Prominent Nigerian actress, Jaiye Kuti, has said that her husband, Lanre Kuti, has admonished her to kiss properly in films.
She said this in an interview she granted The Nation on her husband’s perception of script handling by actors in Nigeria.
Kuti told The Nation when asked about her husband of 24 years, who is the Chief Executive Officer of C.Ray Company Limited: “Ah, Mr. Kuti.
“Mr. Kuti is an Ijebu man.
“We’ve been married since the year 2000.
“I had my first child, Mayowa, in 2001.
“And when I was going to come into the industry, I told my husband and I was like, well, I was done with the paid employment.
“I said I can’t do all this paid employment anymore.
“Maybe you set me up or something.
“Then he asked, okay, is there not something that you would like to do or love to do by yourself?
“And I said, I wanted to go into acting, but you would not want me because you would say I’m married.
“He said, hey, now you’re talking about your destiny.
“So you should go and find a way, you know, to start doing it.
“So I went for an audition.
“I got a script.
“And then, of course, my baby was, my Mayowa was still little.
“So I needed somebody to take care of her for me.
“So my husband was supporting me in that area.
“So, from that time, I’ve been getting that support.
“The only thing my husband would say is don’t spoil my name.
“So you have to be careful with what you do, where you go, how you deal with people.
“And he has never complained about me having to kiss anyone on set.
“Sometimes he will advise that clearly, you people would just be kissing like local people.
“Can’t you people kiss in the way that we feel the love and all that, that you’d be kissing and be doing like this?
“When it comes to your point to, I mean, your part to kiss, please, can you just do it properly?
“I said, okay, no problem.
“Unfortunately for him, I’ve not really gotten a role like that.”
When asked that what she said contradicts her position that she can’t kiss in movies, Kuti replied: “I said I can’t kiss wet kisses, like dipping my tongue into the other person.
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“But of course, I do a lot of romance.
“You know, you don’t have to kiss to feel that love.
“I can look at you and you will know the language of love.
“You will feel me even looking at you.
“So it doesn’t really have to be that deep kisses.”
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