Sola Sobowale, a veteran
actress and ageless beauty, has admitted that there is no money in acting and
that she needs money to survive like every other working Nigerian. According to
her, actresses and actors are not well paid because most people do not want to
invest in movies, and movie producers mostly run at loss after producing movies
and never get their production money back not to talk of making profit from it.
She used herself as an example saying when she shot a movie for N5.8m 2 years
ago, she only made N3m back which is a loss. She also spoke about struggling in
UK to work just to produce movies because it’s her passion.
Her words after the cut.
On why the produce quantity
movies instead of quality movies, she said;
It’s a pity because you know
the answer yourself. We need to feed ourselves. I shot a movie about 2 or 3
years ago called Adayeba Ote Part 1, 2, 3. When I was tired of recording, I had
spent about N5.8 million and we had not finished editing. After editing, I did
not make up to 3 million. I thank God I did not borrow any money to do that, if
I had borrowed money what would have happened to me? I lived in England, I do
all the jobs and I bring the money back to Nigeria to shoot a movie because
this is me, this is my passion. When you talk about quality, where are you
going to get the money for the quality?
If she is fulfilled as an
actress, Sola said;
I am not talking about money
but you know something in life? When you enjoy doing what you love, you will be
fine. I am fine but I need money to survive. I want all my effort to be crowned
because I work very hard so I can’t just be doing it in vain
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