The Nollywood Twins Chidiebere and Chidimma are talented actresses and have been featuring in films for 13 years now. In an interview with reporters, they spoke about their struggle to the top.
Hear their story…
It is not always common to see twins who would want to take the same path in life?
We both went into acting because we loved and wanted to act. Before
this time, we sat and talked about it. We knew what we were good at
doing and it has being fun. At the moment, we are still on top of our
games. Acting is our dream and we are happy doing what we enjoy doing.
So, most times, we act twin roles and twin characters. Nigeria has not
really reached the stage where one actor can really act twin roles
successfully hence, identical twins in that kind of production saves the
day.
Have you in the course of acting done twin roles?
Yes, we have done a lot of twin characters and they were great movies.
Tell us a little about the movies you have done together?
We have done Crazy Twins, Jealous Friends, Desperate Twins, Lagos Girls, Broken Ambition, Revenge of the gods and many others.
What do you think can divide the two of you?
Marriage can divide the two of us. But we have prayed to marry twin
brothers and that our marriages should take place on the same day. But
we say this because we are just humans. God’s will definitely grant us
all of our wishes.
You have been praying to marry twins as you said. Have you ever dated any?
We haven’t seen a reason to date any perhaps because the ones we
have met so far have questionable characters. Sometimes, we noticed that
the twin brothers would prefer just one of us. We cannot obviously
allow that to happen. We love ourselves so much that we cannot allow men
to tear us apart. At the moment, we are waiting for God’s guidance.
We have seen situations where identical twins hate each other
to the extent of one taking the life of the other. What do you think
is binding two of you together?
Love is the factor and we cannot imagine death of either of us. The
other thing that binds us together is majorly the grace of God.
We had that your childhood was not rosy, how did you cope?
That online gist wasn’t true! Our childhood was rosy, our dad was very wealthy.
He was a philantropist. Although he was married to three wives, the
three wives cooked inside one pot. We lived like princes and princesses.
My father was indeed wealthy. The problem we had after our dad’s death
was that our uncles took everything from us and we started life all over
again.
But when our father was alive, we lived in a very big house when we
were growing up and dad didn’t forget to spoil us with twin clothings
all the time. He is the reason we still wear the same kind of dress till
date.
What happened after your father’s death?
Life became very difficult when dad died. We went into petty trading;
we sold pure water, bread and ‘akara’. We hawked on the streets to
survive.
Didn’t you get harrassed by men while hawking on the streets?
Men being who they are, some claimed they would help us. But we
discovered that they wanted to mess us up and we immediately placed them
where they belonged.
Having experinced difficult times in life, have you people made any effort to give back to society?
Yes, we have been having programs to help people using our church as
a medium. But we did a major one this year on the 14th of February; We
hosted the disabled people in Enugu and it was televised. Already, we
are building an NGO known as GB foundation to help out with these plans.
Tell us about your love life
I was once in a relationship but Chidinma didn’t approve of it and
she gave me reasons. I studied the guy in question and noticed she was
right.
I also do that to her sometimes. We are not jealous of each other. We only complement each other.
What kind of reactions do you get from your fans whenever they meet you outside?
Our fans, especially the children do not want to believe that the
characters we play in movies are not real. So they see us and run away
thinking we are real killers.It became worse when we acted in the movie
titled Jealous Friend.
In that movie, l played a character where my twin sister was killed
and l took revenge on the killers. In fact just recently, I met a Police
Commissioner who also called me a killer because of the role I played
in a movie!
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