![]() ![]() I feel very safe.”īut there are no plans to incorporate the pandemic, or continuing racial justice protests into the series. Very strict instructions regarding wearing masks and the zoning as well. “Warner Brothers and the producers of the show - a Chuck Lorre production - they’re taking very, very good care of us. “We get tested every day, and some days we get tested twice a day,” Olowofoyeku said. Of course, like most productions, extreme caution is being taken. The second season is underway, and the series is currently filming despite the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve been acting for about 20 years, and I’ve always just had a tunnel-like vision about my career.” “I just focused on the work, and didn’t pay attention to things I couldn’t control. “I started hearing from people after I got the part: ‘Oh, it’s a Chuck Lorre show, and it means this and that’,” she said. Olowofoyeku wasn’t intimately familiar with Lorre’s previous work, and so didn’t understand the pomp and circumstance that came with the announcement of the project. Her screen career officially begun in 2004, appearing in guest starring roles on series like “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “30 Rock,” and “Modern Family,” all before landing the female lead opposite Gardell in “Bob Hearts Abishola” in late 2018. ![]() Let’s have some fun.’ And then Abishola comes into his life and says, ‘For someone in my position, it’s not a lot of fun.’ So I think they create balance in each other, while also still allowing room for them to still be themselves.”īorn in Nigeria, Olowofoyeku calls Los Angeles her “work home” and Nigeria her “home, home.” She emigrated to the United States in 2001 when she was 18 years old, studying theater at the City College of New York. So Bob comes into her life and says, ‘Hey, chill out a little. They both give so much of themselves emotionally and financially. “They’re the caregivers of their families. “They see themselves in each other, and then they see what they’re lacking and how the other creates balance in their lives,” Olowofoyeku said. But Bob and Abishola are a couple that viewers can’t help but root for. And on the surface, given CBS’ core demo as well as criticism the network has received over the years for its lack of a diverse programming lineup, the series may have seemed like a risky bet, telling a story about what American audiences would likely perceive as a kind of unconventional relationship. ![]() The series certainly arrives at an opportune moment, given the escalation in anti-immigrant sentiment that the outgoing president has stoked over the last four years. It’s amazing and so beautiful, and very timely.” “And I wonder, how I would take a show like this coming out. “Sometimes I try to imagine myself not involved with the project, but as an audience member, watching this on American television,” she said. For Olowofoyeku, it’s all still quite surreal. ![]() It is noted as being the first American sitcom on a major network to feature a Nigerian family, and also groundbreaking because its cast members speak in the Yoruba language. He then sets his sights on winning her over, undaunted by her lack of initial interest or the vast differences in their backgrounds. The comedic examination of immigrant life in America, created by Chuck Lorre (“Mike & Molly,” “The Big Bang Theory”), Eddie Gorodetsky, Al Higgins, and British-Nigerian comedian Gina Yashere - who also plays a supporting role on the show - is billed as a love story about a middle-aged white salesman who unexpectedly falls for his nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack. In the Detroit-set “Bob Hearts Abishola”, Olowofoyeku plays Abishola, a Nigerian cardiac nurse who meets a compression sock businessman named Bob (Billy Gardell). James Corden Sets Star-Studded Lineup for Final ‘Late Late Show’ Run Including Tom Cruise and Ben Affleck I’m not saying you should, but have you ever considered it?’ And I’m grateful for that because it was never mandatory. But her approach was kind of like, ‘I’m just curious. “There was an agent that I was with who I liked, so she was the only one whose opinion could have possibly swayed me. “There have been a couple of agents when I was in New York who suggested or advised that I change my name,” she said. And in her “defiance,” Olowofoyeku is forcing the industry to meet her on her own terms - although she admits that she has been pressured. Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji Natalie Portman was Neta-Lee Hershlag and musician Bruno Mars was Peter Gene Hernandez. If she did, she certainly wouldn’t be the first to do so. A Google search for the star of the CBS comedy “ Bob Hearts Abishola,” Folake Olowofoyeku, will result in video interviews like this one, in which the American interviewer struggles to pronounce the Nigerian actress and musician’s last name. ![]()
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