Mercy Johnson speaks on why she loves Genevieve Nnaji

Mercy Johnson has spoken once again of her love for actress Genevieve Nnaji,
who she says is her role model. Speaking with City People magazine, Mercy
Johnson said she adores Genevieve and doesn't know what she can do that
will be better than what Genevieve has done in the movie industry
"I think I have one of the best role models ever. I like Genevieve like crazy.
I started watching her movies from the onset but I didn't want to be
Genevieve, I wanted to be Mercy with the motivation that a Genevieve
could give me. So I watched lots of movies. I don't play with her movies. I
don't know what I can do that will be better than what she has done. But I
just try to improve on it, try to do it the way she will do it and perhaps
even better to my own level. I practice like all the time. It is like a passion.
It is just where I want to be. I am alive and I am in my space. It was
paramount to perfect that space. I need everything. I watch everything.
Nothing passes me by. I watch newscasters reading there news and after
they are done, I sit down the way they do and read the news like that. So it
is practice and Passion." she said. Continue...

Mercy went further to say that her love for Genevieve has never been
hypocritical.
"It was never a hypocritical kind of love or likeness. It was plain. I didn't
even ever think I will become close to her. It is like I can meet her anytime I
want to".

On how she felt when she first met Genevieve Nnaji;

"Ahh! The first time I met her, my friend took me there. When we got to
where she was, I became nervous. I told my friend "no, let me hide in your
boot". And I did. I got into her boot. Can you imagine I came to see her
and when I got there, I wanted to run back. I jumped into my friend's boot.
So when she came out of the hotel, I could not see her, I could only hear
her voice. The 2nd time I saw her was on set. When she came down and I
met her, she said" "Ahh! Mercy, I like your movies" and I started crying. I
was in tears of joy. I said "Aunty Genny, so you watch my movies?". She
was sort of embarrassed. Before I met her, she had already known that
there was somebody who was crazily insane about her. She was really
nice to me, receptive. And even whenever we work together, she will
correct me and say, that thing you did, you could have done it this way.

Usually in life, you will know somebody, who is more than you. Give him or
her that respect. You can't fight a battle you can't win. It does not make
any sense. If somebody is much more bigger than you, there is nothing as
big as you admitting it and hearing it from that person. I didn't come into
the picture to compete with anybody. I came to learn, do it well, make it
and be there" she said