Pete Edochie

thumb|Pete Edochie Chief Pete Edochie MON (born 7 March, 1947) is a Nigerian actor. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his portrayal of Okonkwo in a Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. Quotes If you hurt the Igbo man once in politics, that is it; he will never allow you to hurt him again. He will recoil into himself and stay there. That's the average Igbo man. www.premiumtimesng.com, One takes a vow when one wants to get married, and it is for better and for worse. Not for better, for us. One will always think it is greener on the other side. That is the mistake we all make. www.vanguardngr.com. Situations breed people. When we were young growing up in Zaria, each time we went to watch cowboy movies... we would see them rolling tobacco and smoking. Most of my friends did not want to accept that they were rolling tobacco. They thought they were rolling hemp and so they went ahead to enslave themselves with hemp. They were all destroyed. I was part of that team but I didn't join them in rolling hemp because I knew that that was tobacco. "The Issues I See in Today's Nollywood – 75 Yr Old Pete Edochie Speaks Out", interview by Jide Okonjo, Vocal Media Seven years after Nollywood came and when I retired from broadcasting, I joined Nollywood.” [https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/pete-edochie-reflects-on-4-decade-acting-career/> The BBC flew in here to interview me and 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 “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 am 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 I didn’t feel good, but like I said I’m a Christian and I read the Bible. Solomon, with 700 wives and 300 concubines, was branded a man of wisdom . it’s his choice and for whatever reason he decided to take a second wife, that’s all I can say Of all the ladies then, I think Genevieve, she is really a smart woman, she sees me as a father back then when we act in films, although I haven’t heard from her lately I hope one day she calls me” Many women in Nollywood at the time we started acting film, have all left their marriages. It’s better or for worse, not for better for us For me, I mean I have a wife who has given me five sons. What am I going to look for a second wife for? No, it’s not necessary “I will not condemn polygamy, no, because people have their reasons for what they do, right? I have lived with this woman for the past 53 years. Nobody has ever come in here to say ‘Oh please Pete stop beating her, you will kill her No, why? I never saw my father beat my mother so I cannot say I learned from my father how to beat mama.” “I love women a great deal and I respect them. If I see any young man beating up a woman, oh my God. You know, I just think you don’t qualify to be a man, References External links 1314200 Pete Edochie Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category: Actors from Nigeria