I Put More Efforts Into Acting Than Hollywood’s Denzel Washington — Kanayo

Veteran Nollywood Actor Kanayo O. Kanayo has stated that the industry takes so much energy to navigate, specifying that he works harder than Hollywood actor, Denzel Washington.

Kanayo who was in a podcast published on Monday on the Honest Bunch YouTube page, compared his movie roles to that of Hollywood’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, emphasising that bad roles do not make bad actors.

He emphasised that Nollywood actors like himself, put in so much work to act and produce good movies unlike what is seen today, pointing out that even Hollywood Legend, Denzel Washington could not put in as much effort as he does.

“If Denzel Washington puts in the number of hours I put in a production here, his colour will change to charcoal the next day,” Kanayo said.

He recounted that Americans from New York studied the Nollywood industry in 1992 and were amazed at the efforts and technicalities they put into production.

According to him, American Actors coined the name ‘Nollywood’ out of the seemingly ‘Nothingwood’ it was.