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“Filming King of Boys Affected Me Psychologically”- Toni Tones Reveals
In a recent interview with Pulse TV, Toni Tones who starred as the Young Eniola in the recently released series, King of Boys 2 explained how filming and shooting the movie affected her, and she sustained some physical and mental injuries on set of filming the movie.
Gbemi Anthonia Adefuye, popularly called Toni Tones is a Nigerian Actress, Media Personality, and a Photographer.
In a recent interview with Pulse TV, Toni Tones who starred as the Young Eniola in the recently released series, King of Boys 2 explained how filming and shooting the movie affected her, and she sustained some physical and mental injuries on set of filming the movie.
Asking how she was able to play the role she was given perfectly well, she said
“When you are playing a version of someone, you have a blueprint to follow, so I tried to stay true to that as much as possible. It was really key for people to watch and not see Toni Tones which is why I decided to put on the weight. I figured that putting on the weight would make me look a lot like Aunty Sola, the voice. The voice was a big one for me. I actually injured my voice box to be honest. I did a little bit of damage to it. It definitely wasn’t the safest decision. But making those decisions, putting on the weight, cracking the voice trying to imitate Aunty Sola’s husky voice and studying her mannerisms turned out to be rewarding.
“I was glued especially as I had never met her in person before so YouTube was my resource. Every film she has on YouTube, I have seen it and I started doing that two months before we started filming. So I had two months of doing nothing but studying her”. Toni Tones explained
She further explained that this Return of the King was hard for her, she said “KOB 2 was a lot more difficult than KOB 1″.
Toni Tones explained that she had to put on 40 pounds which affected her psychologically and losing the weight was also a tough one for her.
“When I made the decision to put on the weight for the character, I also make the decision to lose it before the film comes out otherwise people don’t recognize that work. I also try to do it in a really healthy way as well- proper dieting and exercising”.
Explaining how she was able to speak yoruba fluently in the movie, she stated that;
“When I saw the script, I went to my mom and asked if she would help me with my Yoruba and she said alright. When I was ready and went to her, she couldn’t understand them. But we had Dele Adetiba, that’s Kemi Adetiba’s father. He was our Yoruba coach. Half the time, I didn’t understand what I was saying in KOB 2 so it was really challenging. We also shot during EndSARS, in the raining season and other challenges. I remember crying on set because it was all so overwhelming”.
