Veteran Nollywood actor Kanayo O. Kanayo claims to be a greater actor than Hollywood star Denzel Washington.
He argues that navigating the difficult maze of the acting industry requires a lot of hard work, endurance, energy, patience, and dedication.
Kanayo identified himself as a better actor. He argues that he works harder and is a better actor than Hollywood icon Denzel Washington.
In an interview with the Honest Bunch podcast, Kanayo compared his film parts to those of Hollywood’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, arguing that horrible roles do not generate lousy performers.
He claimed that Nollywood actors, like himself, put in a lot of effort to act and produce good films, unlike what is seen today.
“If Denzel Washington puts in the number of hours I put in a production here, his color will change to charcoal the next day,” Kanayo said.
According to him, American Actors coined the name ‘Nollywood’ out of the seemingly ‘Nothingwood’ it was.
“They have come to understudy us. Americans from New York came to study us, and they said guys, ‘we see some efforts here and there, these things take us about one month to sort, how come you achieve it in one week?’ So it was now a course of study for them, they saw the zeal we put in.”
