Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Derenle gets injured on set

They say that true artists suffer for their craft, but perhaps no artist has suffered like myself on this hustle of ours! The moment I got the script titled #PepperSoup from Grace Oboba Edwin-Okon, with me as the lead character, I just wanted to jump onboard! .

And yes, I jumped on in my gangsta mode! Whilst shooting the first scene, I was supposed to pass out but in a bid to make it convincing, I fell on my face and accidentally split my eye brow area open! I bled like crazy!!! REAL BLOOD!!!
All in a bid to make my acting more convincing, I was supposed to drop into a faint in the very first scene of the movie "PEPPER SOUP" but I guess I miscalculated and fell hard on a metallic object on the floor that pierced my face. .
I kinda blacked out for a few seconds and felt something warm running down my face...Truth is, a blood vessel just a lil above my right eye (an inch away from my eyebrow bone) was burst open and it was hard to control the bleeding!
The production team was stunned and scared at the same time. They almost called off the production but I refused! The producer wanted to strike set and cancel shoot but I refused! Say what?
First rule: the show must go on! And I was kinda lucky we were shooting in a hospital so there were nurses to dress the wound. Had to add some extra extra extensions to my hair to hide the plaster.
And I got back on set like nothing happened! Im in a lot of pain but hey.... THE SHOW MUST GO ON! And I finished this job with all the grace, strength, resilience and amazing character interpretation that I could muster!"

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