Oluwabukola Sekinat Ajoke Wright is beautiful.
She has always been a delight to watch in movies owing to her talent as a good interpreter of roles. Although, she became an actress long after graduated as an economist, Bukky Wright, as she is popularly known, said she got fascinated by acting and promptly joined the industry with a vision to make a mark.
One look at her convinces you that she has so much working for her.
Her appealing silhouette, acting prowess, intelligence, beauty, amiable character, financial profile, creativity, humility, charisma, kindness and unassuming love for all has earned her a place in the hearts of thousands of fans home and abroad. Though, Bukky Wright has moved on by putting the nightmare of a crashed marriage behind her, she remains largely unfulfilled in her love life.
The light complexioned actress got her major break with Wale Adenuga’s Super Story a few years back. Since then she has not stopped captivating her fans and admirers.
In the process too, she has created some of the most salacious media scandals, though she insists the celebrity media feasted upon her innocence.
In spite of a brave face and thick skin towards scandals and rumours, Bukky confessed that she had broken down in tears over a story.
“The very first one that did that to me was when they said I was a bastard. They didn’t write it that way but they made it very clear. They said I didn’t know who my father was. Funny enough, my dad had seen the publication even before I did. When I called him on phone, he said he knows why I was crying. He said he had seen what they wrote in the papers. My dad asked me if I wanted to allow things like that bother me, he reminded me that he had told me when I was going into the industry that he had asked me if I was ready, which I had expressed my affirmation to. He gave me the courage I needed to keep my head up,” she said.
Bukky remains grateful to Fidelis Duker who she said, “gave me the first chance.”
That was over 10 years ago on the set of Images. “That was the first time,” she said.
But she has also had to live with the memories of her first time out on set.
“The first time I faced the camera wasn’t easy. I don’t know, if I should say I was under pressure, because I was given the script, there and then. And I had to face the camera with the lines, and then, action! So, it was not very easy. But I remember sometimes that I had to go for audition, and I told myself that I’m going to become a star one day. I thank God, I’m not a star yet, but at least, I am striving so hard to be relevant in the industry,” she said.
Suffice I to say, that since that first time, she has gone on to do so many flicks that she can’t now remember all.
She has also tried her hands at producing – with flicks like Owo Ale (her first), 7’oclock, Agbeke, Temi Ni Nkem, Shaworo Ide, Omotara Johnson, Dugbe Dugbe to Nbo and a host of others.
But besides all this, she still finds time for a little buying and selling business on the side, run the home and take care of her children.
Recently in Lagos, Bukky Wright premiered her latest movie, Omotara Johnson, which teaches the audience about incredible things love can do in the lives of people.
And as an artiste who would not compromise on standards, she has used a number of Nigeria’s best actors to interpret her message in the new movie. Some of these include Chidi Mokeme, Adebayo Salami, Akin Lewis, Aina Gold among others.
When asked why most women in her profession often end with broken homes, she listed a number of factors.
According to her, some husbands are hardly supportive when their wives take to acting.
Also, men can easily be intimidated and jealous when they see their wives succeeding in acting. Other factors exist including lack of love, dishonesty, lack of trust, greed and impatience.
And as far as she is concerned, her own marriage, which produced two kids crashed because of one of the factors but she would rather keep it to herself.
On the subject of love and whether or not she has a new man in her life, Wright bared her mind, “I believe in love, but I very much believe in “live and let live.”
If a man shows me love and care, I will definitely reciprocate otherwise; he will also find me in his shoes. I have now learnt to fall in love with my eyes open.”
