Director and producer, Blessing Egbe, has produced some impressive movies like This Thing Called Marriage, Two Brides and a Baby, One Room and Lekki Wives. Her latest effort, which was premiered recently at the Filmhouse IMAX Cinemas in Lekki, Lagos, is called The Women.
The University of Calabar graduate, however, says she doesn’t take criticisms from her husband lightly, though she will always ask for his honest opinions.
“My husband is the executive producer and my first critic. When I want money, I go to meet him or my sister. He watches my movies and gives me his opinions. We quarrel at times when he gives opinions. To me, it looks like he does not see things from where I am seeing them. I would just tell him to keep his opinions to himself,” she says.
Even when she finds it hard to agree with her husband immediately, she admits that she goes back to the studio to pay attention to those concerns he had raised.
“When I go to the studio, I watch the production again and probably change certain things. But I don’t take it friendly at times when he criticises my job. But it does not stop him from talking. He would tell me that I asked for his opinion and he had decided to give me. We are one, we work very well and I don’t see that as a problem at all,” Egbe says.
Her new movie, The Women, focuses on women. According to her, the storyline is not personal, but she can relate to it.
“I like telling stories that I can relate to. I like telling stories that women can relate to. The message of the movie is for women to be true to their friendship and to themselves, because women are very emotional. When a woman is going through a rough patch, she tends to just vomit everything to a fellow woman. Women discuss very deep issues, things that they don’t tell their husbands. It is now left for the other woman to hold it dearly and not use it against her when issues arise. That is what many women do and it is bad, evil and malicious,” she says.
