Movies have the tendency or capacity to help people feel better.- Rekiyat Ibrahim Attah, Veteran Nollywood Actress

 'Rape cases have  gone up, it took a pandemic like this  to see how relatable these issues could be'

Rekiyat Ibrahim Attah is a Nollywood actress with numerous fans. She has really endured in the Nigerian movie world and has no doubt  paid her dues. This is  the second section of the interview. The first part was published on the same blog adanneamos.blogspot.com 
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Story by ADAEZE AMOS

Excerpts:
Since movies are one of the tools that help to address social vices, do you encourage us to watch more movies at these times?
Oh yes, I agree with you that movies  are very powerful tool to fight social vices. But remember as an entertainer, sometimes, we say there is no entertainment just for entertainment sake. You want to be sure that someone learns something out of the efforts or out of the story that you are trying  to tell in the movie and all of that. And I think a lot of directors or film producers would say to you,  that something happened and they want to either correct a notion in the society or there is a personal story of someone that they feel  other people would learn one thing or the other  from. So, ehm, I think there is no doubt about the fact that movies have the tendency or capacity to help  people feel better.

It may appear as if we 've lost empathy, but we have not! - Rekiya Ibrahim Attah, veteran Nollywood actress

Her face is in fact her signature. Take a closer look at her picture. Remember her? Rekiya Ibrahim Attah, a veteran  Nollywood actress and producer  who has starred in so many movies and soap operas. Did you ask what about her? Well, she recently posted on her  facebook wall that everyone should endeavour to be happy regardless of what is happening around us. Hear her:  “decide to be happy always. Never allow anyone’s negativity get on your inside. Be you!”

Those were her words. Adaeze Amos in this press chat took her up on  whether it is possible for one to be happy at these times when many are dying and no one is sure of who would die next?

 I would say yes it is possible to be happy! I always would advise that people try as much as possible to stay happy but that’s not forgetting the fact that human beings have their own natural senses. It is natural to get angry, it’s natural to cry, it’s natural to feel sad. And so, when I say that don’t let anybody’s negativity hit at your person, I would be referring strictly to the fact that you shouldn’t let anybody  hit your own self esteem. Because you need your self esteem at a high level to now be able to react to what is happening around you. For me, I think it’s natural that people get angry or sad about some things. But you see, you need a complete human being who is confident of himself or herself to react to some of those natural phenomenon.