle them
perfectly. I
try not to be
insulting in
as much as
some of them are very unbearable. Those that are
unbearable, you just try and be subtle and manage
them with a good smile.
What of your critics?
I love my critics because if they don’t criticise me, I
won’t get better
Do you take to their advice?
I do listen but some of them don’t make sense. Some
of them are beef, maybe it’s somebody that doesn’t
like you, you didn’t do anything to the person but the
person doesn’t just like you. They did it to Jesus
Christ.
He didn’t do anything to them but some people hated
him, so it happens.
Sometimes when you read some things you know that
it’s just beef. You might not know the person but the
person is beefing you. I don’t care about what they
say. What I care about is I take from the ones that are
good, I try to amend what is not right but the ones that
I know that I’m doing right, I don’t bother
What is the craziest thing a fan has ever done when he
saw you?
Hitting my bum. Someone has seen me in Shoprite
before, hit my bum and ran away. There was nothing I
could do. There was a movie I did Open and Close. I
was a nymphomaniac in that movie, I had sex with
everybody around me because it was the story. The guy
said that thing you did in Open and Close, can you just
do it to me? He started whining in Shoprite, mimicking
everything I did in the movie, the way I was doing. I
just turned to leave and the next thing he did was to
tap my ass. I wanted to pursue him but I wore heels so
I couldn’t pursue him.
If it were before, I would have chased him all the way.
Another day someone called me and started moaning
‘Anita you’re killing me, Anita whine for me’, I said
hello, he said ‘Oh please, it’s me please you don’t
understand’. It was one of my pictures he saw. He uses
my pictures to work on himself and he told me. Mostly
he uses private numbers to call me so I wouldn’t be
able to call back. That ‘s why I sometimes don’t pick
private numbers.
What is the craziest thing you have done to a fan ?
There was this crazy guy that got my number from
somewhere. This guy sends me message everyday of
my life, everyday. Telling me how he loves me and how
he wants to marry me, till date. At a point I had to call
him and invited him over. I mean this guy has been
sending me messages for more than two years straight,
everyday.
My sisters, everybody in my house knows about it. One
day I decided to invite him over but when I came out
to receive him, he was nowhere to be found. He later
called that he could not face me.
What is the worst scandal of your life?
There was a time I was in South Africa, they wrote
something about me that an Alhaji and I were getting
married in America. It wasn’t true, I was in South Africa
and they said I was in America. Then I was working in
South Africa. They said that I went to his office and
his wife saw me in the office and embarrassed me.
They said me and the wife got into a fight, that people
had to come to separate us. I had a relationship and I
was very heartbroken. I’ve had lots of them like that.
Some people actually believed that story but there was
a mix up. That story shattered me at the time.
Why did you refuse a marriage proposal from your
boyfriend
A man cannot just come out and tell me to stop what
I’m doing because he wants to marry me. I’m not
desperate for marriage. Marriage will come when it will
come. My man will come when it’s the right time for
him to appear. When my husband comes, he won’t tell
me to stop what I’m doing. My husband would be my
fan and love what I’m doing, my husband would
encourage me.
Your boyfriend was telling you to leave acting for him?
Yes, and become a complete housewife. I’m an
Anambra girl, we don’t do like that. We’re hardworking
women. That’s the kind of blood I’m born with; I can’t
just leave what I’m doing. Marriage is not a do or die
affair
What about dating Senators, Governors and Politicians,
is it true or false?
I have friends all over. It doesn’t necessarily mean
you’re dating the person but you know how the world
is, if they see you with someone or you’re friends with
someone, they conclude you’re dating the person.
What more should people expect from you?
Lots of new things, it would be a surprise package.
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