Meet the actors of Becoming Abby, Bolu Essien and Juliana Oluwatobiloba Olayode.
Juliana Oluwatobiloba Olayode, also known as Toyo Baby, a sobriquet she got from starring as Toyosi in the series Jenifa’s Diary; is a Nigerian actress and sexual purity activist. She is also known for being a public critic of sex before marriage among Nigerian youths.
Bolu Essien is an actor and the creator of the new workplace comedy series on Netflix titled ‘Becoming Abi”.
Talking about how she met her husband at work Bolu revealed that her movie “Becoming Abi” is almost like a real-life story as that was the exact same way she met with her husband.
Juliana Oluwatobiloba Olayode,
You and Juliana are you guys close in real life?
The funny thing is that from when I was writing I already knew Juliana was going to play my best friend but we have not met before, we had not even had a chat but I just knew and we eventually found out that we were attending the same acting school in Uk and it’s been good ever since and even after the project, we still call each other bestie.
Though everyone is busy, we still do connect genuinely with each other. I also found out that she was one of the few people on set who really cared about me.
Juliana, where’s the sexual purity in your book coming from? Does it mean celibacy all through?
No, I would say that first, it’s from the relationship I have with God, I wouldn’t say its religious, I would it’s just because I have this, I love God so much and when you are in love with someone, you just want to do what the person says. You want to please the person truly and truly.
In our relationship with God, it’s difficult to do things to please God, its more of what we want from him so I came to a point in my relationship with God where I just didn’t want to sing his praise but really feel him like I am taking to my boyfriend, dad or brother.
I know that God has said that this shouldn’t happen until marriage and it’s because of the pain I feel because I was sexually abused as a child I know that if we have a sexually pure world there would be no rape, abuse, insecurity and infidelity in marriage.
Have you ever experienced sex for the role?
No, I have never and I don’t want to ever experience it.
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