Leila Djansi Is Pleasant To Work With –Omotola

Top Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade Ekeinde has said that she decided to work with Hollywood trained Ghanaian director, Leila Djansi on her new movie titled ‘Ties That Bind’ because she realized that the award winning director is a professional person to work with.

According to the beautiful actress, who is otherwise known in Nollywood as Omosexy, “I heard two things about Leila; one, they said she is a very good filmmaker and two, people said she is very troublesome.” Upon her investigation, Omotola told NEWS-ONE while in Ghana, she realized that what had been said about the latter was not true. “I was a little bit cautious. Those were important things for me to clarify.

First I have to see her movie to clarify that she is a good filmmaker. Secondly, I had to allay the impression that she is troublesome to see if she is someone I can work with. This is because it is also a bad situation when you are working with somebody and the person is unpleasant. You just can’t work; it holds back the creativity because you are always angry. So I had to clarify those two things. I had her send me her movie. I watched the movie and I was clear with the fact that she is an intellectual person, I can work with.

Now I had to check if she is a person I can work with as a personality. In our first meeting, I asked her a lot of questions, things I have heard about her and questions I personally have for her and I found out that most of them were not true.” Besides, Omotola said, she liked the script of ‘Ties That Bind’, hence acceptance to work with her.

Omotola Jalade has been in Nollywood for the past 15 years. Working on Leila’s set was her first job in Ghana. She praised Leila, saying she felt comfortable working with her. “I realize that she is a very pleasant person. Leila is a humble person.

She is servitude; someone who likes to serve people. There is so many a time on set that she brings food to you personally and I am like that’s almost uncalled for and she does that to her PAs and everybody. But we all have a good side and bad side. In Africa, I believe we are all growing up. If somebody did something, call the person personally instead of putting it in a medium that would affect all of us as a whole,” Omotola said.

The new movie’s set wrapped up a few weeks ago. Omotola played the role of Adobea in ‘Ties That Bind’. The multimillion dollar movie, which Leila describes as her biggest project, also stars Hollywood’s Kimberly Elise, British Ghanaian star Ama K Abebrese, Hollywood star Randal Batinkoff and Ebbe Bassey.

Other stars include John Dumelo, David Dontoh, Prince David Osei and a host of others. ‘Ties that Bind’ is the story of Adobea, Buki and Theresa, three women from different walks of life bound together by a similar pain- the loss of a child. In a destined meeting, in a small village in Kroboland, the women journey together to redemption, love, life and forgiveness as they renovate a dilapidated clinic for the villagers.