Popular Nollywood Actor, Producer and Director, Tchidi Chikere has taken to social media to pay tribute to Legendary Actor, Olu Jacobs.
In the post recently shared on his official facebook page, Tchidi revealed that many older guys in the east were against him casting Olu Jacobs as an Igbo Chief because they felt he knows nothing about their tradition. He further stressed that despite the complains, he never stopped and that he casted Olu Jacobs in those roles even more.
"In his Words"
"Many older guys in the east at the time openly wondered why producers preferred to cast Olu Jacobs as an Igbo Chief. They said he was Yoruba and had no fundamental understanding of Igbo Culture, they said 'Tchidi why are you casting Olu Jacobs for the Igwe role? What does he know about breaking kolanut and the traditional rites?".
"I smiled and I cast him even the more and in more roles. Uncle Olu Jacobs is the best, yes I said what I said. A gentleman to the core, never seen him loose his cool or get angry in all the years I have known him and worked with him from Ijele in 1999 till date, he was a peacemaker on set, he didn't give nobody no trouble, his age didn't cause him to ever have any sense of entitlement or look down on us who started watching his movies as kids while he dazzled as Inspector Best Idafa in the now rested NTA series, The Third Eye", Tchidi Chikere wrote and it stirred massive reactions from the general public.