Popular actress, Jemima Osunde has revealed that directors increasingly select skit makers above true performers in Nollywood.
Jemima Osunde made this known in a chat with ‘Rubbin Minds’.
“I’ve witnessed a situation when a skit maker was chosen over a real actor who could play the part.
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I don’t think any actor should rely on a single source of revenue. Acting cannot be your sole source of revenue.”
“I assumed acting was going to be something I’d do while in university, make an extra change to what dad was giving me,” the Doctor of Physiotherapy stated of how she got into acting.
I began socializing with folks who work in the ushering industry. An uncle who was in to entertainment told me to try something in acting or presenting”.
On the challenges she encountered while combining acting and schooling, she said: “There were days I was losing my mind. There were days where I would have lectures from 8 till like 12.I would also have a call time of 1pm .School is all the way in Surulere Mushin, movie set would be in Lekki Phase 1.May be that’s why I didn’t have a social life when I was in the University. You know when you pass through school and it didn’t really pass through you, that’s me.
Asked if she has ever been referred to as an ‘Instagram’ actress, the opinionated role interpreter said: “I haven’t heard anyone say that about me and even if they do, I cannot be bothered. If someone is employing me because I have a following on Instagram that is because they also want to sell their film”.