Nollywood actress, Ruth Eze, has said there is lack of genuine friendship among entertainers in the Nigerian movie industry.
She lamented that the industry is filled with wicked people who are trying to ruin each other’s careers by any means necessary.
Ruth also alluded to the idea of actors, actresses and filmmakers engaging in diabolic acts in other to bring another person down.
She said; “In my experience, Nollywood is full of wicked and unbelievably evil people that wake up every day to wish their fellow humans bad. Someone that one has never offended would go somewhere to plan evil against one.
This is just because they are jealous that one is doing well. Nobody can have a genuine friend in Nollywood. They only want to celebrate one when one is dead.”
In other entertainment news, Nollywood movie star, Charles Awurum has said that veterans like him stopped acting in every movie due to the poor standard of the ones produced in modern times.
He stated this during an interview while talking about the little effort and resources new filmmakers invest in movie production.
According to the comic act, unprofessional producers without any training shoot movies with as low as N200,000 and that is not how it used to be.
He also claimed that actors and actresses pay the filmmakers to give them roles in their movies that will make them popular.
Awurum said; ”People just shoot movies anyhow these days. If you do not have enough money to shoot a movie, you stop. You don’t just shoot any movie. This is why most of us, the oldies, no longer partake in every film. With N200,000, some people will move to shoot a film. Actors now pay to partake in movies just for popularity, instead of them to be paid. And where there are no producers or directors that are professionally trained, they just take a space somewhere and they shoot a film.”
The actor further said that he is very picky about the kind of movie he partakes in now which is why people hardly see him in as many films as before.
”I have been shooting but I am not in every film because so many things are happening now. People are just shooting anything, any type of script that comes up. So, I choose what I do”, he said.
Awurum added; ”The industry is growing, most movies we shoot now can stand the test of time. You can match them with that of the white men. We are moving higher and as an actor, if you allow the train to leave you, you should not blame anyone or say you are being segregated. What we are shooting now is no longer what we used to shoot before; if you check the locations of the movies that we are shooting now, you will know that we have gone far.
Everything seems to be like that of the western world. So, when you act in movies that will not go anywhere, you do not expect to be applauded. These people eager to be on the screen are not trained, paid, they do everything by themselves and they still pay for it.”
