Nollywood Actor, Junior Pope dies in boat accident

April 11, 2024

Nigeria Nollywood Actor, Junior Pope dies in boat accident.

Nollywood actor Junior Pope Odonwodo, popularly known as Jnr Pope has died in a boat accident during a movie filming in Delta state, his fellow actors have said.

The news of his death was shared on Wednesday, April 10, by filmmaker, Samuel Olatunji.

He said that the actor, along with three others, lost their lives when their boat capsized.

• “Four actors, including Jnr Pope, fell into Anam River on their way to a location, and their bodies have been recovered.
• “It’s so so sad that our joy was short lived. Two notable hospitals tried their best to revive him but to no avail. We finally lost him,” Emeka Rollas Ejezie, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), posted on Facebook.

In a video he posted on his Instagram page on Wednesday, Junior Pope, who was on a boat without a life jacket, begged the captain to go slowly.

The Nollywood actor told his followers to see how actors risk their lives to entertain them.

He pleaded with the captain to go slowly as he shouted, “I have three children to raise.”

In the caption, he wrote, “See me lamenting… The risk we take to entertain you; crossing river 9ja yesterday with no life jacket… Na wahoooooo… Who does that ??”.

He was earlier reported to have survived the accident when doctors attempted to resuscitate him in a hospital.

Junior Pope has acted in more than 150 Nollywood movies and is best known for playing roles of a criminal, villain, a bodyguard and a hitman.

Fellow actors have taken to social media to mourn him.