Why I Hated Acting in Merry Men 2 - Alex Unusual

Big Brother Naija star Alex Unusual is one girl who is well known and respected by many for her candidness and honesty. If Alex feels a way about something, she is going to say it, and today, she's talking about her honest experience with acting in Merry Men 2 and how much she struggled with it. During a new interview with Inkblot Meet & Greet, Alex opened up about how her time working on that movie actually made her even drop out from acting school and change her focus into filmmaking because of the unpleasant experience she had with acting. Here's what Alex said.

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Speaking about how much she struggled and hated acting on Merry Men 2, Alex Unusual said:

I've understood that most of the time in the industry and forgive me for anybody that would feel offended. When it feels like things are not really going for you, acting is now like "okay, let us go and act". They have people that are there that love this thing, this is what they do. I went for Merry Men. Before I went for Merry Men, what I was studying was Acting for Film and it was a bit difficult for me in school considering the fact that here, I'm posting picture like I'm in Nigeria but really I'm not. Then we did Merry Men.

Every day I come out from set, my shoulders are down. AY was tired of me. In the restaurant, he will come to me and be like "Alex, why are you slouching?" I would try. The next moment, I'm back down. I just didn't understand why somebody had to direct me to cut and cut and cut different times. And some things, I feel like it should go like this but you can't argue with the director and I also don't want someone to argue with me cuz I know what I want to see. So it was a whole lot.

After Merry Men, I just went back to school and I went to department and told them I want to change. To filmmaking. I said "filmmaking, I don't want acting for film, I want filmmaking." I had to start again, and that is what I now did, I now came out. Since I came out, there has been this fear. I had to complain to Kemi Adetiba when I was in school, I sent her a message that "I don't understand what's going on. I would usually watch films and just enjoy it. But now when I watch films, I'm like 'oh no, this cut is not right', 'this shouldn't have gone like this', 'there's no continuity'", and she just told me, "It's the director's eye. It is a curse and a blessing." What I was seeing then was more of the curse. I could not enjoy movies again for a while. It took me a while. So these days when I watch movies, I watch it to understand the way the director was thinking and to see mistakes I shouldn't make. That's why I now watch. It actually shaped me. And Kemi was really really helpful, that one-liner she gave me was really helpful.

It's good that Alex realized early enough that maybe acting is not meant for her, and she should go into the director's chair because honestly, to act, and to take direction from people who you may not always agree with, it's definitely a skill. And for someone as outspoken and stubborn as Alex can be, that can definitely prove difficult on a movie set. So I'm happy the experience at least opened her eyes to the reality that maybe she's not an actress per se, but rather a filmmaker.

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