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OC Ukeje is an award winning actor who exemplifies excellence in the roles he plays. He once confessed to getting aroused while kissing an actress on the set of a movie. OC who was forced to audition for a role in the first stage play he partook in confesses that he was forced to go into acting.
He made this known on Live Your Dreams Africa, an personal development platform on Facebook.
According to him: ”My break into acting came when I was more or less forced by IK Osakioduwa to audition for a role in a stage play. To my surprise, I got the lead role and got fantastic reviews for my performance on campus as well as at the showing at the MUSON center.It was this singular play that got me on the team of Rhythm of The Black man led by the visionary, Dozie Atueyi.”
“They had seen my performance at the MUSON and approached me to be part of the many plays they were putting together at the time.I was with Rhythm of the Black man for four years. We toured all over Nigeria (and almost had a stint in the United Kingdom), performing plays that brought to life several pan Africanist issues especially those that had to do with slave trade.”
He also affirms that he has a passion for music and was hoping to end up as a singer.
Hear him: ” For a vocation that I had stumbled upon, I was doing incredibly well but I wasn’t 100% vested and still had my sights set on a music career. I was actively looking to get signed on to record labels at the time but no deal was in the offing.I was greatly conflicted between pursuing music (the one thing I had in my heart after the heart break of not getting in for Medicine) and acting – that I had gotten into by happenstance.”