NICK MUTUMA AND HIS GIRLFRIEND BRIDGET SHIGHADI TURN DOWN ROLES THAT INVOLVE LOVE SCENES ONSCREEN

Actor and director Nick Mutuma has opened up about his 10-year relationship with actress Bridget Shighadi.

Nick says although he has been in countless films and programmes that feature romantic love scenes, he and his baby mama are not comfortable doing such roles now, “2008 I was in Tabasamu and played a role where I was dating a sugar mummy, at the time, it was tricky and there was a lot of tension, my grandmother didn’t like it. I was in the university and she didn’t understand why I was doing it on TV.

But for me it was important, I explain to them that I was acting and it was not real life. Most things on TV are mechanical so we have to pretend to make it real. Me and Bridget have been together for a long time and now she is acting in Maria as Sophia, initially, it was an issue when I played certain roles.

Right now, we don’t do some roles because of the respect we have for each other and what we want to build as a couple. As a man acting those roles was fun but now imagining my partner doing the same thing, there is that double standard, but at least I’m honest.”

He says he still receives DMs from chicks but avoids looking at them, “If I say I don’t get tempted it’s a lie, as men we have a wondering eye.”