Top Nollywood actress, Genevieve Nnaji has been selected to feature in the big screen adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a yellow sun.

Genevieve will be joined by other stars such as Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dominic Cooper, Anika Noni Rose and Thandie Newton in the eagerly anticipated film.

According to her publicist, the actress cum singer will play the role of Ms Adebayo, a professor who develops a flirtatious relationship with her colleague Mr Odenigbo (Ejiofor).

Half of a Yellow Sun will be produced by British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA, winning producer, Andrea Calderwood and directed by Biyi Bandele.

Chimamanda’s half of a yellow sun novel centers on the Nigerian civil war and was published in 2006.

blabber15: I hope that she will play the role well. It would be very unfortunate if that great storyline was ruined by poor acting.

blabber15: I hope that she will play the role well. It would be very unfortunate if that great storyline was ruined by poor acting.

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NRI PRIEST: Lets face it; genevieve is an average actor and she doesnt have the depth nor schooling to pull such HOLLYWOOD role off! She better go and start a thorough research so she doesnt embarrass Nigeria. She will be coming up with a fine nollywood star in the person of Chiwetel Ejioffor ! Nigerian education system is in the toilets!! Graduates cant even articulate themselves, convincingly ! Its a SHAME! This country has nothing to be proud of! All their great minds were schooled abroad!

macob: you are talking rubbish man! come to Naija and see d myriad of talents here. Gene is good and can represent Naija anywia in d world. dont be ridiculous man! if u r not proud of dis country, u can change, i dont tink we even need u here. stop being pessimistic about us. we can get there, we'll get there.

macob: you are talking rubbish man! come to Naija and see d myriad of talents here. Gene is good and can represent Naija anywia in d world. dont be ridiculous man! if u r not proud of dis country, u can change, i dont tink we even need u here. stop being pessimistic about us. we can get there, we'll get there.

Mmuo Okija:

Dude, sadly, Genevieve is not fit for even a b-rated hollywood movie let alone being on a box-office movie. No Nigerian actor/actress is of that pedigree (IMO).

All they can do are short films at best.

I also hope she can pull this movie off. In hollywood, actors/resses have to go and carry out a research on the character they will be playing, learn speech patterns, mannerisms and alot more in other to be able to pull off the character as close to the real thing as possible. Case in point was The mandela movie with Morgan freeman (Invictus) and the Idi Amin movie with Forrest Wittaker (Last King of scotland).

I hope say she is not depending on her weak arse generic UK/US phone to pull off this movie.

I hope that she will play the role well. It would be very unfortunate if that great storyline was ruined by poor acting.

Lets face it; genevieve is an average actor and she doesnt have the depth nor schooling to pull such HOLLYWOOD role off! She better go and start a thorough research so she doesnt embarrass Nigeria. She will be coming up with a fine nollywood star in the person of Chiwetel Ejioffor ! Nigerian education system is in the toilets!! Graduates cant even articulate themselves, convincingly ! Its a SHAME! This country has nothing to be proud of! All their great minds were schooled abroad!

Limaoscar:

Dude, You already lied by saying Chiwetel Ejioffor is a nollywood star....how do you expect me to read any other crap you type out on this subject...huh

afam4eva: This is goood for Nollywood. I'm sure Genevieve will not disappoint.

NRI PRIEST:

Nop,this is a HOLLYWOOD class movie! Genevieve is not in that class and will never be because she lacks such orientation and training!

afam4eva:
Are you saying this as someone who has orientation and training? You're not better than the people who picked her for the role considering the fact that they must have seen her work. So, they know she's capable. We musn't look down at anything Nigerian just to score some cheap points biko.

afam4eva:
Are you saying this as someone who has orientation and training? You're not better than the people who picked her for the role considering the fact that they must have seen her work. So, they know she's capable. We musn't look down at anything Nigerian just to score some cheap points biko.

NRI PRIEST:

Come on dude, am not here to score any cheap point but we must call a spade what it is. Am sure you watch hollywood and nollywood movies alike and you will not swear genny has what it takes to break into the industry. Stephnie Okereke went for an audition in new york after she graduated from a film school in california and they asked her if she has ever acted before and she said she has been in over 100 movies and they started laughing and asked what age was ? Dude, 90% of nigerian actors/actresses cant even speak a clear,free flowing english because our schools are like a shiit dump where they raise block heads!
Ghanian actresses are way better than what 150 million Nigerians can produce. Nigeria doesnt have the institution to produce top class actors like Ghana talk more of frea.king AMERICA! The only thing we nigerians do best is bribery,corruption,stealing,pushing drugs,defrauding the American healthcare system and nothing more! Nigeria is a VERY WICKED NATION that must keep surfering until who knows.

Mmuo Okija:

She was prolly picked for the role on the insistence of Chiamanda Adchie. . Last I heard they were looking at Thandie Newton to play the part that has prolly been given to Genevieve.

I hope we dont use local content to kill a promising movie adaption of a classic book.

I would be disappointed if this movie dosent make it ateast into the french film festival.

Mmuo Okija:

Hmmm. . .

Let me say "Oh Baby! I'm c(u)mming"

Oh baby, I'm cumming. . . . I'm cumming inside you.

afam4eva:
The bolded is where the problem lie. You equate speaking good english with being a good actor? Dude, tell me something else. How come the english deficient latinos in hollywood are making it and an igbo lady, Genevieve cannot make in a movie set in Igbo Nigeria.