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Chioma Akpotha, Others Slam Netflix For Releasing Femi Adebayo Film Before Him

Nollywood actress Chioma Akpotha has tackled Netflix for releasing a film by actor, Femi Adebayo before him.
The streaming app had taken to its Instagram page to release the trailer of his latest movie.
It all happened that while Femi Adebayo was teasing his fans with a second snippets from his soon-to-be-released film, Netflix went ahead to release the complete trailer.
Following the incident, some notable Nollywood personalities slammed Netflix.
See reactions below:
kollatunez wrote, “Netflix didn’t even chill for Femi to open the fifth door on his page.”
chiomakpotha wrote, “@naijaonnetflix Guys like WTH! Do you not know what timing is ?😡 @femiadebayosalami had set the ball rolling by dropping teasers!!! People were already anticipating only for it to be messed up by the full trailer release here…JUST LIKE THAT?!
Do you not know what being strategic is? Kai.”
nollywoodcitadel wrote, “Wetin happen….. Femi Adebayo never finish opening the 7 doors (teasers) on his instagram page but Netflix don upload full thriller.”
hyrishtheebigdeal wrote, “At least una for align with the producer’s promotion tactics na.”
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We Settled Area Boys To Allow Us Shoot ‘Gangs Of Lagos’ In Ghetto – Chioma Akpotha

Chioma Akpotha, the Nollywood actress, has made a new revelation about the movie, ‘Gangs of Lagos’.

She revealed that the producer of the crime thriller, ‘Gangs of Lagos’ settled some residents of Isale Eko to allow them shoot the movie in the area.

Chioma who played Mama Ifeanyi, a market woman and mother of musician-cum-gang member; Ify aka Panamo in the movie disclosed in a recent interview on The Corner Shop Network alongside Tobi Bakre and Adesuwa Etomi-Wellington.

She said, “[filming in the ghetto] Wasn’t all fun. Initially, there was a pushback. They [locals] were like ‘No, you guys can’t do this. Nobody is going to come here. Then the other camps said ‘This is our land’. They were like show us some love. You know what it means.

“Afterwards, because we filmed for a little over 50 days. You know when you see someone constantly for day-to-day, two weeks, three weeks. So, we became like friends and then family to have them [locals] play some sort of roles in the film. They were involved. It gave them so much joy and they did it with all of their hearts. Even though they were compensated, they wanted to do it out of love.”

On her part, Adesuwa revealed that she was breastfeeding her son during the movie shoot.

Adesuwa said, “I have said this in multiple interviews that representation matters. And I like the fact that we are seeing more and more films that have women in strong roles. Because I said before, the film has the potential to shape minds, especially the mind of young people.

“And I love that young girls got to see women in powerful positions. And the fact that I got to play a character like that was so important to me because a woman is not only one thing. I love that we saw Gift’s emotions, I love that we saw her sexy, tomboyish. I love that we saw her fighting.

“There are so many things about a woman and that is one of the things that really excited playing this character. And at that time, I was breastfeeding my son exclusively.”

Tobi Bakre said the people on the streets confirmed to them that the movie epitomizes the true happenings on the streets.