Veteran actor, Pete Edochie has said he began acting before the existence of Nollywood.
The 76yr old actor said when he made his first debut in 1985 in Chinua Achebe novel “Thing fall apart” there was nothing like nollywood.
In a interview with Afia Tv, Pete stated that nollywood came to existence 7 years after the release of “Things fall apart”
He said;
“I’m senior in the movie industry. I mean, when I did ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1985, there was nothing like Nollywood. By then, Nollywood was slumbering sonorously in the womb of time.
“It was seven years after that Nollywood came on board with ‘Living In Bondage.’ I went round the world before Nollywood came. By the special grace of God, after I did ‘Things Fall Apart,’ I was celebrated internationally.
“The BCC flew in here [Nigeria] to interview me and tell flew into America to interview Chinua Achebe. And Achebe said, ‘Pete Edochie gave that role an interpretation after my heart.’ Before he died, he was calling me Okonkwo. Seven years after Nollywood came and when I retired from broadcasting, I joined Nollywood.”