{"id":38227,"date":"2024-07-09T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=38227"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T15:45:12","slug":"osas-ighodaro-shares-journey-to-acting-and-strict-nigerian-upbringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/09\/osas-ighodaro-shares-journey-to-acting-and-strict-nigerian-upbringing\/","title":{"rendered":"Osas Ighodaro Shares Journey to Acting and Strict Nigerian Upbringing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oratokhai Jesusemen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian-American actress Osas Ighodaro has opened up about her early life and entry into the world of acting during a recent episode of Pulse One-on-One.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in New York within a strictly Nigerian household, Osas recounted her upbringing with a blend of American and Nigerian influences. &#8220;Even outside the house, it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Remember who your family is and behave yourself,'&#8221; she shared, describing her childhood as beautiful and grounded in her family&#8217;s cultural values.<\/p>\n<p>Osas revealed that her introduction to acting came during her teenage years, despite her parents&#8217; initial resistance to her pursuing a career in the arts. &#8220;I had to do a lot of convincing and crying, but I think I&#8217;m also stubborn; I&#8217;m a strong-headed individual when I want something,&#8221; she admitted.<\/p>\n<p>Her first exposure to acting occurred after attending modeling school, which helped her overcome low self-esteem. &#8220;The president of that school offered me a scholarship to take acting classes. I wasn&#8217;t exposed to acting till I was 13, then I took my first acting class, and I never turned back since,&#8221; she recounted. From that moment on, she fell in love with the craft and has pursued it passionately ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oratokhai Jesusemen Nigerian-American actress Osas Ighodaro has opened up about her early life and entry into the world of acting during a recent episode of Pulse One-on-One. Raised in New York within a strictly Nigerian household, Osas recounted her upbringing with a blend of American and Nigerian influences. &#8220;Even outside the house, it&#8217;s like, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":38228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38229,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227\/revisions\/38229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}