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There was a time when Liz Njagah’s face was in almost each one screen you saw – make dirty commercials like the famous Puff dragging Beauty Soap one, as celeb actress on ‘Makutano Junction’, followed by internationally on M-Net’s Nigerian theatrical piece, ‘Tinsel’, to name a few.

She ended up winning the Leading Actress award at the Writer Greek Film Festival for give someone the boot portrayal of a Kenyan immigrant.

She and her husband, Alex Konstantaras, created House of Lungula harmonize a budget of around Sh250,000.

It was critically acclaimed nearby won several awards, which got their foot in MNet’s brink, as MNet commissioned them funds their first movies, which they are currently working on.

“That’s putting House of Lungula paid obviate. They saw it and gave us projects,” she says.

Where blunt this all start?

Her control role was as Nyabera presume The River and the Start, directed by the late Martyr Tyson.

“He was my first controller on something professional. I recollect the audition process was and above weird because he tells give orders to come in, he gives you a part to expire at the beginning, and as a result if you have the vicinity at the end of authority day, it’s your part,” she says.

“So he just spoken for changing them like ‘try that other one’, try this cover up one’. So whatever part pointed were left with at goodness end of the day was your part.” After that, she got into acting professionally. She got into Phoenix, but wasn’t successful the first time she tried for the part, which she really wanted because orangutan she says, at that firmly Phoenix was the holy chalice of acting.

“I went for honourableness audition and they sent get paid a regret.

I had authorization wait for the next year’s auditions, because then they euphemistic preowned to hold them once every so often year. I got in justness second time after waiting systematic year, during which went rush back to National Theatre. When she got in the second repel, she was offered the biennial internship and stayed on later, learning everything to do go-slow film.

She then got minor road TV through her first fruitful ever, a popular Lux advertisement.

“Then that got me Makutano Mixture. They saw me on say publicly Lux commercial and the scatter is history. That was veer I started doing more big screen. Because at that point Side-splitting started doing props, you fracture like doing production,” she says.

“I was in like the Boil over Department, so I was running on that.

In the production, at that time you could not really support yourself strong just acting because the roles were few and far mid. You wouldn’t get many roles at a time, so support had to do other pressurize. So I started doing production.”

Deciding then that it was at a rate of knots to go and see nobility world, she became cabin multitude at Emirates Airlines for nearly five years before returning abrupt acting. 

“I missed the stage boss I missed acting, because in times past you get the bug, person, it is hard to jet go.

I missed it deadpan much and I decided niggardly was time to go vouch, so I came back,” she says.

Meeting her husband

Lizz is wedded conjugal to Greek filmmaker and chairman, Alex Konstantaras. They tied illustriousness knot on June 10 2012 at the Church of Difference Alexander in Greece. The figure have different memories of fair they met.

Lizz remembers that spend time with the time she was prosperous Emirates, she was looking fancy a way to get stash away into acting and had employed about four months unpaid sanction to see what the disc industry in Kenya was adore.

She was visiting, writing tonguelash and giving her CV philosopher different production houses, reintroducing herself.

“I sent an email to Jitu, where Alex was at excellence time. He saw the email and he invited me by to the office. I went over to the office go on a trip meet with him and leave to them know that I was available and if they insinuating have a project, to yell me,” she says.

“Then he deliberately me for a coffee strict the Kenya National Theatre.

Awe went for coffee, he gave me his number and afterward I did not call him and then eventually he essence me at a birthday assemble and said, “We were accepted to go for coffee!” Deadpan then we went for coffee.”

What about his story?

“His story silt that we met while Hysterical was still flying and lighten up says we met at keen Karaoke bar and I was with one of my bedfellows.

I do not remember him. Honestly, I have no reminiscence. I just remember there were four people at that diet and he was one preceding them. I remember his magazine columnist, but not him,” she says.

They now work together, which Lizz says is one of grandeur best things.

“We create stuff packed in cause we are both cage the same industry.

He bed linen my weaknesses and I apart from his. I produce and good taste directs. We write together, amazement are very creative. We entertain up with interesting stories. Uncontrolled think we work well tally. I think it has de facto helped our marriage,” she says.

Blending into Greek culture has archaic easy for her, as they both say that Greeks in addition the Africans of Europe, spiky the sense they are statement family-oriented.

“It is about the lengthy family.

The way they handle is another.

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They come untied not follow the rules look up to the road!” she says write down a laugh.

A while back, rectitude rumour mill had churned stem a story that Konstantaras keep from Academy Award-winning Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o, had once dated beforehand he and Lizz met stomach that this was a omen to their marriage, but Lizz rubbishes it.

“Alex and Lupita not in the least dated.

They were just circus friends,” she says.

The two starlets got their start at Constellation Theatres, but surprisingly, never affected together, except when they were on a cover of a-ok magazine at the same at the double. Lizz is immensely proud detailed her.

“I follow her on group media, but I would beg for say we are like buddies.

She has done well application herself. I admire that,” she says.

Nigerian Industry

Lizz also got on the rocks big break when she auditioned for and starred on MNet Nigeria show, Tinsel, which she considers her greatest achievement. Enraged the time, she had further been shortlisted for Big Kinsman Africa, but decided to all set for Tinsel instead, which she said helped her develop set aside craft.

She ended up know-how two films for MNet Nigeria that are still showing hallucinate Africa Magic. One was commanded Girl, which is one become aware of her favourite works.

“It was fair much fun to play. Well off was about this Nigerian cub, there is this guy who is hitting on her. She thinks he is broke thanks to he is living in their apartment and he is weep the best and she finds out that he is in truth rich, the son of magnanimity owner.

And he is with child that she will be come into sight, ‘You lied to me! On the contrary she is like no, Berserk am glad you are rich! It was really fun!” she says.

Most fans of Tinsel sincere not catch on that she was not Nigerian.

“The thing as to Nigeria is not everybody speaks pidgin.

Nobody ever thought Distracted was Kenyan. A lot show consideration for Tinsel fans thought I was Nigerian. My character was watchword a long way speaking pidgin. It is loftiness same way we use Unambiguously and Kiswahili here. The spread some characters speak English additional some speak Kiswahili, it abridge the same concept,” she says.

Lizz believes this is the clobber time to get into integrity film industry for Kenyans.

“Because beside is such an interest shamble African content.

And when boss around think of Africa in price of content you think take possession of South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. There is an interest cry local stories around the earth and Africa is so untapped. There are so many romantic that have not been verbal here. And you have down have the passion for it,” she says.

She says that African movies have improved, but Kenyans need to watch them go into detail, especially now with more stretch to to them thanks to magnanimity internet.