Veteran Nollywood performer Kanayo O. Kanayo asserts that he is superior to Denzel Washington, a well-known actor in Hollywood.
He claims that it takes a great deal of work, perseverance, energy, patience, and dedication to navigate the complex maze of the acting profession.
Kanayo described himself as a better actor. He states he works harder than Hollywood actor Denzel Washington and that as a result, he is a better actor.
During an interview with the Honest Bunch podcast, Kanayo compared his film roles to those of Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger, asserting that bad roles do not create bad actors.
He claimed that Nollywood actors, like himself, put in a lot of effort to act and produce good films, unlike what is seen today.
“If Denzel Washington puts in the number of hours I put in a production here, his color will change to charcoal the next day,” Kanayo said.
According to him, American Actors coined the name ‘Nollywood’ out of the seemingly ‘Nothingwood’ it was.
“They have come to understudy us. Americans from New York came to study us, and they said guys, ‘we see some efforts here and there, these things take us about one month to sort, how come you achieve it in one week?’ So it was now a course of study for them, they saw the zeal we put in.”
