Why I Insist Old Nneka Is Not Better Than My Nneka, The Pretty Serpent - Idia Aisien

'Nneka The Pretty Serpent' is a classic Nollywood movie that in 2020 got a modern Nollywood remake starring first time actress Idia Aisien in the role of Nneka. The movie was met with a lot of criticism when even just the trailer was released. People bashed the choice of actress picked for Nneka, people bashed the way her Igbo sounded, and upon the movie's release in cinemas, and on Netflix, the reviews about the movie were very unfavorable.

One thing people kept on saying was that the original Nneka the Pretty Serpent was way better than the remake. Well now, during a new interview with The Will Downtown, actress of the new Nneka The Pretty Serpent, Idia Aisien is explaining how she knows the original wasn't better, and also explaining how she dealt with all the criticism. Here is what Idia Aisien had to say.

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Explaining how she knows the original Nneka The Pretty Serpent isn't better than her remake, and how she handled all the criticism that came after the release of her movie, Idia Aisien said:

IDIA AISIEN: We need to give ourselves, as Nigerians, the chance. Like when Nneka was released, and people said the old one was better. I would always reply, “I know you don’t remember, but the old Nneka changed into a cat instead of a snake, so I know you don’t know what you’re saying when you say the old one is better, you just want to be critical and don’t want to give Nigeria a chance.

Now it’s way better for me because I’ve just realised that in Nigeria, we are very negative, especially on social media. When we see something, we like or enjoy, we mostly acknowledge it in our minds and just scroll past it. But when it is something, we don’t like, we are compelled to comment. I see that trend. When you complain about something, maybe the actor, director, or costume, people are more likely to leave a comment. The ones that actually want to give credible criticism or insights are in your DMs rather than on your pages fighting for you.

For me, I think the fact that the first year, I gave the most I could. I couldn’t have done better than that because that was all I knew; that was all I had available with me at that time. If there were any issues, it wasn’t my acting, so if it was because I was dark-skinned or wasn’t evil, or as sexy as the first Nneka as many people said, it was not my fault, I gave the best I could according to the script I was given. The criticisms were a handful, but shout-outs to the platforms that support us such as Netflix, Prime and so on, have really helped our filmmakers and even actors because when people were bashing me that the film was terrible, half of the people saying that hadn’t watched it. Netflix posted a photo of me and put a crown on my head, and captioned it, “in love with Idia Aisien,” so that Nigerians would know that their comments were not doing anything. I felt like somebody stood up for me and was so grateful.

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