I Got The Beating Of My Life As A Budding Actress – Omotola - Islanders Magazine

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Sunday 7 June 2020

I Got The Beating Of My Life As A Budding Actress – Omotola

One of the Nollywood most celebrated actresses of all time, Omotola Jalade-Ekehinde is in the news again. The popular actress granted interview to a national daily recently and dwelled into many issues. Omotola who debuted in a movie, Venom of Justice explained how she was beating by her mother just for calling herself an actress;

“It’s quite complicated. I guess then we were all working for the love of it. Money was not the motivation because there was not much prestige to it. You couldn’t just go out and say you were an actress. I can’t remember how many times my mother gave me the beating of my life for saying I was an actress. It was like a holiday job or a hobby. You couldn’t just tell any of your family members it was what you were doing.

To do it then you really had to be in love with it. For those of us who wanted to do it at the time, who really wanted something out of it, to make a career out of it, we really enjoyed what we were doing. We started with the home video and when the business people and traders started investing, it became better. At that point it was much of what you put is what you get.

Now, the difference is, because of social media you don’t have to work as hard any more. In those days, before the public knows you, you would have been very popular in the industry, among your colleagues and people in the industry. They would have been talking about you, that, there’s this new kid that’s doing well. Directors would have been talking about you. Now, nobody may know you and you have become popular on social media. There are so many people now that you just hear about and you are like who’s this person and you hear she’s an actress. What did the person do? Maybe just one movie. They are actually more popular on social media than they are in the industry.

That has changed the ethics of the game. In those days if you are coming into the industry and you are not a career actor, you would not fall in line. It’s unfortunate, You have many actors who have put in years into their craft, I feel so bad for them, and some kids just appear from nowhere, maybe because the person is popular on social media or reality shows. I mean something just out of the blues and they get lead roles. That’s not good.

We are now going from DVD to cinema, and it’s almost as if we are starting all over again. It’s a new kind of medium and you are taking pay cuts. It’s like you have paid your dues and you are paying over and over again. There are the major differences really.”

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