For most of the past three years, if you include the 11 months she spent on set in Iperindo, a tiny town in Osun, she has become the punching bag for an old kind of anger that has recently taken up a bolder form – a backlash against the feminist agenda that has been rising in Nollywood for the past half a decade at least.
On Showmax’s hit series, Wura, Gomez plays Wura Amoo-Adeleke, a savvy businesswoman at the helm of a diamond mining company. As with many capitalist baronesses, her hand is soiled from the demands of staying rich, in this case in a male-dominated industry.
“For the longest, I have been wanting something really challenging,” she told Pulse recently. “A character that was deeper than what was on the surface. Something that will get Nigerians talking, and them, just seeing how difficult it would be to get into this character.”
