How I manage my marriage and career- Dakore Egbuson- Akande
By: Mutiat Alli
……why I am selective with script-Dakore Egbuson-Akande
Hailed and regarded for her craft, Dakore Egbuson-Akande, an actress of vast and quality credit did justice to new Ebonylife TV new series Castle and Castle. In this Interview with MUTIAT ALLI Dakore who always act with unerring skill and has a way of throwing her whole being into every role she portrays shares her challenges managing her home, children and career.
Seems it’s your first time playing the role of a lawyer?
Actually, it is. I have never really played the role of a lawyer. I mean not as extensively as what i did in Castle and Castle. Going to court and all that. It really opened my eyes to more about the legal profession. I give it to them. I now do appreciate them the more. The lots of cases they have in their heads, the court sessions. It’s not easy at all. Much respect to the lawyers.
Can you take us into insight of the role you play in the series?
My name is Dakore Akande; I played Remi Castle in the new TV series, Castle and Castle.
How were you able to fit into that character?
Remi is a woman who is dealing with a lot of things; she is joggling a lot as most women do. She has a successful law firm, which runs with her husband. So, you can imagine the dynamics of that relationship. Then she is been pitched against her dad, who she loves dearly, but because the dad doesn’t like her husband. She is thus, placed in between. The work force too, comes in and all that. She had to try to maintain her sanity while running all of these. Remix character stressed me, yet, it was fun.
You mentioned you were on set for three months, as married actress with kids, how did you find the balance?
It wasn’t easy, I must confess. Taking the kids to school, trying so hard to get to location on time, sometimes I don’t even see my kids. I get home late and they had slept off, by the time I get up early in the morning to leave, I don’t see them, it was really tough. That’s why I tend to take time off whenever I finish a production, so I can spend quality time with my family. I need to be at home, be a mother and also a wife to my husband. This is the joggling we are talking about. This is what most women do, especially if it’s a career you love, like I do. But we make it work, in every way we can.
You seem selective in the kind script you work with, why?
Well, that’s true. Some people had said I do only Ebony Life Movies, but that’s not totally true. I was part of New Money, which is already in the cinema. That wasn’t Ebonylife. I did Isoken too.
Obviously, it looks like I work more with Ebonylife, but I have always been very selective with the kind of scripts I accept and who I work with. That’s because it’s also part of having the spirit of excellence, I don’t want to see a film that I have been in and cringe. Maybe because I was hungry at a time and I just took a script to survive. I’m not knocking anybody off, but I know films are forever, once it’s on celluloid, it’s there to stay. So, I’d be in the movie, I have to make sure it’s something that intrigues me as well. I want to have fun doing it and mostly like it something that I’d be very proud of when it comes out.
Ebony Life has the spirit of excellence in bringing that quality and projecting Africa positively.
Did you give the part of kissing RMD deeply a second thought, when you saw it on the script?
I did. I won’t lie, I thought about it. Then I said to myself, well do you want to do this? Do you love the script? And my response was yes. I went ahead. When I spoke with RMD, he said he is fine with it too, and then we came on board. We have a connection. RMD and I, we have been close friends. Our first film together, caught In the Middle; it was a very successful one. So, we are always cool together.
Do you have a new project at hand?
Yes, I’m working on my own project at the moment. It is going to be something big. Mind blowing. I obviously took a long time to get to that point. You know I like doing my things perfectly.
What are plans for the rest part of the year?
Well, I’m looking forward to the movie that I’m working on. Staying open for more opportunities. I’m excited and hopeful.
