The short film ‘blink’ went around most Nigerian social media spheres. Some people liked it, some people loved it; those seemed to have been the only to two sides to the reaction for the short film, with more people in the latter than in the former.
Asides from the general ‘unexpectedness’ of the twist in the short film, the one other thing that stood out was the lead actor, Deyemi Okanlawon.
Since then he has become, to me, the ‘blink’ guy. You know what they say about noticing something: the first time you notice something/someone then you begin to see it/him everywhere and this definitely held true.
After ‘blink’, I again came across Mr. Okanlawon in the Ndani Tv web series ‘Gidi Up’, but it wasn’t until “ZR7: The Red House Seven” that I: 1) learned what his real name was 2) actually took notice of him.
Deyemi Okanlawon stars in the upcoming cinematic feature “In iRedu”, an African adaptation of Shakespeare’s famed play ‘Macbeth’. Watch out for him then., and watch out for him always
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He has to earn his stripes and he has not done enough to deserve a mention on this blog. Unfair. Just saying
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