Actor Baba Rex reacts to claims he used his late friend and colleague, Jnr Pope’s boat mishap to create social media content

Actor Baba Rex has reacted to claims that he used his late friend and colleague, Jnr Pope’s boat mishap to create social media content. On Sunday, June 2, a video of Baba Rex challenging a movie director who asked him to dive into a river went viral. 

In the video, Baba Rex who was wearing a white  Kaftan without any life jacket on, was ordered by the movie director to dive into the river and swim to the end to retrieve a treasure.

Uncomfortable with the directive, Baba Rex said the scene was not in the script and wondered why he was being told to act it out. A video was later seen of the actor struggling to catch his breathe after he dived into the water as ordered by the movie director.

Some Nigerians including actress Ruby Orjiakor felt the video was created to mimick Jnr Pope and how he died. Baba Rex received serious hit from Nigerians over the video. Ruby shared a video of herself praying for Jnr Pope in church and wrote

‘’I came to pray specifically for you “SUPER STAR (AKPA SWAG) Your Legacy will never be forgotten 

I also want to let you know that BABAREX @babarex0 your own man” has started using what happened to you as content ohhhhhhhhEverybody dey find their belle, no one cares, if only you listened to me

 

Again, @adanmaluke instead of feeling guilty for what happened to you and others, she was busy telling the whole world how you were begging her for jobs. I believe you can now understand better how w/cked the world is…

 

May the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of Christ ……

 

IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL”

In a statement released on his page this evening, Baba Rex denied making the video to mock his late friend. According to him, he made the video to pass a positive message to prevent further mistakes.

”For the REAL FANS and REAL FRIENDS

 

I was supposed to shoot a scene as seen above (scene 71 and 72 KENE).

 

Immediately I got into the set. I told the director.

 

I will NEVER step my foot into any river … sir you already know why.

 

Director : But the script says .. emmmm. How do we do it. Anyway let’s reconstruct it. I understand.

 

Rex: I said thank you sir.

 

Then again I asked myself what IF I was an upcomer who didn’t have a say ? that means I will have to follow the script ? ( Jump in? )

 

I said director please let me create something to pass a MESSAGE that you can actually refuse to do RISKY things on set and when you have a reasonable director like mine he will understand

 

God sees my heart. That was my intention and nothing more.

 

I will NEVER create a content to mock my late friend ..instead I will pass a positive message to prevent further mistakes. Together we can make Nollywood a better place

 

To my real fans and friends who saw the content from the positive side. Thank you

 

Big love”

Watch the video below