By Oratokhai Jesusemen O.
Actress Bibi Sonye has taken a firm stance against poor dental hygiene in Nollywood, vowing to take legal action against any movie producer who pairs her with a male co-star with bad breath. In a recent Instagram post, the actress expressed her frustration with having to kiss male co-stars who do not maintain proper dental hygiene and urged for higher standards in the Nigerian movie industry.
She began, “Nigerian movie industry, we need to do better. If you’re going to give me a script and in that script you put a kissing scene and you know that you did not hire an actor with fresh breath and you put that person in the same scene with me, I will sue your production. I am tired of kissing people with horrible breath. Let’s normalize not kissing in a romantic scene because what the hell is going on?”
Sonye further criticized the weak approach to oral hygiene among some co-stars, pointing out the negligence of basic hygiene practices before romantic scenes. “Y’all would be eating your egusi soup or whatever and then you’d come straight to set without gargling, without using mouthwash, and you think it’s okay to put your mouth in my mouth? I quit! No,” she lamented.
The actress called on Nigerian movie producers to conduct proper health evaluations of their movie stars. She also slammed actors who do not adequately prepare for romantic scenes. “You men are collecting one million, two million or however much you’re collecting, no problem. Yet you can’t go to the dentist? You go from smoking your weed or cigars, all those things in your mouth, and you think it’s okay to bring it on set? I’m calling out all the Nollywood producers, do the needful! Evaluate the mouths of those you bring to set to kiss others,” she concluded.
