Adesua Etomi covers Vogue April issue alongside 13 other Global Super Stars selected at random from around the world, for breaking barriers in a male-dominated profession, and also their contributions to their communities.
Adesua Etomi covers Vogue April issue with 13 other Global Superstars selected from Hollywood, Nollywood and Bollywood, as they speak on how they have been able to have a breakthrough in their various countries and are regarded as women who are very famous in their home countries, and entertainment powerhouse.
According to Vogue Magazine, the first shoot for the story took place on a crisp winter day in a secret skylighted studio in East London, and the gathering of these actresses (Adesua inclusive) over the course of a long, convivial weekend, however, feels like a sign of a different kind of political and cultural movement.
Vogue in their statement, said bringing the likes of Adesua Etomi and others together is not intended to make a statement about crossing over from the periphery to the centre; it is about the new centre, which is everywhere, and wrote this lovely piece about our Adesua Etomi-Wellington:
“Nigerian actress Adesua Etomi-Wellington can’t walk down the street in Lagos without getting mobbed, and if she’s with her husband, the actor Banky Wellington, forget it—a trip to the grocery store launches a thousand selfies. But unlike some of her cohorts on the shoot, she’s more of a third-culture kid, born in Nigeria and raised mainly in England. (She speaks in two fluent accents—Lagos and the British Midlands.)
She went to school in Coventry, studied drama at University of Wolverhampton, and then got a nine-to-five job with the fashion arm of a large supermarket chain. It was then that, as she puts it, “I can’t explain it—I felt I had to go back to Nigeria.”
That was toward the end of 2012, and in the past six years or so she has become one of the biggest stars in Nollywood, Nigeria’s relatively young film industry.
The Wedding Party (2016), a colorful and witty romantic comedy in which she plays the lead opposite Wellington, was the highest-grossing film in the history of Nigerian cinema, until it was eclipsed by its sequel, which also starred Etomi-Wellington.
In fact, she points out, of the four films that have done best for the relatively young industry, she is in three. “I love, love, love Nollywood,” Etomi-Wellington says brightly over tea and biscuits at the shoot. “I feel like she’s my baby, and it’s my responsibility, along with a lot of other performers, to grow her.”
This might not be the first for a Nigerian, but it is major for the Nollywood Industry which has improved over the years, and being ranked with the likes of Hollywood and Bollywood, is sure something we should be celebrating, as Adesua Etomi covers Vogue with the likes of Angela, Doona, Golshifteh Farahani, Eiza Gonzalez Hera Hilmar, Vanessa Kirby, Bruna Marquezine, Deepika Padukone and Lea Seydoux for the April Issue…congratulations to her