Veteran Nigerian actress, filmmaker and writer, Steph-Nora Okere has revealed some challenges she has faced for being good at the character or role she played in Nigerian movies.
The 49-year-old mostly known for playing seductive and antagonist roles in films narrated how someone once slapped her for playing the role of a villain in a movie while recounting some of her challenges during her early acting years in a recent interview with TVC.
She said: “In the outside world, we have situations whereby people see you for the role you play. Back in the day, I’ve had experiences where a woman gave me a big slap on my back and said ‘you are the one, what you did to your mother-in-law, was that okay?’
“And I’ve been in a restaurant where a guy walked me out and said ‘you can’t sit on that table, you indicted a man of God’ and I’m like when did I do that, and I realised it in a movie, so those challenges are there.”
Steph also talked about her upcoming self-produced film Roberta which features Wale Ojo and Kalu Ikeagwu.
The actress was very popular in the ’90s and early 2000s and acted alongside the likes of Sandra Achums, Lilian Bach, Genevieve Nnaji, Shan Goerge, Bimbo Akintola, Oge Okoye, Stella Damasus, Monalisa Chinda, Ini Edo, Uche Jumbo, Chiege Alisigwe, Oby Edozie, Alex Lopez and Nkiru Sylvanus.
She was once married to fellow actor Lanre Falana and was previously in a relationship with Jim Iyke.