THINGS YOU PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT NOLLYHOOD ACTRESS

THINGS YOU PROBABLY DID NOT KNOW ABOUT NOLLYHOOD ACTRESS - CHIKA IKE

Chika Ike, UN Ambassador and Nollywood actress knows her onions when it comes to interpreting her roles in movies as well as engaging in buying and selling. Having featured in several movies Since debuting in the industry nearly a decade ago, her dexterity in the interpretation of roles has endeared her to most movie directors.

Recently, the 27 year-old actress showed her stuff in a multi-million naira flick, ‘A Minute Silence’, where she was meant to pose for a shot with a live python. In this encounter, she narrates the horrifying experience and explains why she prefers to keep her private life out of her acting career.

She has this to say “I grew up in a neighbourhood where people could not afford the basic requirements of life. I saw my mother helping them when they needed help. I saw a lot of kids being exposed to fierceness, child abuse, peer pressure. So I learnt from my mother’s kindness to the kids and her gestures towards caring for others. I was close to them and I could feel their pain. Since then, I told myself, ‘if I’m going to set up a foundation, it has to be one that has to do with kids. That is my passion.

I’m presently shooting a movie in Enugu. We will finish the production very soon. The movie is entitled, Kleptomania. It’s about girls that has a feeling and spur to steal. This was actually brought about by a curse by her old mother while stealing her money to help her own boyfriend. The old woman cursed her and she started engaging in the act of stealing. At a point in the movie and in the story line, she had an accident and her legs were cut off. She became physically challenge.

I also running a foundation called Chika Ike Foundation which is geared towards helping children on the streets, giving them hope and encouraging them to become better persons in future. I launched it officially in May 27, this year, where we organised a party for over 3,000 children in Lagos. The party was themed “Educate a Child” and we gave out over 3000 Customized CIF (Chika Ike Foundation) school bags containing school materials, T-shirts, lunchboxes, note books and snacks. It was held at the Light Chapel playing ground. she said.

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