My British Trait That Makes Older Actresses Think I'm Rude - Beverly Naya

Beverly Naya is a popular Nigerian actress and producer, who if you have ever heard speak even one time, you will also know has British roots. Beverly was actually born in London, and moved to Nigeria later in her life to pursue a career in acting. Now, obviously there are a lot of cultural differences between the United Kingdom and Nigeria and now, Beverly Naya is opening up about one major one that often made her become branded as "rude" on a number of Nigerian movie sets.

The problem she says goes even outside the Nigerian movie industry and affects her relationship with older people a lot of times. It is the problem of different greeting styles, and during her appearance on ShopTalk, Beverly Naya definitely had a lot to say about it. Here is what she said about the issue.

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Speaking about what makes her often come across as "rude" on movie sets, and in Nigeria in general, Beverly Naya explained:

If I work on any project, whether it's in South Africa or America or wherever, like I love the whole first name basis. It's normal, it's the way it should be. But obviously, coming from that society to this one, when I first joined the industry, I really struggled. I'm not gonna lie, I really did, because I had to deal with the whole cultural expectation, even on set. Cuz I thought okay maybe it would be different when I'm on set, but no. A lot of things can make you rude: Like if you're not [prostrating] or you don't [kiss ass]. And I still don't do it because it's not my culture. I'm not going to be seen as disrespectful if I don't do "dobale". It's annoying because you get on set and you have to say stuff like sis, you have to say aunty. I've never called my mum "mummy" in my life, I call her mum. So when I have to call someone else mummy, it's the strangest thing. Like because it's going beyond calling that person "mummy", I've never even called my own mum "mummy". So I feel like a baby when I have to say that.

Yes, it is the culture. We've gotten used to it because it is the culture. But I'm just recognizing the whole professional aspect of things. I was watching an interview of Marsai Martin and she was talking about meeting Oprah, and she literally just said Oprah, and I was like [shocked]. This is a 14 year old girl literally saying Oprah, but I know, it's obviously culturally different. I'm not disputing it.

Yeah, greeting style in Nigeria especially coming from somewhere like London must be very hard to adapt to. I guess because many of us have gotten so used to it, we often forget that calling people "aunty", "mummy", etc especially when they're not actually your aunties or mummies may not be seen as normal to people from other cultures. It's interesting that Beverly Naya touches on this because it is indeed an interesting conversation to have.

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