July 05, (THEWILL) – Before and upon the release of Nollywood movie, Wives on Strike, the movie’s female leads Omoni Oboli, Chioma Akpotha, Uche Jombo and Ufuoma McDermott, flaunted a unique friendship that was the envy of many.
They vacationed together and posted group photos together from all over the world that set the internet ablaze.
Then the pictures stopped and the women no longer post themselves together as much as they used to. It turned out that there was something deeper that necessitated it.
Speaking during an interview, Ufuoma McDermott opened up on the real reason why she and the other women no longer really post themselves on social media anymore.
“Before Wives on Strike, Chioma Akpotha, Omoni Oboli, Uche Jombo and myself were close individually, but together, no.
“We bonded when we were filming the movie because individually, I had known all of these girls, but we just became closer spending time filming.
“The conditions under which we shot that film, God! We just had to bond.
“But if you notice, for some time we haven’t appeared in each other’s projects. Here’s the thing: I don’t like that slogan, “women supporting women”, because I don’t hear men saying “men supporting men” unless they’re trying to diss women. I don’t like to say it because we put too much emphasis on the negative of women being together as against the positive.
“So what we’re invariably doing is making people focus on seeing a group of friends together and saying “oh my God, this is wonderful, women don’t do this” so we’re trying hard to break that.
“Before now, when we’re together, we’ll film, put on Instagram, and people would be excited. We don’t do that anymore because we feel like we might even be giving the wrong vibes. We want you to find your compatibility naturally.
“We want you to be able to come and say “you’re a guy, I’m a girl, we have this project together and we can run it.
“It doesn’t matter what our gender is. You’re a woman, I’m a woman, we can run it together. We want you to find it not because you’re trying to prove a point that women don’t support women, we want you to prove a point that we can do things together.
“We think that them always seeing us together in their head is making them think ‘wow, these women have been friends for such a long time when women cannot (be friends)’ and we don’t want you thinking that.”
