Colette Orji has fast become one of the hottest names in Nollywood and that has not come by chance or luck. The sexy light-skinned actress has talent going for her as well as the right passion to succeed. Since her first major role in a movie in 2004, Colette has not looked back and she has since moved up to the top of the reef as a sought after name in the industry.
Underneath her delicate beauty and subtle vulnerability lies a strong personage who has seen it all and not afraid to share it with people. Telling me about what would attract her to a man, Colette sounded like any other woman looking for love and respect.
“I love a man that respects a woman. When I say a man that respects a woman, I mean a man who isn’t too proud and too big to say simple things like ‘sorry’, ‘thank you’ and ‘please’. It doesn’t really matter if he’s old, young, black or white, Igbo or Yoruba. It’s like respect for women is gone these days, so if I can get a man that respect a woman, that’s okay for me”, she said.
Colette recounted her romance experience with a movie director, who could not stay focused on her because of too many other girls trying to catch his attention. She said the competition was so intense that she had to walk out of the relationship.
“At a time I thought I couldn’t stand the competition any more. Everybody wanted him for different reasons. Sometimes we would be together and his phone would beep and it was an alert that so and so have paid money into his account for a role in his upcoming movie. The girls were really doing everything to get his attention. If he said he needed a Blackberry, phone like five would just appear in no time, she said.
It was too much for me. He would bring someone into a film we were about to shot and I knew for a fact that person paid him. It was too much and these people knew you knew and they would be fighting and attacking you at every chance they got. I had to let him go because everybody wanted him and they were ready to do anything to get him.”
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