Don’t see me as your position mannequin, I wish to dwell my regular life – Genoveva Umeh warns followers

Quick-rising Nollywood actress, Genoveva Umeh, has given causes she doesn’t like taking part in similar position twice.

Umeh, greatest identified for her roles as Timeyin within the film, Blood Sisters, and Zina within the Netflix collection, Far From Dwelling, mentioned she selected performing as a profession path as a result of she was passionate concerning the occupation, including that she bagged a legislation diploma as a backup plan.

“My profession has solely simply began and I’m grateful for the way versatile the roles that I’ve performed are and on large platforms as properly. Any position that permits me to rework, I’d clearly do properly. I like to problem myself. I don’t prefer to tackle the identical position twice. Each character is type of totally different.

“I picked performing as a result of I’m extraordinarily enthusiastic about it. It was virtually as if I couldn’t shake it. Basically, I realised that it was one thing that made me the happiest. Though, I assumed it was a interest. I figured that I used to be actually gifted and I used to be actually enthusiastic about it.

“For my legislation diploma, I needed it for backup as a result of on the finish of the day, I’m a first-generation immigrant and I perceive how onerous my dad and mom labored to get me to the UK. I didn’t wish to allow them to down as a result of that might be too egocentric,” she mentioned.

Genoveva Umeh, additionally clearly said that she doesn’t wish to be a job mannequin to anybody, quite she desires to dwell her regular life, to not be pushed by the urge to make choices based mostly on public expectations.

She mentioned, “I feel my solely problem is I nonetheless wish to be myself, I nonetheless wish to do nice work and I don’t wish to get caught up within the fame. These are the issues I wish to give attention to.

“Additionally, as a lot as persons are actually impressed by my work, I don’t consider myself as a job mannequin. I’m not a job mannequin, I’m simply somebody who cares about her work and if persons are impressed by that, that’s nice.

“However I don’t need folks to connect themselves to the whole lot I do or maintain me accountable for sure choices that I make. I wish to dwell free, I wish to be myself and I nonetheless wish to do nice work with out the stress of individuals’s expectations.”