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Casting Director Iyanu: Who Would I Cast As The MCs of Love's Direction?

Of Castings and Movie Adaptations

 

Every author dreams of their books being made into movies. Nothing can describe the euphoria of seeing the world in your head being represented on a page and the words on a page transforming into living and moving pictures.

I’ve dreamt of it long before I became a published author, and the dream has since intensified with the advent of movies like Redeeming Love, Someone Like You, and Loving Amanda, adaptations of Christian fiction books by Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, and Laju Iren.

I was looking through an author’s blog (LifeandLit.com). She shared the proposed cast for her books, and I thought it would be fun to share who I’d cast if Love’s Direction ever got made into a movie. Now, these actors chosen do not essentially embody the physical description or ethnicity of the characters in my book. My character descriptions were based on different face claims, comprising actors, models, influencers and celebrities. You can check out the Love’s Direction page to see the faces who inspired the physical descriptions of Derin, Julia, Sophia and Helen.

This post is just for fun but who knows? A producer might stumble on this post and Love’s Direction and make this wishful thinking happen. Let the will of God be done. 🙂

If you’re hearing about Love’s Direction for the first time, it’s my debut novel, a Christian revenge plot novel, and you can find more information about it and read the first chapter here.

Let’s get into it then.

Sophia Azazi-Onoja

 

For Sophia Azazi-Onoja, I can’t help but cast Ireti Doyle. Ireti Doyle is one actress with grace and poise and a sophistication that just screams upper-class woman and C-suite professional. She has a face that gives I crush my enemies into fine powder vibes. I believe she would totally embody (or in Gen Z parlance, eat and leave no crumbs) this character!

Helen Osipitan

Tope Olowoniyan
Ego Nwosu

This one was hard to choose. I couldn’t readily think of any actress who gave Helen’s kind of energy, so I’m stuck between two options – Ego Nwosu and Tope Olowoniyan. Both actresses are good. They can be calm and fierce just like Helen. All that’s left to decide is if they can rock high heels like Helen. IYKYK 😉

 

Julia Onoja

As far back as 2022, I knew that there’d be only one actress to embody Julia Onoja’s character – Genoveva Umeh. Her character in Blood Sisters, Timeyin, gave Julia energy. She’s a versatile actress and able to portray the crazy girl, swoony-eyed lover, and fierce, protective and vengeful go-getter Julia is.

Aderinsola Cole

Choosing an actor for Derin was hard. I bounced between Mawuli Gavor and Kenneth Okolie. I even considered Daniel Etim-Effiong, but they just didn’t fit. Eventually, I settled on Eso Dike. I’ve seen him play both the good boy (check out A Not-So-Perfect Match, a Nigerian faith-based movie on YouTube) and the bad boy and in both instances, he reminded me of Derin, so to speak.

What do you think?

Do you agree with me? Or do you have casting suggestions? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Till next time, stay blessed.

** I do not own any of these images.**

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