Despite all the media attention on Doris' Marriage,Her husband taking off with her son and the alledged marriage to fellow actress Stella Damasus,Doris has remained mute! well untill now!
She recently opened up in an interview with The Nation
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Sincerely, I don’t use creams as such because of the harsh weather. When you are under the sun, you sweat a lot and when the sweat gets to a particular point, it creates a burn. So, it is better you don’t even use cream in the morning or afternoon. It’s always just good to do that at night because the weather is cool and you are indoors.
I understand you will be going to South Africa for a TV series soon. Could you tell us the secret behind this?
I would say it’s not by my doing. It’s just the grace of God. For someone to insist that it’s Doris Simeon that must be used for this particular project, it can only be God. It’s a new TV series, just like Jacobs Cross. It’s a lovely story. These guys called me early last year to tell me about the project they were working on and they promised to get back to me.
But from that time till last year, I didn’t hear anything from them. At a point, I thought they had gotten someone else. This is one thing I tell people; if it’s your job, they will definitely find you. By the grace of God, this year, I got a call from them. When I even got the call, I thought they were joking until they asked for my passport. They first asked me if I still have my South Africa visa and I said it had expired. Then, they asked me to send my passport to them. So, they processed it and eventually sent it back to me.
Why did you think you were chosen for the role?
It’s God’s grace o! Some people are better than Doris Simeon, but it’s just what God has ordained. I just thank God, so I would rather not boast that it is by my doing.
I’ve seen the script and the story line is fantastic. I couldn’t drop the script until I finished reading it. When I finished reading it yesterday, I told my younger ones that by the time they shoot this movie, it should just blow out to Hollywood, not even our Idumota here (laughs). Hopefully, that’s where it’s going to.
What role are you playing in the series?
It’s a story about a family, where the children are raised in a spoilt way. The children grow up to spend lavishly and then one of them gets married. The person he gets married to is the character I’m playing. In-between the story, they all have secrets that they are now revealing. Meanwhile, there is someone in that family who wants to revenge and that is the character I am playing. I have to revenge because of what their father has done to my own family.
Could you recall ever revenging in real life?
No. I wasn’t brought up that way and one thing I always tell my younger ones is that God, who created us, forgives our sins every blessed day; so, why won’t we forgive one another. What is the worst thing that somebody can do to you? Maybe someone will kill your child, brother, mother or someone very close to you. If you then revenge by killing that person, will that make you feel fulfilled? I would rather leave the fight for God. It might hurt and, therefore, hard to forget and forgive, but you have to find a way to forget it and move on. This is because if you don’t forget and forgive, you won’t move forward in life. I would rather forget and focus on my future.
